View Full Version : eBay scams, please read.
Guy400
11-26-2003, 04:03 PM
Lately we have been inundated with threads regarding scams on eBay. We are all quite aware of these scams now and we kindly ask you to not post everytime there's a new one spotted. These scammers are selling everything from garden tractors, to off-road vehicles to Harley's. If you see any quad being sold on eBay that the asking price is freakishly low, you must be a pre-approved buyer, the seller has impeccable feedback, they ask you to wire money via Western Union and they do a $h!tty job of pretending to be a foreigner--it's a scam. Alert eBay immediately but please don't post about it in here. I know you are all trying to help but it's getting out of hand with all the threads. A word of caution, don't click the eBay link about becoming a pre-approved buyer. It sends you to a look-alike eBay page and it asks for your username and password. If you enter this information you've just handed your account over to these people.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
Bad Habit
11-26-2003, 04:07 PM
Ya, what he said:D
Thanks Guy, u da man.
Do you mean that i won't get the $2500 back that i sent for my new yzf450:mad: :devil:
Quad18star
11-26-2003, 04:21 PM
Hey Thanks for all the Info Guy400 ... You can now deleate my thread that I posted earlier ... I was really hoping that the YFZ was less than 4Gs :grr: AH well .. looks like I'll have to spend close to 10Gs and buy one up here . ****ty *** deal :(
stupid driver
11-26-2003, 04:30 PM
huh, theres scams on ebay? i dont believe it :rolleyes:
i just got this awesome deal though. I got a fully raceready quad w/ everything you can think of. bought it for 1200 buks. The guys in austria, but he assured me that if i wire the money i will have it in a week. I AM SOOOOO LUCKY :huh :rolleyes: :huh
03400EX_Nacs
11-26-2003, 05:45 PM
when it comes to fourwheelers i go and check them out myself cant trust anyone these days
Thank you Guy for posting this as a sticky. :D
Hopefully these scam artists will be caught and hung by their gonads... :mad:
Originally posted by MOFO
Thank you Guy for posting this as a sticky. :D
Hopefully these scam artists will be caught and hung by their gonads... :mad: i was thinking tie fishing line to both of their big toes, tieing it real right and hangen them by the fishing line until there toes get cut off..then repeat the process until all of their toes are gone, then make them bite the curb and stomp their face into the curb
Guy400
11-26-2003, 08:00 PM
Originally posted by nacsracer27
then make them bite the curb and stomp their face into the curb Someone else has seen "American History X":D
AtvMxRider
11-26-2003, 08:07 PM
Originally posted by Guy400
Someone else has seen "American History X":D
Hell yeah........ :devil:
Originally posted by Guy400
Someone else has seen "American History X":D :cool:
Diedrich
11-26-2003, 10:13 PM
great movie;)
Originally posted by nacsracer27
then make them bite the curb and stomp their face into the curb
I've seen the after result of this in real life... happened during an after school fight @ a store parking lot. The kid ended up having MAJOR dental surgery... not sure what the out come of legal charges were though...
i'm pretty sure this one is a scam...check it out guys...has pics of a TRX450R for a $3,000 buy it now. go to ebay motors and type in TRX450R...don't mean to post this stuff that keeps coming in but, my dad emailed the guy just last night...it did seem fishy...
stupid driver
11-27-2003, 10:12 AM
Originally posted by TC17
i'm pretty sure this one is a scam...check it out guys...has pics of a TRX450R for a $3,000 buy it now. go to ebay motors and type in TRX450R...don't mean to post this stuff that keeps coming in but, my dad emailed the guy just last night...it did seem fishy...
considering that the new honda hasnt even been released yet,
:o
Originally posted by MOFO
I've seen the after result of this in real life... happened during an after school fight @ a store parking lot. The kid ended up having MAJOR dental surgery... not sure what the out come of legal charges were though... :eek:
hondarider2006
11-27-2003, 04:26 PM
All of this is a good reason why I have never bought somthing from e-bay.....I did bid on an MP3 player once, but I never got around to e-mailing the guy. For some reason...I just don't trust what I see on there most of the time. And a trx450r going for 3,000 is a good reason not to believe what you seeon there, seeing as how its not even out yet:mad:
Quad18star
12-01-2003, 07:35 PM
There is a sweet houser crf 450 on there . Doesn't seem to be a scam either . Wish I had the $$.
cody anderson
12-02-2003, 04:20 PM
somebody had to say it...
diangelo#67
12-07-2003, 08:55 PM
some jerk is selling a picture of ellis's quad on ebay right now. this is bull she it. the kicker is the dude is selling like 12 quads for 4000 dollars seperatly but this is scum at it's worst
quadman21
12-10-2003, 10:29 AM
Also be aware of the scams where people are from overseas and wanting to buy what your selling. Again, the feedback is almost pushy but they want to send you more than what it's worth in a form of a cashiers check. Then they want you to wire the balance to their shipper once you cashed the cashiers check. This is a scam because the cashiers checks are fraud. They are hoping some teller at your local bank won't catch the phoney check and cash it. Once the check comes back to the bank with no funds you are responsible for paying the bank back. It almost happened to me because I was unaware of thius kind of scam and buy stuff all the time with cashiers checks and money orders. I just happened to call the bank the cashiers check came from and they informed me that they issued no such check and they had in excess of 5 million dollars worth of fraudulant checks being investigated. It was only luck that I caught it. Remember, cashiers checks are hand signed by the teller issuing them. Mine hand a rubber stamp signature.
yah..they tried to get me with that scam...when i saw the fake check they had sent me I told them it was fake & he got real angry with me & tried to scare me into sending him the rest of the money. I still have the fake check.
redrider69
12-10-2003, 07:38 PM
i would love to bite the curb and let someone stomp my face in that would just make my day
Torn66
12-11-2003, 08:49 AM
I have a 13k money order for my banshee pinned to my wall!!!
and when i wrote the guy a nasty e-mail calling him scam and calling him out on the scam- what did he do.....no joke he sent me an e-mail back with gay porn.....weird man!:eek2:
JabberJaw
12-11-2003, 09:08 AM
Wouldn't the person paying the money also be breaking the law?
Last time I checked it was illegal to pay money to get screwed!
there from another country so The FBI doesnt do anything about it....try calling them too...its pretty much a joke & they will laugh at you. even if you got ripped off.:rolleyes:
quadman21
12-12-2003, 06:08 AM
Jumbo747 is right. I called the FBI trying to do the right thing. The lady acted like she really did not care and told me there's nothing the FBI could do since the people doing this scam is overseas. However, she told me I could mail her the correspondence I had and the fake check so she could file it away:rolleyes:
stupid driver
12-20-2003, 03:38 PM
Heres a good one.
I was on ebay the other day, and there was an auction for donations cause this dood said his quad got stolen. It may be true, but more than likely it aint. All i know is i aint biddin for THAT auction:huh
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