Ebay Scam on Canon 50/1.5?

[chris00nj]

So last week, a Canon 50/1.5 with some haze was up for sale on eBay by a "powerseller" and it was out of Virginia. It was even a source of a thread here.

Now, it seems that the same lens is for sale on eBay. It's now being sold from Hong Kong, with someone with a 0 rating, the number and the pictures are the same... oh, and the guy doesn't take paypal. It's says paypal accepted at the top of the page, but in the verbage below it says he doesn't take paypal.

Just thought I'd warn y'all.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I like the Serial No: NA, when one of the photos clearly shows the serial number. Dumb.

 

[splitimageview]

Heh, we don't take paypal, but "Please note that we only ship to the address on file with PayPal."

And how about this copy?

"Once you are finished, please pay for all of your items at once, by requesting a direct Paypal invoice from us at service@shutterblade.com or via eBay Messages."

 

[xayraa33]

I noted this scam on the HU thread for the Canon 50/f1.5 a few days ago.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69462&page=3


I am surprised that Ebay has not yet put a stop to this criminality on its site.

 

[bucks11]

It's a tempting buy tho.....haha 😕

 

[Pickett Wilson]

It seems to be getting harder to get eBay to take down scams.

 

[splitimageview]

There are so many red flags in this auction, it's going to naturally keep down bidders. Those that are taken by it kinda need to learn a lesson...

 

[oftheherd]

Shutterblade is a legitimate seller in Ashland, VA. I don't know how they ended up on the payment section, unless it is just jurther evidence of a new scammer who didn't pay attention in Scammer 101.

 

[AusDLK]

Someone needs to report it to eBay as fraudulent. (I just did.)

 

[chris00nj]

Shutterblade is a legitimate seller in Ashland, VA. I don't know how they ended up on the payment section, unless it is just jurther evidence of a new scammer who didn't pay attention in Scammer 101.

They copied the recent legitimate sale of a Canon 50/1.5 from Shutterblade. They copied the pictures and the wording on the condition.

 

[xayraa33]

scam auction is over, with two bidders for a hot sale price of 36 USD's.

must have been worth it for the hong kong goof ball.

 

[chris00nj]

I noted this scam on the HU thread for the Canon 50/f1.5 a few days ago.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69462&page=3


I am surprised that Ebay has not yet put a stop to this criminality on its site.

I'm surprised that eBay didn't shut it down from the last reporting. eBay needs to maintain credibility for it's longterm survival.

 

[chris00nj]

Someone needs to report it to eBay as fraudulent. (I just did.)

Good job, the item was removed. (how do you report something btw?)

 

[xayraa33]

I'm surprised that eBay didn't shut it down from the last reporting. eBay needs to maintain credibility for it's longterm survival.

I am also surprised at this, Ebay let it go on even when warned by several people early into the auction.
Ebay must be hard up for revenue.
it tells us for " buyer be aware".
you cannot rely on this big auction outfit to weed these scammers out, even when individually informed about them.

 

[xayraa33]

Good job, the item was removed. (how do you report something btw?)

was it removed?
I was under the impression it ran its natural course.
it listed a winning bidder for a total of 36 dollars.

P.S just check again. it was removed.

 

[Gumby]

you cannot rely on this big auction outfit to weed these scammers out, even when individually informed about them.

The situation is likely to get worse befroe it gets better. hven't you noticed that the number of scams seems to remain high, but the news tells us that ebay is laying off large nubmers of workers. Their increasing workload will likely make it increasingly difficult to keep things under control. "Buyer beware" has always been the word-of-the-day regarding ebay... and that doesn't appear to be changing!

 

[kuzano]

eBay often does not take down "outright" scams

eBay often does not take down "outright" scams

It seems to be getting harder to get eBay to take down scams.

I've been involved in reporting scams to eBay. On obvious scams, eBay may not take down the scam, but rather watch it to close and then immediately contact all bidders and all who have asked questions of the seller. This gives them an opportunity to contact a winning bidder, stop the transaction, and find out where the seller wants the funds sent and how. I'm sure at that point the auction is turned over to the authorities.

This bothers me somewhat, but I don't think there is much chance of finding offenders without finding more information at auction end.

I've seen at least three transactions where I could tell the auction was "rigged" or "fraudulent" from the start. In all three auctions, I asked the seller for SN's. Then reported to eBay. All three auctions continued and closed, which baffled me at the time. Yet on all three auctions, within minutes of close, I received a message from eBay indicating that they knew that I had communicated with the buyer and to NOT RESPOND to any contact from the seller as the auction was suspect.

It turns out that the perpetrators of this type of activity not only scam the winning bidder, but they send out "second chance offers" to all other bidders and defraud everybody who bid. That's one reason to be very suspicious of second chance offers.

That's also part the reason that eBay began encrypting bidders names.... so that a scammer watching the auction could not phony up a second chance offer, or similar scam.

 

[Gong]

This whole scam makes me laugh, the guy didnt even bother to try and list a mint canon 50/1.5 he could have made sooo much more money had he gotten away with it...

What a joker