Re: WARNING
 

so what's new?
Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.

"maark" <studer67@iol.cz> wrote in message
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> On the eBay site is a twister:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2942681725
> Warning!
> maark
>
>

Re: WARNING
 

Looks legit. Lots of good feedback on camera sales. I would bit if it were
me.

"Brian Caldersmith" <briantc@NOSPAMbigpond.com> wrote in message
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> I am very new to this scene and was looking at purchasing an Olympus C-740
> from ebay at $760, because Australian prices are around $949 from normal
> retail outlets.
> Your comment has made me think this may not be a clever moove. I was
looking
> at this example:
>
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....category=30012
> which all seems to read well with good buyer references.
> I would be keen to hear any advice on the subject.
> Brian.
>
>
>
> "Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting@hornet.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:vi784ejpp50b3e@corp.supernews.com...
> > so what's new?
> > Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.
> >
> > "maark" <studer67@iol.cz> wrote in message
> > news:bg00op$1hmb$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...
> > > On the eBay site is a twister:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2942681725
> > > Warning!
> > > maark
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

Re: WARNING
 

the fact that he says "shipping costs will be specified later" doesn't do it
for me.

"Sam Anderson" <sam.anderson@snet.net> wrote in message
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>
> Looks legit. Lots of good feedback on camera sales. I would bit if it
were
> me.
>
> "Brian Caldersmith" <briantc@NOSPAMbigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:3f23a9b2$0$26535$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> > I am very new to this scene and was looking at purchasing an Olympus
C-740
> > from ebay at $760, because Australian prices are around $949 from normal
> > retail outlets.
> > Your comment has made me think this may not be a clever moove. I was
> looking
> > at this example:
> >
>
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....category=30012
> > which all seems to read well with good buyer references.
> > I would be keen to hear any advice on the subject.
> > Brian.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting@hornet.demon.nl> wrote in message
> > news:vi784ejpp50b3e@corp.supernews.com...
> > > so what's new?
> > > Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.
> > >
> > > "maark" <studer67@iol.cz> wrote in message
> > > news:bg00op$1hmb$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...
> > > > On the eBay site is a twister:
> > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2942681725
> > > > Warning!
> > > > maark
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Re: WARNING
 

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:40:23 -0400, "J" <jecebay@hotmail.com> wrote:

>the fact that he says "shipping costs will be specified later" doesn't do it
>for me.

He does? I must have misread the "free shipping inside Australia" bit
then :-)


--
Regards

John Bean

Re: WARNING
 

In article <vi784ejpp50b3e@corp.supernews.com>, Jeroen Wenting
<jwenting@hornet.demon.nl> writes
>so what's new?
>Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.

Well I don't think so.

I've bought over 260 items on Ebay and only once have I regretted it.
Then it wasn't fraud - the seller was very silly and packaged the items
badly in spite of my advice before despatch.

Of course you *must* know your prices and not bid too high, but that's
just like shopping in the high street. Convenience versus price.

Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland

Re: WARNING
 

In article <3f23a9b2$0$26535$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> , Brian
Caldersmith <briantc@NOSPAMbigpond.com> writes
>I am very new to this scene and was looking at purchasing an Olympus C-740
>from ebay at $760, because Australian prices are around $949 from normal
>retail outlets.
>Your comment has made me think this may not be a clever moove. I was looking
>at this example:
>http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....category=30012
>which all seems to read well with good buyer references.
>I would be keen to hear any advice on the subject.
>Brian.


Just be careful of GST on imports. AFIAK you can be charged tax on
delivery but I could be wrong as I'm not in Australia, but Europe. And I
don't buy camera equipment from the USA mainly because of the import
taxes and shipping cost.

However, whatever you do contact the seller and get a quote for shipping
before you bid. Only last won with a $1 bid for small book and got a $20
shipping bill.

(I sent the $1 and said not to send the item. It was worth it to get out
of the contract!)


Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland

Re: WARNING
 

Another warning flag is that seller only wants money order or cashier's
check. No credit cards or PayPal where there is a hope of recourse if
needed.
Also note that the seller has a similar deal with a "buy it now" price of
$1350 instead of $130. Could be an honest mistake. could be a scam. If in
doubt stay away.
Charlie

"Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting@hornet.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:vi784ejpp50b3e@corp.supernews.com...
> so what's new?
> Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.
>
> "maark" <studer67@iol.cz> wrote in message
> news:bg00op$1hmb$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz...
> > On the eBay site is a twister:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2942681725
> > Warning!
> > maark
> >
> >
>
>

Re: WARNING
 

"Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting@hornet.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:vi784ejpp50b3e@corp.supernews.com...
> so what's new?
> Over half of what you find at ebay are scams and fraud.
>

You are so right, Jeroen . Plese read this warning about EBAY:

EBay will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any
disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your
refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will
demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards; screw up the tracking on
your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try
to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-Aid
into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on
the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten
in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you
are late for work.

EBay will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares
about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both
your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the
dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is
the power of EBay, and it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things
we hold most dear.

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will
kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail
in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to
behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

EBay will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It
will make a batch of Meth in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on
the stove while it goes out to chase grade-schoolers with your new snow
blower.

Re: WARNING
 

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:13:01 -0400, "Charlie Bress"
<cbress@comcast.net> wrote:

>Also note that the seller has a similar deal with a "buy it now" price of
>$1350 instead of $130. Could be an honest mistake. could be a scam. If in
>doubt stay away.

I can't pull up the ad, but the above is most likely *not* a mistake
if the $1350 is a reasonable price for the item. The "buy it now"
price is for the people that don't want to take a chance on winning
the bid, and feel the BIN price is a good deal.

The Seller may start the auction at $1.00, or any small figure,
because some Bidders hope the auction will end at under market value.
The BIN price is no longer available once a bid is placed. It's a
one-time, grab-it-now deal.

Reserves are the same. A Seller may have a reserve of $1350 on the
item, but start the bidding at $1.00. The Seller feels the low
starting price will create more interest.

Neither a BIN price far over the bid price, or a high reserve with a
low bid, are any indication of a scam. They are just selling
techniques the Seller thinks might work.

The advice of "if in doubt, stay away" is dead-accurate, though. Even
if it's not a scam, a person shouldn't spend major bucks on an item if
the person has any inkling that he might not be pleased.

Generally, digital cameras don't sell for much less than they can be
purchased for at a place like Best Buy when you consider shipping
costs. Returns for defective items are complicated and expensive (you
pay shipping) and there's always the unknown factor from not being
able to examine what you purchase.

The guy that gets a good buy on a digital lives somewhere where
discount outlets are not in his area, where the Buyer is patient and
is willing to bid and lose on several auctions before he completes
one, where the Buyer calculates the *total* price including shipping,
and where the Buyer stays firm on his absolute top price and doesn't
just bid to get a camera.

I saved $44 on a Nikon digital (including shipping costs and deducting
the offsetting sales tax I would have paid locally), but it took me
about 10 auctions before my price was good. I wasn't in a hurry, and
was willing to be patient.






--
Tony Cooper aka: tony_cooper213@yahoo.com
Provider of Jots, Tittles, and Oy!s

Re: WARNING
 

Bill Crocker wrote:
>
> Recourse with PayPal! This is a joke, right? PayPal is probably one of the
> biggest scams on eBay! I don't accept PayPal, because of their outrageous
> fees!
>

Outrageous fees? You don't know what you are talking about.

2.9% is not outrageous fees. The bank takes 4.75% on my "regular" credit card
transactions, 3.89% on "touch tone" authorization. Only if you have a "swipe"
terminal can you get l ower rates with the banks.

Abrasha
http://www.abrasha.com