UPDATE: Be Careful If you Are Selling on Ebay - I was almost just scammed out of my 300mm lens!

[ddt0725]

This is not as common as it used to be, but big ticket items are still targets of thieves.

And its not just the seller that gets taken in these scams either. Just last week, an engineer in my office purchased an awesome golf club at quite a good price. Turns out many other people did also ...from a seller who never shipped them or ever had them to begin with...he's says he got robbed on the way to the post office!

I would think now with the economy the way it is ...more &morepeople are getting desperate to make a buck, anyway they can!

Denise

[peety3]

And its not just the seller that gets taken in these scams either. Just last week, an engineer in my office purchased an awesome golf club at quite a good price. Turns out many other people did also ...from a seller who never shipped them or ever had them to begin with...he's says he got robbed on the way to the post office!

How was payment handled? I got scammed by somebody on Ebay who wouldn't take paypal (so I had to get a money order, which I mailed to them). He sent "2GB" memory cards which only showed up as 1GB. I shipped back for proper replacements, and never heard from the seller...closed the Ebay account and everything.


Two years later, after I'd deleted all of my email trails, someone from either Ebay or the Postal service asked for info, as they were pursuing the seller for mail fraud, a federal offense. That could be a great way to pursue someone...