Example of how people get scammed on Ebay

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Did you scroll down?

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:01:08 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Did you scroll down?

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Did you scroll down?

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

says the person who *still* doesn't understand how ebay works.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.

you might want to ask yourself why you consistently refuse to learn why
you're wrong.

On 4/20/2021 7:50 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Did you scroll down?

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

says the person who *still* doesn't understand how ebay works.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.

you might want to ask yourself why you consistently refuse to learn why
you're wrong.

I'm at a loss to understand Eric's confusion.

I too don't use e-bay, and am thus unfamiliar with
it's in's and out's ...yet tracked down the
"info_in_question" in just a few clicks.
~~
IMHO nospam is right in saying:
" this isn't complicated. it really isn't."
~~
E-bay wants people to buy stuff... thus if (whatever)
is unavailable it will point you to something similar
that IS available.
~~
[YMMV]

In article , Ron C
wrote:


Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

says the person who *still* doesn't understand how ebay works.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.

you might want to ask yourself why you consistently refuse to learn why
you're wrong.

I'm at a loss to understand Eric's confusion.

he is eternally confused.

I too don't use e-bay, and am thus unfamiliar with
it's in's and out's ...yet tracked down the
"info_in_question" in just a few clicks.
~~
IMHO nospam is right in saying:
" this isn't complicated. it really isn't."
~~
E-bay wants people to buy stuff... thus if (whatever)
is unavailable it will point you to something similar
that IS available.

exactly.

there's not much point in showing an item that has ended, but for those
who really do want to see it, there's a large clearly labeled button on
a page that is visually *very* different than a normal listing.

~~
[YMMV]

nothing that would matter.

rOn Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:58:19 -0400, Ron C
wrote:

On 4/20/2021 7:50 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Did you scroll down?

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

says the person who *still* doesn't understand how ebay works.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.

you might want to ask yourself why you consistently refuse to learn why
you're wrong.

I'm at a loss to understand Eric's confusion.

I too don't use e-bay, and am thus unfamiliar with
it's in's and out's ...yet tracked down the
"info_in_question" in just a few clicks.
~~
IMHO nospam is right in saying:
" this isn't complicated. it really isn't."

I think its a question of timing. Every time I was directed to
something I clicked on it and failed to find what I had been lead to
expect. The only explanation is that e-bay was flushing the old before
I got to it. I even posted URLs which showed what I had found and
still I was told that I was missing something in the page, but I was
never told what in a manner which lead to what I was lead to expect.
If nospam had given me straight answer at the outset perhaps this
boondoggle would never have occurred.

~~
E-bay wants people to buy stuff... thus if (whatever)
is unavailable it will point you to something similar
that IS available.
~~
[YMMV]
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that means.

Similar does not mean identical.

exactly.

now you know why it was a different camera, and will be different yet
again when you try in the future.

this isn't complicated. it really isn't.

You really are an idiot.

says the person who *still* doesn't understand how ebay works.

I think it's time to put you back in the kill file and this time to
throw away the key.

you might want to ask yourself why you consistently refuse to learn why
you're wrong.

I'm at a loss to understand Eric's confusion.

I too don't use e-bay, and am thus unfamiliar with
it's in's and out's ...yet tracked down the
"info_in_question" in just a few clicks.
~~
IMHO nospam is right in saying:
" this isn't complicated. it really isn't."

I think its a question of timing. Every time I was directed to
something I clicked on it and failed to find what I had been lead to
expect. The only explanation is that e-bay was flushing the old before
I got to it. I even posted URLs which showed what I had found and
still I was told that I was missing something in the page, but I was
never told what in a manner which lead to what I was lead to expect.
If nospam had given me straight answer at the outset perhaps this
boondoggle would never have occurred.

i did give you a straight answer.

stop making excuses and just admit you don't understand it and refuse
to learn anything.

all that is necessary was to read the contents of the page, which
clearly said that the original listing had ended, here's something
similar, but if you really want to see the original item even though
you can't bid on it anymore, click this large clearly labeled button.

In article , Eric Stevens wrote:

JT:
Did you scroll down?

Eric Stevens:
Yes. It appears to be a different camera. The seller is now
chrita_1686. It was Redtagcamera(76504).

nospam:
next time it will be something else.

did you notice the word 'similar' on the page? guess what that
means.

Similar does not mean identical.

I killfiled him long ago.

--
Sandman