Advertised a Car for sale on ebay and it sold to a buyer with 1 Feedback and who is fairly new to ebay. He had'nt contacted me to ask any questions..etc, just bidded the £1500 reserve price.

 

I send Email giving my contact details and the usual...etc and I get the reply back :

 

DEAR MATE,

 

THANK YOU FOR THE RESPONDS AND THE INFORMATION I AM REALLY HAPPY TO BE THE WINNING BIDDER OF THE ABOVE SUBJECT. I HAVE SENT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO MY CLIENT TO PREPARE A CHEQUE AND SEND TO YOU FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE ITEM . I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR DIRECT PHONE LINE FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.

 

LOOK FORWARD TO READ FROM YOU SOON

 

WALTER

 

Is it just me..or does something not look right here. ? Sound like a foreign translation, the Car is referred to only as "item". There is a "client" involved. Asks me for phonenumber, which I had already given in my email to him.

Sounds like one of those scams where they send you a dodgy

cheque for about 3x the amount, take the vehicle, asking you to

pass funds on to other people, only for the cheque to bounce!

DEAR MATE,

 

THANK YOU FOR THE RESPONDS AND THE INFORMATION I AM REALLY HAPPY TO BE THE WINNING BIDDER OF THE ABOVE SUBJECT. I HAVE SENT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO MY CLIENT TO PREPARE A CHEQUE AND SEND TO YOU FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE ITEM . I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR DIRECT PHONE LINE FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.

 

LOOK FORWARD TO READ FROM YOU SOON

Just send him the following e mail....

Dear Walter, just bring me the cash within 5 days or fOOOOK offff!!!

I would contact e-bay and find out whats goin on caus that sounds really dodgy like that crap that gets sent out about ownin shares in gold mines in south africa they do the same with this crappy translate vague stuff!

dodgy as fuke mate! tell him you'll only accept the payment methods that you advertised along with the car, and follow the usual feedback/complaints process of ebay.

 

Dear Mate! :p never heard that one before.

Thanks, definatly something not right. Have emailed Ebay now, to ask their opinion and advice.

mate youll get a slightly automated answer from ebay they dont help anyone try and fob you off with auto replies to everything even when you go through to contact us by email, thats when youve got past the is your answer here or here or here under general questions.

 

OR

 

some college kid will reply who works for em and he'll answer a totally different answer to your question..

 

Id just let it blow over and ignore it, claim your money back and relist or sommething.

 

Its not a learning curve because youve done nothing wrong its just theres some twats out there.

 

 

I pay ebay £800 a month and they do feck all to help me if I need advice or have problems etc

 

youd think theyd want to lick my ass to keep me happy.

 

 

If you want me to word something for you send me a PM about what it is and a bit info and ill do a good short sharp write up just what people like...

 

 

chris :D

Yes looks like yet another ebay rip off ****er! :mac1: You have to have your guard up on there

 

I got done for just under £700 last month the seller had 100% + feedback too and just because he lives 270 miles away I bet he thinks he has got away with it :nono: :xxx: :x:

It is a very common Nigerian scam. They send you a bankers draft generally which is either a copy or stolen and in the meantime will have expected you to foot the export costs and they say they will account for expenses in the draft! The next thing you realise is your car is gone and you have a worthless piece of paper! Report it to Ebay but TBH they don't do much about it.