Question regarding strange e-bay stuff

[RJBender]

I followed (ok, more than followed) the auction on that mamiya 6 stuff yesterday...
Now i got an e-mail from the owner (at least pretending to be the owner) (see below)

I have no experience with such stuff. What do you think about it?
Details: the stuff had a BIN of almost 2000$ and a reserve that was not met by the highest bid. (Not mine...)

E-mail follows:

Hello,

I have begin this second chance offer because the winner of my auction didn't respond to my email. You can buy now the item which you placed a bid for US $616.66 on May-15-06 03:43:10 PDT is now available for purchase: Mamiya 6MF Film Camera Super clean MInt (7xxxxxxxx1) . The deal will go strictly according to eBay rules and policy regarding to this second chance offer-to start the official transaction .
If you are interested i wait your email.

Thanks !

Pherdi,

What's in the first line of the internet header?
It should be Return-Path: <SecondChanceOffer@ebay.com>

R.J.

 

[Pherdinand]

RJ,
It's not. It is a plain and simple text message in form of an e-mail from a free email provider.
Has NOTHING to do with the e-bay messaging service.
Also has no links in it at all.
Just a guy trying his luck, i guess!

thanks for your oppinions and tips, guys.

Of course if stg sounds too good to be true then probably it's not true heh?🙂

 

[RJBender]

Pherdi,

People have been seeing fake log in screens pop up when they look at an eBay listing. There have been several threads about it here: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=51

EBay's rules prohibit the use of javascript in a listing's description. They must not have a way to check every listing. http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-javascript.html

Apparently, the scammers are using these usernames and passwords to scam people with second chance offers.

R.J.

 

[zenit_focus]

ebay stuff!?

ebay stuff!?

this is an enlarger going for a bargain if any one wants it!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=180129797840&rd=1&rd=1

 

[oscroft]

I followed (ok, more than followed) the auction on that mamiya 6 stuff yesterday...
Now i got an e-mail from the owner (at least pretending to be the owner)

The other thing, of course, is that a genuine seller won't be telling you "the winner of my auction didn't respond to my email" after just one day.

 

[nikon_sam]

If it is a genuine second chance offer, it will appear on your ebay page when you log in. If it doesn't it is not a genuine offer and the guy could be fishing for you details or looking for a deal outside of eBay. If this is the case, I would walk away. If it is there and you like the deal, then go for it.

Kim

THIS IS SO TRUE...I just got a second chance offer through my normal email and the message was also in my Ebay Summary.
Sometimes they will ask you to "click on a link" and "sign-in"...Don't do this either...😎