Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20

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Subject: [Leica] OT: eBay
From: leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Tue Mar 20 06:55:35 2007
References: <NGEGLGICHGNIDFELPPDBOEIKKLAA.jsluss@hughes.net>

If a seller is advising that the deal should happen outside ebay, it's a 
scam attempt, period. If it's too good to be true, then it's not good. 
Forget it and continue to raise funds :-)
D.


>Yesterday,19 March 07 a DMR and a R8 with a DMR were advertised for 1,000
>GBP (2,000 US) each. The individual ?selling? the items refused to accept
>bids, rather he wanted to be contacted by e-mail. Needless to say it was a
>scam. The ?seller? had a 99.1% positive responses with about 1,000 sales. I
>believe that someone had gotten a hold of this persons eBay sellers password
>and was using his site for the scam. The items were only listed for 24
>hours. An eBay confirmation was sent from a msn address.
>I wish it were true because I really want a DMR but alas.
>
>John




In reply to: Message from jsluss at hughes.net (John D. Sluss) ([Leica] OT: eBay)