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DEGAMO88

DEGAMO88

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MCDANIEL CUE ON EBAY

While perusing through ebay this morning, I noticed a very fancy McDaniel cue up for auction with a starting bid at $900. Interested in what the seller had to offer, I emailed the seller for additional info. Here's his/ her reply:

I will send you all pictures I have available.
The cue is all packed for shipping.
If you will agree with my payment metoth and you will wire the money in max 24 hours the price will be $1400us,
Because now I am in Europe ,
The shipping will be made trough UPS
express delivery and because I will pay for the shippment you will pay
the fees for the money transfer. The payment which I accept is Western
Union money transfer because is the fastest way to conclude a payment,
So if you agree with my terms please mail me ASAP.

(note: this is the email verbatim) What's so strange? In the auction, the seller claims that his/ her primary email account is disabled and that you should send all inquiries to another email address. While clicking through the seller's other items for auction, I clicked on an auction for a McFarlane Monsters playset, which then lnked me to a 2003 Hoyt ProTec (bicycle) with the same dubious message about their primary email account being disabled. After checking all their auctions, I noticed that this dubious message only appeared on high dollar auctions and these auctions did not offer paypal for payment, only money order/ wire transfers, while legitimate auctions, ones that didn't feature the dubious message offered paypal as a form of payment. I can't believe that a US seller would be selling baseball cards on ebay right now while vacationing in Europe. Notice too that the auction has been viewed just 21 times in the past 5-1/2 days. Strange? And why would he be dumping a $7500 cue for only $1400?

This is a second email verbatim that was sent to me by the same person:

I asked you to email me directly to this email...
Here are my personal infos for the WESTERN UNION TRANSFER:

All you have to do is to find a Western Union agent near to your location and wire the money at this address:

FIRST NAME: ANDREI

LAST NAME: PINTEA

ADRESS: DACIEI

CITY: ONESTI

COUNTRY: ROMANIA

ZIP: 5450


Please be precise with my first and last name
You can tell the agent that you are sending the money to a relative so in this way you should pay lower fees.

Thanks and mail me with your address after you wire the money so I can begin the delivery

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It's A Fake

The following is an email that was sent to me this morning by rsolar17, the holder of the ebay account that this scam auction is being run through:


Hello, the pool cue is not my item. I don't know how it ended up in my selling account. If you want to send me $1400 I will gladly accept it.

Rich

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Alert: The scammers are now taking over other people's accounts!
 
DEGAMO88 said:
If you want to send me $1400 I will gladly accept it.

Rich
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That's funny!!!! But hey, if you want to send me $1,400 I'll take it too :D . I'll even take 2G's just to be nice ;) .

Some things never seem to amaze me.

Jim
 
DEGAMO88 said:
The following is an email that was sent to me this morning by rsolar17, the holder of the ebay account that this scam auction is being run through:


Hello, the pool cue is not my item. I don't know how it ended up in my selling account. If you want to send me $1400 I will gladly accept it.

Rich

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Alert: The scammers are now taking over other people's accounts!
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Obviously the scammers have this guy's Ebay password. I hope he is not using the same password for Paypal. I had also contacted the seller whose account is being used...this is a total fraud! Nice cue though...
 
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Thanks for letting everyone know what you found out about this fake auction. I received 2 separate emails from different people on a Phillipi cue that i bid on and i didn't win the auction. I bid $1400 on the cue and it sold for $2000 at the end of the auction. The 2 emails i received said that i was being offered a 2nd chance to buy this cue for my bid of $1400. I sent copies of the emails to spoof@ebay.com and they investigated them and confirmed that they were scams being run on completed auctions. The scammers look at completed auctions and see who the losing bidders were and then offer them 2nd chances at the item saying the winning bidder backed out of the sale. There were 5 other bidders who bid higher than i did on the Phillipi cue and it didn't make a bit of sense to me why they would offer the cue to me for $1400.
Be careful on ebay!!! It's dangerous sending money to total strangers.

SCCues
 
SCCues said:
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I had the same scam pulled on me this week on a Southwest cue. Just received another offer from someone else on a different Southwest I had bid on. Is EBAY safe anymore?
 
ebay scams

If Ebay Really Wanted To Cut Down On Scammer They Should Get Rid Of This Second Chance Bull Crap.its Just Another Way For Scammers To Try And Sucker People In And I Have Had Alot Of Them.cues That I Know The Sellers And The Winning Bidders I Get Second Chance Offers On. Ebay And Its Policies Create These Problems And They Should Change There Slogan From Worlds Biggest Marketplace To Worlds Biggest Scamming Place! None Of Us Like Having To Cancel A Auction Because The Price Isnt What A Cue Should Get But Ebay Is The One Who Changed There Reserve Fee From Like A Dollar To Dollar For Every Hundred Of Your Reserve.this Policy Is Just Killing Business And For Those Of You Who Say Thats Tough If A Cue Dont Get High Enough Then Please Throw Up All The Good Cues We No Longer See On Ebay Because Of This Policy,i'll Bid On Them.scammer Are Now Even Building Up There Feedback With Low Cost Items So They Can Get That 3000 Wire Transfer And Leave Town
 
I had put a really nice Lambros on ebay. It didn't meet its reserve, and afterwards I had a few bidders email me saying they had received offers from another member to sell them the cue for half of my reserve price. From then on, I made high-dollar auctions private so the bidder's names were unavailable.

I had also put another cue up and right after I put it up, someone stole my pictures AND my text and made another auction running concurrently with mine. What I learned from that is to put my name in the middle of every picture before I put an auction up. Its more work, but it can help prevent this from happening. I recommend everyone do this when putting things on ebay, especially high-dollar stuff.

I wonder if this happens to other items on ebay. It must, and I would think computers would get it just as bad as us, if not worse.
 
it figures.. that is the same trick they use for selling motorcycles, quads and stuff like that... they first steal other ppl's accounts, thats what those emails are that ask you for your screen name and password and claim that they are ebay.. ebay will NEVER ask you for your password... if you ever get any emails that do.. send them to the ebay fraud protechion..

anyways.. what they do is offer you something at an unbelievable deal almost half price what it is worth.. and then tell you to use either western union (which you will never get your money back) or a Escrow company that is fake and when you send your money.. you can kiss it goodbye...

it is very common on ebay.. and most of them will send you an automated responce when you ask the seller a question.. same responce every time..

CHRIS
 
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