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[Fishman]

no feedback. no items sold

7 bids, 3 by the same person bidding against themselves – hilarious – I call cow poop…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-Bass-MK-I-1981/373259362720?hash=item56e7fde1a0:g:WFMAAOSwNsVffXju

[Fishman]

I see this forum is employing China-style censoring of my typing re BS in the above post – also hilarious and totally unnecessary

[TheGreek]

I just placed a ridiculous bid and I'm the high bidder. Expect this to sell for £3k+

[Fishman]

I'm going to contact them for a laugh

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, Fishman said:

...7 bids, 3 by the same person bidding against themselves...

Just on that one point, things are not so simple. There are 'automatic' bids in place (they can be made visible...), which show the bidder 'upping' his bid until the auto-bid is defeated. There are more than 7 bids (at time of your post...).
Just sayin'. 

[prowla]

Canaries, going cheep...

[Beedster]

Am I missing something? 

Bids fine

Poor photo, are you saying it's fake?

[Beedster]

Seller has also listed a harp for sale, not the classic sign of a scammer

[alyctes]

TBH I'm more surprised at only two photos, for a bass which you could reasonably expect to fetch well north of 2K. 

That doesn't seem scammy either; seller not used to eBay, more likely.

 

Maybe the best thing to do is introduce them to BC

Edited October 9, 2020 by alyctes

[LukeFRC]

interestingly theres a "63" precision listed from the same spanish island https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1963-Fender-Precision-Bass/133538462183?hash=item1f178339e7:g:iZcAAOSwbFdffCjm 

[alyctes]

1 minute ago, alyctes said:

Maybe the best thing to do is introduce them to BC

Strike that, the poor sod will just wind up spending more than £3K in the For Sale anyway

[Beedster]

1 minute ago, alyctes said:

TBH I'm more surprised at only two photos, for a bass which you could reasonably expect to fetch well north of 2K. 

That doesn't seem scammy either; seller not used to eBay, more likely.

 

Maybe the best thing to do is introduce them to BC

Good idea

[Beedster]

Just now, alyctes said:

Strike that, the poor sod will just wind up spending more than £3K in the For Sale anyway

Yep 

[Beedster]

1 minute ago, LukeFRC said:

interestingly theres a "63" precision listed from the same spanish island https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1963-Fender-Precision-Bass/133538462183?hash=item1f178339e7:g:iZcAAOSwbFdffCjm 

Mmmmm, fair point, I stand by the harp clause however. If he’s clever enough to distract attention with that, probably not foolish enough to run two scams at once? 

[LukeFRC]

I emailed him for more pics of the 63.... Everything on both screams scam to me. For a start there’s not many cameras These days that can get as low Quality images

[yorks5stringer]

16 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

I emailed him for more pics of the 63.... Everything on both screams scam to me. For a start there’s not many cameras These days that can get as low Quality images

Looks like its missing strings? Smells like a scam to me, has anyone done the google image check on them to see if the photo is from somewhere else?

 

Just looking at the bidding history, why would 8***1 bid against themself from £1 up to £190?

Edited October 9, 2020 by yorks5stringer

[Beedster]

The plot thickens

[Beedster]

But if it’s a scam, I really don’t get the harp? And he seems to know what he’s talking about musically? And you can’t bid against yourself, it just looks like you can. Perhaps the seller has MPD, genius scammer one minute, rubbish one the next

[LukeFRC]

16 minutes ago, Beedster said:

But if it’s a scam, I really don’t get the harp? And he seems to know what he’s talking about musically? And you can’t bid against yourself, it just looks like you can. Perhaps the seller has MPD, genius scammer one minute, rubbish one the next

If I were a harpist in the Canary Islands would ebay with an English language advert be in your top ways to sell? I I were posting a Harp from the Canary Islands would it really only cost double a bass at £200? 

[Beedster]

1 minute ago, LukeFRC said:

If I were a harpist in the Canary Islands would ebay with an English language advert be in your top ways to sell? I I were posting a Harp from the Canary Islands would it really only cost double a bass at £200? 

Ha ha, fair points, but if it is a scam, its an odd one 

[Happy Jack]

C'mon guys, you're better than this.

30 seconds with Google, and I found this:

 

[Beedster]

2 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

C'mon guys, you're better than this.

30 seconds with Google, and I found this:

 

Damn, Inspector Jack wins again

[Beedster]

What I don’t get is that you’d use PayPal so how does the scammer come out if it intact? 

[Hellzero]

And both ads reported right now.

Please do the same.

[Beedster]

But i still don't get how this 'scam' would work, unless there's a way around PayPal recharging the seller when the buyer reports a non-arrival, which I doubt, having to deal with PayPal when I had a buyer accuse me of not sending the correct item a couple of years back. Or is that what he does, he sells it and then makes out that he's been scammed "the buyer has returned a fake item", but with zero feedback that wouldn't have legs surely? Or does he just close down his bank account and hoof it?

The thing is, if you're going to run a scam, there are easier fakes to sell than Wal's and harps; phones, watches, computers, cameras...... This just seems the hard way to do it!

Been a long week, I'm probably missing something obvious