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Phony Ebay Healeys
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What is the scam?
Keoke
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Two or Three phony Ebay Healeys are showing up with low buy it now prices. Be careful.
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No I have not located them yet. However, I do see that "Phase 1 1/2 @ $65,000.00", Allegedly by Kovacks with the eyebrow on incorrectly and something I can not put my finger on wrong with the entire shape of the grill area. Take a Look.--Keoke
Two or Three phony Ebay Healeys are showing up with low buy it now prices. Be careful.
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No I have not located them yet. However, I do see that "Phase 1 1/2 @ $65,000.00", Allegedly by Kovacks with the eyebrow on incorrectly and something I can not put my finger on wrong with the entire shape of the grill area. Take a Look.--Keoke
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I reported eBay a scam earlier today for an amazing
looking MGB Healey 3000 for sale for $4800.
The scammer probably hijacked the eBay account of an
innocent ebayer(s) who only used his account a couple
of times a couple years ago and probably forgot about
it.
Ofcourse it's very easy to download quality pics from
various websites.
New in this listing: the scammer disabled all eBay
links and substituted them with a mailto: his gmail
email address, so clicking on 'ask seller a question'
etc only brought up your favorite emailer with his
address already filled in...
When I checked back a couple of hours later, this
fraud listing was off ebay (I assume eBay removed the
listing) but another Healey was now for sale, for the
same price clearly from the same scammer.
Filling in the following keywords "buy it now" and
limiting the amount from $100 to $100 (min/max price)
in eBay motors brought another surprise: 36 listings
with the same formatting and clearly the same scam,
listing Healeys, corvettes, hot rods and muscle cars
for sale for either $4800, $6400 or $6500. Minutes
later the amount of listings went up to 45!
Clearly this scammer has an (semi-) automatic way of
submitting multiple listings, probably faster than we
can report and faster than ebay can remove them. This
scammer is operating on a large scale and only needs a
small succes-rate, kind of an ebay-spam-scam.
Reporting these scams on eBay is not easy, maybe I am
overlooking the obvious but after navigating through
the labyrinth of menus and questions I reported this
again an hour ago. You might still find these
listings tonight if you enter the keyword mentioned
above. (Currently down to 20+ listings)
I hope eBay finds some way to filter out these scams
and makes it easier to report them.
Happy healey-ing,
Bert Van Brande
Newbury Park, CA
56 BN2 'work in progres'
looking MGB Healey 3000 for sale for $4800.
The scammer probably hijacked the eBay account of an
innocent ebayer(s) who only used his account a couple
of times a couple years ago and probably forgot about
it.
Ofcourse it's very easy to download quality pics from
various websites.
New in this listing: the scammer disabled all eBay
links and substituted them with a mailto: his gmail
email address, so clicking on 'ask seller a question'
etc only brought up your favorite emailer with his
address already filled in...
When I checked back a couple of hours later, this
fraud listing was off ebay (I assume eBay removed the
listing) but another Healey was now for sale, for the
same price clearly from the same scammer.
Filling in the following keywords "buy it now" and
limiting the amount from $100 to $100 (min/max price)
in eBay motors brought another surprise: 36 listings
with the same formatting and clearly the same scam,
listing Healeys, corvettes, hot rods and muscle cars
for sale for either $4800, $6400 or $6500. Minutes
later the amount of listings went up to 45!
Clearly this scammer has an (semi-) automatic way of
submitting multiple listings, probably faster than we
can report and faster than ebay can remove them. This
scammer is operating on a large scale and only needs a
small succes-rate, kind of an ebay-spam-scam.
Reporting these scams on eBay is not easy, maybe I am
overlooking the obvious but after navigating through
the labyrinth of menus and questions I reported this
again an hour ago. You might still find these
listings tonight if you enter the keyword mentioned
above. (Currently down to 20+ listings)
I hope eBay finds some way to filter out these scams
and makes it easier to report them.
Happy healey-ing,
Bert Van Brande
Newbury Park, CA
56 BN2 'work in progres'
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[ QUOTE ]
Two or Three phony Ebay Healeys are showing up with low buy it now prices. Be careful.
[/ QUOTE ]
No I have not located them yet. However, I do see that "Phase 1 1/2 @ $65,000.00", Allegedly by Kovacks with the eyebrow on incorrectly and something I can not put my finger on wrong with the entire shape of the grill area. Take a Look.--Keoke
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Is this the one?
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"Restored by Fourintune in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. If you have studied the pictures, you have likely seen the inconsistency between the pictures, the serial number and the year. This car was modified during restoration to be a Phase I car as far as the sheet metal is concerned. The main distinction you may have noticed is only one marker light under the headlights, a single taillight with reflector above at the rear and a non-locking sweep door handle at both doors. The lines of the car are much cleaner as a result. The remainder of the car is all Phase II."
