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Title: Weird EBay Scam Auction Tonight?
Post by: welovecats on June 21, 2022, 10:33:38 PM
Did anybody else catch the super weird eBay auction tonight where there was a brown bass and a 76 koa series 1? Descriptions had links to low "buy it now" prices where you were supposed to send your name address and email and "wait to hear back" but not bid. Ostensibly a pawn shop closing its doors with hundreds of items including other rare guitars and pro audio gear? Then poof and everything disappeared! So strange. Then the seller name morphed into a British bedding company.
Title: Re: Weird EBay Scam Auction Tonight?
Post by: jazzyvee on June 21, 2022, 10:57:05 PM
Hmmm(https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/images/2021-02/020121_shaggy_superbowl_2web.jpg)
https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/images/2021-02/020121_shaggy_superbowl_2web.jpg (https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/images/2021-02/020121_shaggy_superbowl_2web.jpg) ???
Title: Re: Weird EBay Scam Auction Tonight?
Post by: gearhed289 on June 22, 2022, 08:12:47 AM
I think I know the type of auction you're talking about. There have been a lot of those in the past year or so. "Too good to be true" prices, then scroll through the pictures and you get to a graphic saying "Do not bid. Bids will be cancelled. Email us here....." They seem to somehow hijack legitimate eBay user accounts until they get shut down. I report these every time I see them. Total scam.
Title: Re: Weird EBay Scam Auction Tonight?
Post by: BeenDown139 on June 22, 2022, 08:50:04 AM
these pop up from time to time, same old scam, maybe someone is stupid enough to fall for it (kinda like those home title lock scams - i guess ya only gotta get one sucker once in a while to keep the scam going).  here's one of a multitude of threads about it:

https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=26750.msg271960;topicseen#msg271960