Lastly E-Bay Canon 1Ds MkII auctions for €399 or $700 !!

Take a look to this AUCTION:

There are lastly a lot of this, PRIVATE AUCTION, where the seller says don´t bid, please contact with me previously via E-Mail, the bid is made by E-mail against E-Bay rules, the item is sopoused selled to the best bidder. There is no indication about shipping cost, etc, just contact the seller or the bid will be cancelled.

I did contact yesterday with another seller just by curiosity, it was remaining 2 hours to finish and the price was €399 for the 1Ds with just one auction. The seller answered me once finished how to poceed, did not arrive his answer on time, but this was the procedure (I have the E-mail in my home computer, and I can´t past it here, but it was):

"Once you win the auction, and like a sign of trust I shall send you the package via this courier (WS Courier, he send me the www page of them) with a TRACKING Number, so you can follow the sending. In 24 H. you must pay me via Western Union and send me the probe that you have paid. Then you have 14 days warranty money back no questions".

OK, white and in bottle = milk (or tiger nut milk)

I though it´s a big deal: I send you 1 Kg. of apples, you pay me for the best camera at a suppossed bargain price for you (some hundred or thousand dollar I guess) and when you receive the package, you can claim, send me back, I am going to receive the material in bad conditions, surely rotten, and I can tell you that they are not in the same conditions I sent to you, so I shall keep the money or just I refund 10% as sign of a good volunteer or just I don´t care.

I did contact yestarday with E-Bay Spain about this (the page was in Español, Ebay.es) and also about similar pages where another sellers (with E-mail moving around domains like yahoo, hotmail, gmail ...) offers cameras & bodies at absolute bargain prices, indicating oficial selling prices (PVP) absolute not true, and offering 1Ds bodies with the photo of other single bodies, etc, etc ...

BE AWARE ...

Juan,

that offer shouldn't be around much longer, once you alert eBay to it.

Best regards,
Andy

Loads of these listings appear on eBay UK, especially for 1D2Ns - I just report them to eBay and they seem to disappear quickly enough.

They're pretty easy to spot: no PayPal, generic information with no specifics about the actual item for sale, external e-mail addresses, lots of identical listings with the same picture, faked feedback scores etc.

Genuine items will always fetch >£2k new or >£1.5k used, anything else has got to be a scam imho

The old saying: "If its too good to be true, then it probably is" holds true, most especially on eBay. Always ask yourself, and you'll do the right thing.

Check buyer history. If someone is selling something utterly unrelated, chances are it may be hijacked.

And scammers ALWAYS post "please contact me at blah blah email address to make quick deal/steal" etc.

I did, and it´s fascinating the kind of messages you see there, even things not relative to the matter, fancy design answers, etc. 100% positive even.

The thing is that lastly there are so many of these, just make google search for the camera boby and you are point out to many of these in E-Bay worldwide. The pages appear with translation or mixed, and may be someones "inocent" have the temptation to pickup the apples.

Juan Zas wrote:
Take a look to this AUCTION:

Yea ... ALL of these auction listings are nothing but scams ....

Just say NO!

BTW: After contact E-Bay, they have dissuaded of using Western Union as a medium to send money, because they don´t have a protection mechanism against possible frauds. Once you send the money, it´s gone.

Well,

that's basic knowledge ... if the buyer asks for Western Union Money Transfer, then run as fast as you can...

Best regards,
Andy

Also, its a scam if they post a e-mail to contact them in the post, rather than contacting them through e-bay.

Yes, this is a scam, but the bigger problem is that ordinary people are falling for phishing emails and having their Ebay accounts stolen and scammed. This will keep happening (and in fact get worse) as long as we have computer illiterate people using computers for their business needs.

Dave

Always check the sellers feedback ........ all these have a small string of feedbacks from people with similar IDs that sound more like strings of code than names and most, if not all, of these have 0 feedback themselves.

Basically the feedback comes from other IDs the seller has set up.

Stay well clear !!!

that's a typical scammer technique... never make deals outside of ebay... always pay with wiretransfer or paypal!

Google's toolbar actually has an anti-phishing thing in it now. So i'd recommend that as well.

I tested it out with a scam e-mail and it stopped me from going in there. Defintely worked well.

Agre 100%, for that reason it´s healthy to inform and show them up to the people.

Anyway, always there are "cleaver" people that thinks they are going to be more inteligent and get a good deal.
In my country is very famous the scam about the "silly boy" that ask you in the street to see if a lottery coupon it was prized with €10.000 and sells you becuase looks like a foolish man by only €500 because he can not get it. It´s the most scam famous here and still it´s a lot of people going in !!!! Ahh you know, the guilty are the mortages .....