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The yellow BE with black strip has been relisted on ebay as item 180078578167 with a starting bid of $100 and without a buy now. When you go to that item number the page comes up for a second then a second page appears with the same car listed as item 160078163908 and a buy now of $2900 and a different seller.
 
when the first page comes up it also has a different seller id and feedback rating
 
Two people selling the same car?

I just went and looked and could only find the one with the "buy now" price by doing a search with the item #s!!
 
use the 180078578167 and watch carefully as the first one only appears for a split second
 
First page only appears for an instant before the second page appears over the first. First page has a "watch this item" bar. Second (scam) page does not.
 
Just looked at it again and it did what you said when I searched for the 18...number. It goes by too quick, but I did pick up an "ending date" in Feb. and it was located in Orlando, Fl. The 16...number does not list a location!!! Wonder what the scam is? Has this car been offered before?
 
Did you read the write-up? That's absurd...Who would spend $50,000 doing up a bugeye? Of course it didn't meet the reserve (I wonder what it was!!). It's kind of funny really after you read the write-up and then see it in the current auction with a bid of $100!! hehehe! If what is written is true, that would have to be one of the best BEs out there!!
 
I am quite sure Team Sprite, and Air Vice Marshal Laird, and Spritenut, can do as good a job, for less.
 
I think we may even have a few "newbies" who can do as well!

Gimme $50,000 to put into mine and I think I could do a LOT better!!! Team Sprites car is "correct" as are the others (perhaps to a more personalized degree), but that car as described has many "features" that certainly would cost points at a concours, to say the least!
 
Of course, it's nowhere close to stock; some people like that, others not. I have more trouble with the fact that it's supposed to be a show car. If you buy it and drive it, it loses much of its value, since it's not "pristine" any more. But if you buy it to show--what's the point? To show off someone else's work? If you do win an award, what have you accomplished?

Or, maybe I'm just becoming even more of a curmudgeon as I get older. Yeah, probably.

Seems that the scam listing has disappeared. Report these to eBay and they disappear pretty fast. Just a couple days ago, I did a search under, simply, Austin Healey, and one of the items simply showed a near-pornographic picture. Click on the item (who wouldn't?) and it transferred me to an obviously fake sign-in page. Heaven knows what else that page tried to load on me--did a spyware and virus scan right away. Fortunately, it came out clean, probably in part because I use Firefox, not IE.
 
Whitephrog said:
The yellow BE with black strip has been relisted on ebay as item 180078578167 with a starting bid of $100 and without a buy now. When you go to that item number the page comes up for a second then a second page appears with the same car listed as item 160078163908 and a buy now of $2900 and a different seller.
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Good eye on this Ray, I emailed Ebay on it and got this reply today.


Thank you for writing eBay in regard to your concern on item number
180078578167 directing you to another item when you check on it.

After reading your message, I immediately checked your concern William
and found that the item number you reported were the result of an
unauthorized account takeover. We were not aware of this activity until
after the listings appeared on the site.

As soon as we became aware that an unauthorized person took over this
account, we reacted immediately to resolve the problem. We are currently
in the process of restoring the account to its true owner.

There are a number of possible ways this account takeover might have
occurred:

- The seller may have had a simple password or password hint question
that someone could easily guess.
- A computer virus that logs and records keystrokes may have detected
the password.
- The seller could have unknowingly revealed the password to another
party.

Thank you for your time.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]There are a number of possible ways this account takeover might have
occurred:

- The seller may have had a simple password or password hint question
that someone could easily guess.
- A computer virus that logs and records keystrokes may have detected
the password.
- The seller could have unknowingly revealed the password to another
party.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, the poor guy probably "unknowingly revealed the password" when he logged into what he thought was a legitimate page, created by the same scoundrel.

I really enjoy eBay. I've learned a lot just by skulking through listings, not just about LBCs and such, but also about classic bicycles, my other passion. I've equipped my microwave laboratory largely from eBay purchases and help from people I've met through eBay. But I'm really afraid that the progressively increasing scam activity will ruin it. They really try hard to stop it, but one eBay isn't much against a million slimebags.
 
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