IS THIS LEGIT?? ('33 Goudey set)

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Posted By: dennis

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31721&item=5127504078&rd=1 it would seem to me if real, a seller would buy to break -up and sell.this same set was up about a month ago and didn't get any bids.price seems low and why 1 day? SCAM?


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Posted By: Mark

No record of selling before, no card purchases to speak of, private auction, one day sale, buy-it-now for less than half SMR, the wrapper too....

What a deal, it screams out 'scam!'

Offer to buy them now - in person - cash in hand; then wait for the excuses as to why the seller can't meet you.

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Posted By: T206Collector

You e-mail to get put on the pre-approved buyers list, and don't get any responses. But, when the auction is closed, the seller/scammer e-mails you and says, "gee, I'm sorry, I didn't get your e-mail until after the auction was over, but if you'd like to buy it outside of ebay, just send me a check for $X." The seller/scammer does this with every person who asks to be put on the pre-approved buyers list, and if he scams just one person he gets a nice little sum of cash. If he scams a hundred people, he can retire to the Caribean. The idea is to used ebay to scam people without leaving a record of such on ebay -- so ebay won't be able to come after them, you'll be forced to do it yourself.

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Posted By: Elliot

Plus they are hijacked accounts. They guy doing this is our friend "Toni" who we have discussed in many previous threads.

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Posted By: Josh K.

Explain what you mean by hijacked accounts - how does that happen and why would the scammer not just set up a fake account?

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Posted By: ramram

they hijack accounts with fake "phish" mailings. They get a legit account with strong feedback. Nobody suspects there is anything wrong with the seller that way. Then theyy do their dirty work before ebay has time to react to the stolen account.

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Posted By: Judge Dred

1 day auction

Pre approval before bidding

Unrealistic low price

Don't waste your time because you know you're going to get an email from some idiot trying to sell you more stuff at ridiculously low prices and you're going to get ripped off if you send any funds. The saddest part of this scam is that the person knows that people realize that they're pulling a scam. This person is only trying to find one or more people that are oblivious/ignorant to this fact because a thousand dollars here and a thousand dollars there add up fairly quickly.

This person probably reads this board and they probably laugh at us becuase they know there is always another victim to be made. Who ever this person is need only remember that "what goes around, comes around" and one of these days it's going to catch up to them in one form or another.