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Just to let you know there was someone on gumtree offering a beolab 14 for £900, sent hem an email and they sent a fake link to an ebay site saying buy it now. Luckily did not click the link.
beware
Toby
Similar on eBay with a US seller listing everything at 0.79$ and stating that for a buy it now price of 2,000$ (again for every item no matter what it is) you have to contact him first to organise payment.
That then takes you outside of eBay and it's Paypal protection system. I reported 3 items - Beovision 5, Beosound 9000 + speakers and something else to eBay and they were all removed within 1 hour. He does the same with all of his items. I suppose it lowers his listing fees but is a danger for buyers.
Dave.
Also note that the products they are selling do not exist, it is purely a phishing scam..
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Dave Farr: Similar on eBay with a US seller listing everything at 0.79$ and stating that for a buy it now price of 2,000$ (again for every item no matter what it is) you have to contact him first to organise payment. That then takes you outside of eBay and it's Paypal protection system. I reported 3 items - Beovision 5, Beosound 9000 + speakers and something else to eBay and they were all removed within 1 hour. He does the same with all of his items. I suppose it lowers his listing fees but is a danger for buyers. Dave.
Thanks for explaining what that seller was all about. It seemed very weird that prospective buyers had to get this seller's approval before bidding. Thanks to you, I have the back story.
D
Also, the seller's account would have been hacked so the actual owner of that account would have no idea this is happening