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Read the whole thing. Too cool.

This was a pretty cool "scam the scammer" story. I read it last month.

That's the coolest read I've done in ages! Excellent find! I was hoping for a bit more in the video's section, but still nice - heh.

Great post Saturn.
I'll pass that around to some others i know who use ebay regularly.

Any other stories like this you guys have dug over the time? I know I have been ripped of on one transaction on audiogon.com for $350usd

My roommate got scammed for $1600 on eBay. I will explain the whole story when I get back.

I got scamed for a about $700 for a Dell computer on ebay. All sorts of excuses for delays in shipping, would never send a tracking number. He had 4 or 5 positive feedbacks as a seller of items in the $30-$75 range. I was the first big sale. When things started to smell I started following his other auctions that started after mine closed. Three more Dells almost identical to what I bought. Seller finally claimed the computer was destroyed by UPS and that was the latest cause for the delay. When I started checking I found the seller's phone number listed with ebay was bogus.

What I did was watch as each of his auctions closed on ebay and emailed each buyer to beware of what looked like a scam. I filed complaint with ebay and made a claim with paypal. I emailed the seller that I had warned off his other buyers.

I figured he had to be locatable through his paypal account because it requires a bank account, social security number etc.

He refunded my money through paypal very quickly at this point. Two of his other buyers had responded to me and I told them the whole story. Ebay closed his account. The third buyer emailed me sometime later saying he never got his computer or money back wanting to know what had happened to me. I was lucky I caught him at the beginning of his ebay spree where he wanted to keep other fish on the hook. Paypal insurance/satisfaction gaurantee is a good idea in my opinion, pretty cheap.

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know I have been ripped of on one transaction on audiogon.com for $350usd

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Were you the buyer or the seller? Tell us how it happened so that it may help us to avoid a simular situation.

Alright. My roommate got scammed, but I must say that it was partly, if not completley his own stinkin fault. He was in the market for a Canon GL2 Video Camera. He had the cash saved up to buy a new one from B&H, but against my advice said he was going to save a few bucks and buy one off eBay. He saw one on Ebay and conteacted the seller with some questions he had. The lady answered his quickly, and he decided he would buy a camera from her. This is where it started going downhill. The lady said she was in the EU but that the camera was NTSC. He believed all of the BS she was feeding him. She then wanted him to wire her the money. Most dumb ass move of all time right there. Wire money to some random person in Spain that you have never talked to other than email. Typical scam, wire the money under false name, get person to check money has been sent, then send tracking numbers, then change name on wired money to real name.

So he sent the money under a false name, and emiled the person to verify that he had sent the money. So, he was waiting for tracking numbers when he checked on his money. It was gone and he never heard from the lady again.

Live and learn, never wire money. 1st hint of a scam right there. He filed police reports and all sorts of eBay reports, WesternUnion fraud, all types of stuff. He eventually found out that the lady worked at a bank in BFE Kentucky, but did nothing more after that.