EBAY PLEB RUINS DAY.

[rmad]

My wife's Metro sold for £256:
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4530720870

Here's the bidding history of the buyer:
cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewBidItems&sort=3&userid=kosho123&from=R7&nojspr=y&pfid=0&completed=1&all=1&rows=200

Bloody annoying! I wish there was some way I could warn other sellers, but the ebay contact system takes too long.

The 'real' buyers have all had they're maximum bids displayed, other potential buyers/bidders have been put off by the inflated price...the whole process has been tainted by this pleb.

What do people who play this game have to gain?

[rmad]

I've left him negative feedback, so he's made his feedback private!
Let's hope other spot it and cancel his bids.

LOSER.

[BenzBoy]

What a c0cksucker. I assume because he "won" the auction you have his address? If I were you I'd get a shagged-out, rusty Metro from the breakers, fill it full of unwanted sh!t and dump it in his front garden at 2 am.

[Pillock]

just out of interest, what area does he live in?

and when are we having a retro-rides meet?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

He’s been booted.

I don’t understand why folk do that, 3-4 months ago no-one was doing it but now its happening all the time. Tossers.

[rmad]

I received an email from him today...which surprised me as I thought he was just some teenager having a laugh. Turns out, it's just another version of the I'll send you a cheque for the value + shipping scam.

[jamieandthemagictorch]

bloody hell, this is the same guy that f*cked my mate up. he was bidding on this car;

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4531577689

the seller then found out he was a joker (within 2 hours of the bids closing) & agreed to sell it for £450 to my mate, which is what his highest bid was before this muppet came along.

what kicks are they getting out of this ?

[jamieandthemagictorch]

rmad said:

I received an email from him today...which surprised me as I thought he was just some teenager having a laugh. Turns out, it's just another version of the I'll send you a cheque for the value + shipping scam.

whats his e-mail address ?

[jamieandthemagictorch]

rmad said:

Turns out, it's just another version of the I'll send you a cheque for the value + shipping scam.

I think your SPOT ON with that comment........it makes sense now

I do recall the scam whereby people promise to send you a cheque for the price of the car & the cost of shipping to send it over seas. Well this new version of that screws the ebay process for all parties included.


The Hoax buyer bids for your car, normally a OTT bid. then when you contact them they say, I want to send you a cheque for the car & shipping to "X" country. IF you are not aware, you get the cheque, the car goes. & the cheque gets canceled 2 weeks later, even though as far as your concerened it cleared.

This screws the sellers up due to;
a) if they do give them the car, they will never see the money
b) if like most people you realise this guy is a complete C**t, then he has screwed up your sale, you pay a higher fee to ebay, & you have to contact the 2nd highest bidder if you want to sell it.

This screws buyers up due to;
a) your bidding price is driven artificially high.
b) even if the seller "clicks" as to whats happening, they may not have the forthought to contact you, the 2nd highest bidder, to buy it. And then they might just re-auction it.

That link to the guy rmad posted.

as you can see he uses a number system, so probably only has an ID for a few weeks max, before getting another. He also hides his feedback, so unless you actually click on it to see the negative vs positive, you will be none the wiser. Thats 91 potential car sales that he has managed to f*ck up in under 2 weeks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and this is just ONE of these tossers !!!!!!!!!!!


So check any bidders feedback rating properly if it looks too good to be true. & hope that E-bay can do something or put a system in place that can help prevent this...........like button the allows a seller to reject a bidder, or a button that allows a seller to request that only buyers with a minimum feedback of "x" are allowed to bid on said item.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

There is not a lot you can do about these tw$ts, apart from check your auction regularly and block any c*ck-knockers who appear with zero feedback and the ‘new user’ logo. Ebay should put an option to only allow folk with 5 or more feedbacks to bid on cars, if someone with less than 5 wanted to bid you could easily unblock them on receipt of a credible name/address/phone no. etc etc. Also Foreign bidders should have to be unblocked before being allowed to bid. These scammers never have any pos feedback so that would easily weed them out.

At the moment they can set them selves up on bidnapper to bid in the last 5 seconds and the seller is 100% scuppered, there is NOWT you can do against this.

If they fugg up your auction you can file a non-paying-bidder against them then claim the final value fees back, at least then you don’t end up out of pocket.