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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:08:30 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...QAAOSw1GJgdKc6 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko...IAAOSwNpRgcweW I'm not familiar with Ebay but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...y/284255178583 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko...s/144004765849 I'm not familiar with Ebay clearly. but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? look again. the first is from brazil and the second is from mexico. both sellers joined ebay last week. the description text is the same for both, other than one using line breaks. it screams scam. |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:34:32 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...y/284255178583 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko...s/144004765849 I'm not familiar with Ebay clearly. but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? look again. the first is from brazil and the second is from mexico. both sellers joined ebay last week. the description text is the same for both, other than one using line breaks. it screams scam. Thank you for your most helpful advice. Neither I or CtrlF can find the word Brazil or Mexico on that page. Nor does my poking around the corners of those pages. What I did find was the cameras were being:- "Sold By redtagcamera(76483) 100% Positive feedback" .... and:- "Based in United States, redtagcamera has been an eBay member since Aug 27, 2007" If nospam won't help me can anyone else tell me where the advertisements say anything about Brazil or Mexico? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens wrote:
nospam: In article , Eric Stevens RichA: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...-Camera-Black- Body-Only/284255178583 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Nikon-Z6-24-5MP- Mirrorless/144004765849 Eric Stevens: I'm not familiar with Ebay nospam: clearly. Eric Stevens: but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? nospam: look again. the first is from brazil and the second is from mexico. both sellers joined ebay last week. the description text is the same for both, other than one using line breaks. it screams scam. Thank you for your most helpful advice. Neither I or CtrlF can find the word Brazil or Mexico on that page. Nor does my poking around the corners of those pages. What I did find was the cameras were being:- "Sold By redtagcamera(76483) 100% Positive feedback" ... and:- "Based in United States, redtagcamera has been an eBay member since Aug 27, 2007" If nospam won't help me can anyone else tell me where the advertisements say anything about Brazil or Mexico? The listings has ended, you have to click "see original item" to go to the listing. Here are the URLs to each original page: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko.../144004765849? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc &orig_cvip=true Seller: chrita_1686 Location: San Luis, Mexico https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...ack-Body-Only- /284255178583? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc &orig_cvip=true Seller: robdan-8830 Location: Salvador, Brazil -- Sandman |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:34:32 -0400, nospam wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...a-Black-Body-O nly/284255178583 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko...s/144004765849 I'm not familiar with Ebay clearly. but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? look again. the first is from brazil and the second is from mexico. both sellers joined ebay last week. the description text is the same for both, other than one using line breaks. it screams scam. Thank you for your most helpful advice. Neither I or CtrlF can find the word Brazil or Mexico on that page. Nor does my poking around the corners of those pages. What I did find was the cameras were being:- "Sold By redtagcamera(76483) 100% Positive feedback" ... and:- "Based in United States, redtagcamera has been an eBay member since Aug 27, 2007" If nospam won't help me can anyone else tell me where the advertisements say anything about Brazil or Mexico? you missed the 'listing has ended', 'view original item' and 'we found something similar' text, all in large bolded text at the top of the page. you also missed that the feedback of what you listed, 76483, does not match the zero feedback described in the post, further indicating you weren't looking at the original listing. you should also consider corrective lenses and/or text-to-speech. being unable to read large bold text is a very serious problem. |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
