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If you're smart about it, you set up one email address that you only use for personal stuff, and then you set up another one that you use with accounts like ebay and paypal and other things that you have to sign up for. Then, you have to make sure about which emails you read or respond to, and which attachments you open, etc. Even computer experts can be tripped up sometimes. That is the big problem with making the internet so accessible.....it makes it easier for troublemakers to abuse the system. I spend more than half my time at work cleaning up spyware and viruses that the unwitting and clueless co-workers I have somehow put on their systems. No amount of training will solve the problem until the computer users decide to be proactive and learn more about how to avoid having these problems.

I like 2030's....

What kind of 2030's do you like Chris???

Inexpensive red ones....

Here's Ebay's response (finally):


Your bid for item #200028134965 was recently cancelled by the seller's account. Upon review, this seller's account was used without their permission to cancel your bid. We are currently working with the account owner to ensure that the account has been secured.

Any correspondence from parties claiming to be either eBay or the seller where you are encouraged to complete this purchase without being the legitimate winning bidder, as shown on the auction and in your My eBay page, should be disregarded.

The item in question has been removed from eBay, and may be relisted by the seller. You are welcome to place another bid on the item if the seller chooses to relist.

What you suspected, but leaves the auctioning of the bass out in the open again...

Maybe contact the owner and offer your bid to him again?

"Maybe contact the owner and offer your bid to him again?"

I'm fairly certain I'm the owner...

You won the auction after all those cancelled bids, didn't you John? Do you already have the bass?

"You won the auction after all those cancelled bids, didn't you John?"
Indeed.

"Do you already have the bass?"
I think so: I have a box that I haven't opened...

I also got the same email that Erik did.

I keep getting emails about things being relisted that I'm not watching.
Guess what, I tried the Trend Micro scan & it found a trojan, 2 worms & a scad of other less harmful ****.
All from clicking one link from an email to see if indeed something I was watching had been relisted.

Thanks for the link & info Greg! It saved me some headaches & I'll definitely scan more often.
It just goes to show how easy it is for rotten buggers to get into your computer.
Norton didn't do diddley!

The auction is no an invalid item...

I got an email yesterday offering that old Rickenbacker mandolin that Chicago Music Exchange listed a few weeks ago for a buy it now of $2500. I forwarded it to [email protected]. Funny thing about the email was that it said the item was located at an Ebay warehouse and was inspected, you'll be eligible for all of Ebay's serivces assoicated with a transaction, yadda, yadda, yadda, but and I quote "Remember: Since eBay acts as a third party in this transaction our policy does not permit direct contact with the seller. Do not click the "Ask Seller A Question" link on the item page. "

Come on, who'd fall for that one?

Evidently enough to make it worth these skumbags' efforts.