D
[ QUOTE ]
Two or Three phony Ebay Healeys are showing up with low buy it now prices. Be careful.
[/ QUOTE ]
No I have not located them yet. However, I do see that "Phase 1 1/2 @ $65,000.00", Allegedly by Kovacks with the eyebrow on incorrectly and something I can not put my finger on wrong with the entire shape of the grill area. Take a Look.--Keoke
[/ QUOTE ]
Is this the one?
Quote:
"Restored by Fourintune in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. If you have studied the pictures, you have likely seen the inconsistency between the pictures, the serial number and the year. This car was modified during restoration to be a Phase I car as far as the sheet metal is concerned. The main distinction you may have noticed is only one marker light under the headlights, a single taillight with reflector above at the rear and a non-locking sweep door handle at both doors. The lines of the car are much cleaner as a result. The remainder of the car is all Phase II."
D
The scams I was allerting you about were the same as Bert mentioned: two with Buy It Now prices of $6400 and one with a Buy It Now price of $4800. All have been removed from the Healey Ebay site at this time. The seller requests that you contact him at a private email, not thru ebay. Generally he is out of the country, so you can not view the car, but he will ship the car as soon as you wire him funds, again outside of ebay or paypal. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
bighealeysource
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Hello all,
I have actually been successful buying and selling a 100-4
and 49 MG TC over ebay. It can work great if you are careful and have the advantage of being in the Healey Club
and finding a member where the car is located to check it
out. The scams seem to come up all the time now and as others have mentioned the come on is "buy it now" for an
obvious low price like the $6400 or $4800 for a restored
big Healey. If you click on the scammer's e-mail address
I have been warned that you are then subject to being
hacked for everything including your first born male child !
Ebay recommends that if you mistakenly did click on the
other e-mail address they try to get you to use, to go into
your ebay and PayPal account ( if you have one) and change
all your passwords and some other info to protect yourself.
I guess these guys pulling this junk figure they will snag
someone looking for the proverbial great deal. You will
occasionally see a Healey listed that actually is a legitimate ad at a good "buy it now " price but unfortunately you have to approach those with caution too
but if you send them e-mails through the ebay site you
should be okay to at least determine if everything is okay.
As everyone has said, there are more crooks out there now
than ever before and we have to be even more careful.
Regards,
Mike "Big Healey Source"
I have actually been successful buying and selling a 100-4
and 49 MG TC over ebay. It can work great if you are careful and have the advantage of being in the Healey Club
and finding a member where the car is located to check it
out. The scams seem to come up all the time now and as others have mentioned the come on is "buy it now" for an
obvious low price like the $6400 or $4800 for a restored
big Healey. If you click on the scammer's e-mail address
I have been warned that you are then subject to being
hacked for everything including your first born male child !
Ebay recommends that if you mistakenly did click on the
other e-mail address they try to get you to use, to go into
your ebay and PayPal account ( if you have one) and change
all your passwords and some other info to protect yourself.
I guess these guys pulling this junk figure they will snag
someone looking for the proverbial great deal. You will
occasionally see a Healey listed that actually is a legitimate ad at a good "buy it now " price but unfortunately you have to approach those with caution too
but if you send them e-mails through the ebay site you
should be okay to at least determine if everything is okay.
As everyone has said, there are more crooks out there now
than ever before and we have to be even more careful.
Regards,
Mike "Big Healey Source"
SHG
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I've been a regular ebay shopper for a long time, not as bad as Keoke but pretty bad. There's a zen to ebay, in language, presentation, feedback, the whole shooting match. Once you've got the feel, you can smell the scams right away. You can also feel the reserves, and you can give a pretty good estimate of who your competition is and how they bid. There are lots of tricks to it to win, and plenty of clues when there are problems.
The easiest thing to do to test a listing to see if it's legit is to ask for a photo of something not on the listing. Any legit seller will happily do it. If they refuse or make excuses, you have your answer. Excuses and explanations are always a dead giveaway that there are problems, because legit sellers WANT to sell, and try to accomodate. There's a pretty long list of obvious signs of scams, but anyone seriously interested in buying on ebay needs to spend some time there, get the feel of the joint, before buying or there's a good chance you'll get burned. But once you spend that time, you can get amazing things at amazing prices and you'll be hooked.
The easiest thing to do to test a listing to see if it's legit is to ask for a photo of something not on the listing. Any legit seller will happily do it. If they refuse or make excuses, you have your answer. Excuses and explanations are always a dead giveaway that there are problems, because legit sellers WANT to sell, and try to accomodate. There's a pretty long list of obvious signs of scams, but anyone seriously interested in buying on ebay needs to spend some time there, get the feel of the joint, before buying or there's a good chance you'll get burned. But once you spend that time, you can get amazing things at amazing prices and you'll be hooked.
tahoe healey
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Interesting NUDE on the Ebay Austin Healey. Got my attention but it is just another way to scam you. Asks for your credit card number.