4005 on E-bay

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:30 am

I mailed both for extra pictures.
Both at the username's adress and the other.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:38 am

Scott

No way is it real....

basse · Post by **basse** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:06 am

Guys, there is a good chance that this could be a legit auction if the seller accepts escrow...

The deal with escrow services is that the buyers sends the cash to the escrow service. When it arrives they tell the seller and he sends the bass. Once the bass arrives the buyer notifies the escrow service that it is there and that they are happy with the transaction and then, and only then does the escrow service release the cash to the seller. The cash is NOT released unless the buyer is happy with the goods. And if the goods are never received the escrow service will return the buyer's money...

If the escrow service is legit, you've really got nothing to lose...

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:45 am

I don't see how he would have copied the description of the original auction because of poor English or something and still add a whole deal of other text to it, including he's on AOL, Yahoo and hotmail.

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:53 am

The 660tp's already gone and I got a warning mail from ebay not to deal with that person

8mileshigh · Post by **8mileshigh** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:37 am

Good job gang...........another low life's been rumbled.

jal · Post by **jal** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:28 am

It look's too good to be true except for the Escrow part , I used escrow.com for an off ebay deal to get a '68 Tbird IV & it worked great , I got the Bass gave it a once over & then within I think 2-3 days they released my $$ to the seller , if this Bass is really in his hands maybe he could tell us about or provide us w/ photos of the Ric & Fender hanging on the wall w/ it,

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:38 am

The pictures make me think it's a shop, not a house. Could be wrong seeing as I've got guitars on my walls, too. I wouldn't doubt that with a little digging, we could find the original pix.

jal · Post by **jal** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:44 am

that photo could be from a music shop, I checked gbase & found only the two big $ 6 & 8 string '05s for sale but I did find this worn burgundy glow '68 4005 in Japan @ $6,237.60
http://www.mikigakki.com/category/details.php?item_id=CO-29&Route=v&Cat_Id=

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:55 am

Found it!

http://www.ricmania.jp/mcg05.html

It's in Japan

wim · Post by **wim** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:57 am

A scam allright.

Very well done, Scott!!

now, why don't we all bid up to $100.000.000 so the ****** seller has to pay some fees

I also see there's already some bidding on it

s4001 · Post by **s4001** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:59 am

Some poor shmuck answered one of those fake emails and his account got hijacked. I wouldn't want to add injury to more injury.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:06 am

Good job Scott (or should I say Sherlock)

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:48 am

Hah! And now there's a Chinese clone of this scam side by side in the eBay listings!

Good thing we all know better!

marty · Post by **marty** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:50 am

At least a couple of these low lifes in the UK have been rumbled:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4396914.stm