The below is in via an anonymous reader. I catch these as well. Be careful. In these listings, there is usually an offer to pick the item for a great BIN outside of eBay by contacting the seller. NEVER go for it. It's usually a scam and it is against eBay policy. When I see them I filter them out of the eBay links on the right of this site, so use them. Please note it's not possible to catch them all the second they go up, and there are other scams out there, so always be careful. The list is "cleaner" but not perfect. I also filter a few other things to keep the feeds synth only.
via an anonymous reader:
"I follow your blog for some time now. I use your blog mainly to keep up to date with all synth related and from time to time find good deals on eBay. But the reason of my email is for something else, today I found a few eBay items and almost got scammed.
The item in question was an Alesis Andromeda. I took a few screen shots and decided to forward you those. Perhaps you can make a post and warn others of the issue.
The A6 on the screen is not the same I was about to be scammed into. But today I've seen many of them come up and go by many different sellers. I believe that the seller accounts got hijacked and they are not even aware of the issue, none the less it will great to warn others of the matter. The worst part is that the scam is for many types of synths, oberheim, arps, jupiters, etc. which really sucks specially during holiday season. "
Also see this post on protecting yourself against scams.
I've been seeing a series of Waldorf Q+ Phoenixes that have identical descriptions and pictures to one that sold earlier. I reported them to eBay and they were taken down, but some have reappeared. When possible, it helps to watch similar items to the one you want to buy for a while before bidding on one.
ReplyDeleteThose Q+s are back, with identical photos and descriptions, and a graphic file in the description that says bidders must contact seller for a deal outside eBay. (eBay would otherwise catch words to that effect if they existed as text in the description, the jpeg allows the scammer to get around that.) Off I go to report the items again...
ReplyDeleteThanks! I updated the links here to filter them out.
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