On 16 Apr 2021 11:10:05 GMT, Sandman wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens wrote: nospam: In article , Eric Stevens RichA: Same photos, same low price, one in Brazil, one in Mexico. Zero feedback accounts. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...-Camera-Black- Body-Only/284255178583 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Nikon-Z6-24-5MP- Mirrorless/144004765849 Eric Stevens: I'm not familiar with Ebay nospam: clearly. Eric Stevens: but as far as I can see both cameras come from the same Brooklyn site. How can you tell otherwise? nospam: look again. the first is from brazil and the second is from mexico. both sellers joined ebay last week. the description text is the same for both, other than one using line breaks. it screams scam. Thank you for your most helpful advice. Neither I or CtrlF can find the word Brazil or Mexico on that page. Nor does my poking around the corners of those pages. What I did find was the cameras were being:- "Sold By redtagcamera(76483) 100% Positive feedback" ... and:- "Based in United States, redtagcamera has been an eBay member since Aug 27, 2007" If nospam won't help me can anyone else tell me where the advertisements say anything about Brazil or Mexico? The listings has ended, you have to click "see original item" to go to the listing. Here are the URLs to each original page: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko.../144004765849? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=n c&orig_cvip=true Seller: chrita_1686 Location: San Luis, Mexico https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...ack-Body-Only- /284255178583? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=n c&orig_cvip=true Seller: robdan-8830 Location: Salvador, Brazil Aah! Thank you. I'm glad to see you are still around and watching. There is the problem. When I click on 'See the original item' I see "The listing has ended". The village idiot could have told me that but chose not to. Once again, thank you. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: There is the problem. When I click on 'See the original item' I see "The listing has ended". and next to it is a big button, 'show original listing'. another clue is the description of the original item did not match the listing you saw. it's not complicated. |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:46:01 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: There is the problem. When I click on 'See the original item' I see "The listing has ended". and next to it is a big button, 'show original listing'. Which produces https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...orig_cvip=true another clue is the description of the original item did not match the listing you saw. it's not complicated. But you seem to have been unable to distinguish the difference between "The listing you're looking for has ended." and what I wrote (as above) "The listing has ended". Count the words. The two strings are different. You weren't properly following what I wrote. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: There is the problem. When I click on 'See the original item' I see "The listing has ended". and next to it is a big button, 'show original listing'. Which produces https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...-Body-Only-/28 4255178583?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt =true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true another clue is the description of the original item did not match the listing you saw. it's not complicated. But you seem to have been unable to distinguish the difference between "The listing you're looking for has ended." and what I wrote (as above) "The listing has ended". Count the words. The two strings are different. You weren't properly following what I wrote. i'm not the one having trouble. *you* are the one who is not following what ebay wrote, which is why you failed to find the proper item and *still* don't understand how it all works. in addition to the 'the listing you're looking for has ended' text is also a 'show original listing' button to the right, both of which are *inside* a banner (another clue). below that banner is large bold text that states 'we found something similar' along with a similar item, plus a few more below that. guess what all of that means. after clicking on the original listing button, which you eventually claimed to have done, the text at the top will change to say the listing has ended because you're now looking at a *different* listing, in this case, the original listing which already ended and is no longer accepting bids. yet another clue is that the original listing shows the location of the seller as the same as the location mentioned in the original post here. it's not complicated. once again you screwed up and are blaming everything other than yourself, what you normally do. |
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Example of how people get scammed on Ebay
In article , Eric Stevens wrote:
Sandman: The listings has ended, you have to click "see original item" to go to the listing. Here are the URLs to each original page: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Camera-Niko...MP-Mirrorless- /144004765849? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc &orig_cvip=true Seller: chrita_1686 Location: San Luis, Mexico https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nikon-Z6-24...ra-Black-Body- Only- /284255178583? _trksid=p2349526.m4383.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc &orig_cvip=true Seller: robdan-8830 Location: Salvador, Brazil Aah! Thank you. I'm glad to see you are still around and watching. Well, more or less, some bug in parsing had made rpd unavailable to me a while back so I removed it from my feed, and then I wondered why there weren't any new posts, so I fixed it There is the problem. When I click on 'See the original item' I see "The listing has ended". The village idiot could have told me that but chose not to. Once again, thank you. No problem, Ebay is pretty stupid to show *another* similar listing when you click on a listing that has ended, especially displaying it so prominently. What it should do is show the top "the item has ended" info, and then smaller links to similar items, not an entire listing, makes you think that's what the link goes to. -- Sandman |
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