What's up with this Ebay seller????

[ben_brown]

Check out this guy....
Everything is the same price...$109.88
Everything has the same Buy it Now price....$1300

[cjj]

What's he selling? His command of English isn't the best, does he mean that unless you contact him by E-mail, he will cancel your bid? Sounds kinda shady to me...

[ben_brown]

It seems that I forgot to post a link to the ebay seller's store.
When I went back to do this the ad that brought me to the Ebay store was removed.
Yes...obviously a scammer.

[cjj]

Odd, a BIN of $1300. Seems to me I've seen a few scammers that use that number - or maybe it's the same guy all the time. I guess if it's a BIN of $1300, one should be wary just for that...

[ben_brown]

He must have had over 50 vintage guitars and basses listed and all of them were $109.88 with a BIN of $1300...
One being a mint DCM 4003....pre-war Gibsons....very old Fenders....you name it he had it.

[libratune]

This scammer shows up with his false listings every few weeks and usually on a Sunday. It's always the same drill, same wording, same typeface, different private email address.

I don't know why eBay can't seem to shut this scammer down permanently. I have reported these fake auctions to eBay numerous times over the last few months.

I also will never understand what motivates these scammers. I can't believe that anyone would fall for this stuff. Why waste the time?

[doctorwho]

... I don't know why eBay can't seem to shut this scammer down permanently ...

Simple: because eBay makes money even when a scam is posted ... if eBay had to repay the listing fees, the scams would be stopped IMMEDIATELY.

... I have reported these fake auctions to eBay numerous times over the last few months ...

I, too, have complained about these scams, even suggesting that eBay regress their posting rules to prevent images from being used in the TEXT area of an ad (what you see above is in fact an image embedded in the ad, not text, because the scammers learned early on that scams would get pulled quickly because text searches were being used to find scams).

[collin]

yeah, if you see any of these auctions- REPORT TO EBAY.

There is a "report item" link at the bottom of every Ebay page. Just follow the prompts. This is not so much to save dummies from losing their money (which does happen...sadly), but rather to keep scum like this from lifting a single stolen penny from anybody.

GRR....hate scammers, I just don't understand the mentality, seriously..