E-bay related .. does it sound dodgy?

[Mk2Jo]

I'm trying to sell my old Beemer on flea-bay and I just had an e-mail as below ...... does it sound dodgy or am I just being paranoid what with all the bad press about scammers on flea-bay

 

 

 

Question from h178gdg

h178gdg( 0)

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Member since: 06-Mar-05

Location: Somerset, United Kingdom

Registered on: www.ebay.co.uk

 

 

Item: 1989 BMW 735 I SE AUTO GREY (300034327264)

This message was sent while the listing was active.

h178gdg is a potential buyer.

 

 

 

Hi

Interested in your bm

-But cant bid- my comp crashes if I try to! _ Please phone me in Weston -s mare (01934 627648) Thanks- Graham

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Well, he's given a land line number so it may be ligit. His user name is a car registration, registered to a Volvo 940TD. It does seem odd though that he's been registered since March and not bought or sold anything, but that may be down to his crashing computer..!

 

Give him a ring and see.

[caprifan]

...how has he seen the auction if his computer keeps crashing ? if the computer is running long enough to view the auction then it is running long enough to bid....do not ring the number....how do you know the number is not forwarded on to one of these lines which costs you a fortune !

 

be weary its the only way these days unfortunately

[Mk2Jo]

Hmm, good point ... maybe I should just e-mail him back and ask him what he wants to know

[dannyboy]

From being scammed many times recently, I would say either try the number (from work or other) and see if he is real, if so tell him to come and look at it first and you take it off ebay if he brings cash.

 

Any doubts remove his bid, theres nothing worse than him winning the auction and then suddenly not a registered user. Its not even funny as a prank.

 

This reminds me, I could post up what happened to me, as i kept all the emails. Just so people might know what happens on evilbay.

[ZetecVan 2.0]

If you want to read about an ebay scam, where the scammer got scammed by the seller who realised he was being scammed, read this - I was in stitches.

 

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook

[flyingbanana]

even with the land line it could be a pay phone...

[Cookie]

I'd just email him back your number and let him call you personally, If i called all the numbers i had been asked to on ebay it would of cost me a small fortune

[Danmex]

Resolved it yet?

[Mk2Jo]

I e-mailed the guy back and asked if there were any questions he wanted to ask me ....... I don't get how his computer crashes when he makes a bid If he's genuine ... He'll e-mail me back I guess

[Danmex]

Our computer does it some times, does it when we click on links too which is kind of the same thing I still wouldn't phone him though.

[Posse]

ill phone him for you jo i love all that lol

[Gareth]

ill phone him for you jo i love all that lol

 

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