another scam

gbf03 · #1 03-17-2004, 01:24 PM

Check out this scam, they have on ebay now. web page I e-mailed the guy and he said the motor was located in Germany, but it is registered in Maine. I ask for a vin number but he didnt produce one. What a load of sh!t. First they started this stuff in the trader and now they moved to ebay.

JohnS · #2 03-17-2004, 02:10 PM

Well, if the motor is in Germany and he is offering "free shipping", then I guess whoever wants to "be had" better jump on that offer. Interesting, in his feedback, he has never sold anything, just purchased things.

I wonder what would come in the box?!?!?!?!

John R · #3 03-17-2004, 04:11 PM

I did a lot of research on these jackasses last spring and found that the scammed engines showing up on Ebay were usually pics & descrptions of motors that were on BT at the same time. Then to make things worse they started advertising motors from adds on Ebay and placing them on BT for sale... All, of course, wanting to do a wire transfer...

I contacted both Ebay and BT several times to their fraud departments and neither could be bothered to get back on it. I had docemented several levels of scams but neither was interested.

Big thing with Ebay is you find one and check the items the seller has sold before and guarantee you won't find anything marine related. You'll find oddball stuff or stuff too old to list.

All those e-mails asking for your Ebay account info - whatdya think happens when someone is stupid (or maybe gullable is better) enough to reply to the e-mail with their account info.