YES you are being scammed. I just got jobbed out of a g
from somebody send a VERY correct looking "second chance" offer from somebody
in London on a machinedrum.
Don't EVER pay with Western Union, there is no backup for you
if you get screwed.
Also, a lot of times people will send a "square trade" dealer
authentication, but if you enter their number on squaretrade.com they will tell
you they have "no record of that user".
Apparently, it's easy to hack peoples accounts on eBay, that's
how they send the correct information about what your high bid was. eBay
doesn't care, hasn't even responded to my 5 or 6 emails to them.
later,
-0behn desu0-
----- Original Message -----From: John PascuzziSent: Friday, May 12, 2006 1:26 PMSubject: Re: [Evolver] Am I being scammed?I would be suspect of a scam.... probably not by the real seller, but an
imposter. My brother got a couple requests like that, and they wanted a
Western Union payment to Africa and Canada, though the items were in the
US. And besides, presetbandit's preferred method of payment is PayPal, and
nothing on that page says anything about Western Union.
Tell the UK guy you just paid for it, so he can drive to the Western Union
office and pick up nothing :)
At 12:59 PM 5/12/06, you wrote:
>I'm looking for "presetbandit" who just sold a poly evolver on ebay.
>I'm being solicited by a user claiming to be "presetbandit" and sent a
>very official looking "second chance" offer from Ebay, as the original
>winner bowed out.
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>It looks very suspicious and is requesting a Western Union payment to
>the UK, even though the item was located in California. I sent a
>Contact Member to "presetbandit" on ebay, but ebay said it may be
>blocked as we have not had any transactions to be speaking to one another.
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>I figured this person may be on this list and can confirm or deny
>whether this is valid.
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>Here's the link to the item :
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7412500735
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