Is Baye full of scammers?

[Bagpuss]

Got dyslexic with my typing all of a sudden

Seems to me it's just a place for criminals and scammers.


1/ Numerous Cat D (written of and rebuilt) cars.

2/ Misdescribed items e.g people selling Gibson SG specials as SG standards (one costs several hundred more than the other)

3/ People selling stuff for 'a friend'

4/ Ticket touts

[pzz76077]

Got dyslexic with my typing all of a sudden

Seems to me it's just a place for criminals and scammers.


1/ Numerous Cat D (written of and rebuilt) cars.

2/ Misdescribed items e.g people selling Gibson SG specials as SG standards (one costs several hundred more than the other)

3/ People selling stuff for 'a friend'

4/ Ticket touts

I guess that its the bottom end of the market - would you buy a car etc from someone you have never met and would not be able to track down if something went wrong?? Me neither....

PZZ

[VectraMan]

1/ Numerous Cat D (written of and rebuilt) cars.

Cat D doesn't mean rebuilt. It can mean quite minor damage.

If you wanted to scam somebody, it'd be far easy to just nick a photo from somebody else's advert for a car you don't have, than to go to all the trouble of fixing that wrecked Passat with by welding it together with bits from an old Cortina (as is the public perception of CatC/CatD cars).

[tino]

If someone buy's an SG Studio for the same price as a Standard they deserve all they get.

In fact, anyone buying a guitar off of e-bay (or without even playing it first) deserves all they get.

[Menelaus]

Seems to me it's just a place for criminals and scammers.

Yes.

HTH

[scotspine]

call me silly but if anyone wants to flog me an sg standard for the price of a special, i'm yer man!

[tino]

call me silly but if anyone wants to flog me an sg standard for the price of a special, i'm yer man!

I have assumed he's talking about an SG Studio, no??

[swamp]

eBay is a very mixed bag. Some bargains, some things you won't get anywhere else, lots of total rubbish, and of course plenty of scams and rip-offs of every conceivable type.

As I rule, these days I would only use it to buy and sell low value items, like around £50. Also think about demographic and the item. Buying a £300 baby buggy is probably safe, but try and sell a £30 mobile phone and you'll have half of Nigeria telling you that you owe them money.

[cojak]

.... but try and sell a £30 mobile phone and you'll have half of Nigeria telling you that you owe them money.

How does that one work???

[swamp]

How does that one work???

For instance, you'll get lots of (phishing) emails from "eBay" telling you that you must ship the item or pay money or whatever. Lots of 'official' threats that your eBay account will be suspended etc. Quite well done it was, only indication that the emails are fake (other than dubious context) is Yahoo domain keys.

Simple rule is: don't sell mobile phones on eBay!