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Hay every one, if you had been bidding on my White Opal and you get a second chance offer email: THAT IS NOT ME!
Danthedragon got a second chance email and alerted me about it. please report it if you get one, I don’t want you guys to loose money thinking it is a real deal.
Twopony won that dragon and it is already paid for.
I’ve gotten several. Even got one today for a curled dragon that Nirvana outbid me on. I really want to reply to these people and say “Ok, dumb@$$, most of us know each other” 🙄
And all you have to do is pay attention to who the bidders are prior to it getting beyond whatever the limit is… $200, I think? So if you’re Bidder 1 (or whatever #), and you rebid near the end, they know who you are if they were paying attention at the start.
oh man, are they up to that again? 😯 next thing you know, the fake auctions will be back too 🙄
Maebnus3 wrote:I’ve gotten several. Even got one today for a curled dragon that Nirvana outbid me on. I really want to reply to these people and say “Ok, dumb@$$, most of us know each other” 🙄
And all you have to do is pay attention to who the bidders are prior to it getting beyond whatever the limit is… $200, I think? So if you’re Bidder 1 (or whatever #), and you rebid near the end, they know who you are if they were paying attention at the start.
I know what you mean. it really is a relief that we know each other as collectors because it does help in descerning,” wait a minute…so and so one this and there is NO way they would not pay up on it.”
I think it will take a while to figure out how to stop the scammers completely. They have made a change, so that is the first step. Sometimes you have to take one thing at a time.
FWIW, I sold my mom’s Whelan dragons for her a couple weeks back, and a few days ago one of the losing bidders contacted me to verify a second chance offer they’d received. Not from me, the winner already had the item. So the scammers seem to be watching high end dragon auctions.
(and durn eBay wouldn’t let me reply to the losing bidder and tell tehm it was a scam! I contacted their safety with the details, hopefully they were williing/able to warn the guy.)Quickest way to get eBay’s attention is to forward whatever you get to spoof at ebay dot com. There’s also spoof at paypal dotcom for related issues. I had to replace the @ sign and spell out dot in the email address because I’m so new here that the system won’t let me post a link.
I guess almost everyone here would already know that, but it bears repeating.
ack! i just got an email from a past bidder saying that they received a second chance offer from me that i never sent! oh my god! scammer alert!!!!! what do i do?! tell her to forward it to spoof@ebay.com and ebay will take care of it!? this is terrifying, as someone could be thinking they are buying from me but are not then be out 100+ bucks and think i’m a crooked seller!! help! panic! eeeek!
Don’t stress out too much, TF. Do what you said; it’s the right thing.
I fell for it once… on one of your PYOs even… blah…well, i talked more with the person and they sent me the fake offer, very sneaky one it was and i forwarded it to ebay and they are looking into it. people are such jerks really! it is just so upsetting that there are people out there that happily scam others and take their money, while frogging sellers’ reputations. its doubly bad! everyone (myself included) work soooo hard for their money these days and its such a sin to rob someone of that hard earned money! i kill myself at my day job and heck i get upset if i get a bad dinner out – i think “dang i worked X amount of hours for the money for that meal and it sucked!”, let alone big windstone money being lost on scammers!! ack!
my god maebnus, i am so sorry you got gotten too! i am so embarrassed! 😳 hopefully you got it all sorted out and didn’t lose your $$!!! i’m sorry! at least we forum folks now know its going on as of late and what to watch out for- don’t trust any offers unless they are also in your ebay mailbox or waiting to be purchased on your “my ebay” page!! this creeps’ email on the offer was Best.Sales.Man@hotmail.com but for god sakes noone email him in case he can get info from you that way. you never know! just watch out for the email/name if you get any offers anybody!!tfsculptures wrote:well, i talked more with the person and they sent me the fake offer, very sneaky one it was and i forwarded it to ebay and they are looking into it. people are such jerks really! it is just so upsetting that there are people out there that happily scam others and take their money, while frogging sellers’ reputations. its doubly bad! everyone (myself included) work soooo hard for their money these days and its such a sin to rob someone of that hard earned money! i kill myself at my day job and heck i get upset if i get a bad dinner out – i think “dang i worked X amount of hours for the money for that meal and it sucked!”, let alone big windstone money being lost on scammers!! ack!
my god maebnus, i am so sorry you got gotten too! i am so embarrassed! 😳 hopefully you got it all sorted out and didn’t lose your $$!!! i’m sorry! at least we forum folks now know its going on as of late and what to watch out for- don’t trust any offers unless they are also in your ebay mailbox or waiting to be purchased on your “my ebay” page!! this creeps’ email on the offer was Best.Sales.Man@hotmail.com but for god sakes noone email him in case he can get info from you that way. you never know! just watch out for the email/name if you get any offers anybody!!Many scam emails are quite convincing… I know the ones I get are. It’s not really anybody’s fault except the scammers. The ONLY thing a seller can do to prevent it completely is to make their listings so bidders names are private from the get-go. But that’s no fun now, is it?
And I actually did lose money for that one, because I was dumb 😳 … too excited to get the dragon to notice the couple things that would’ve tipped me off 🙄 . It was your Purple Violet Silver one.. I lost by $2.50 🙄
*shrug* It sucked hard to realize what just happened. But it woke me up too, and now I watch things a lot better. So I just look at it as a learning experience, and thank whatever god there may be that it wasn’t on one of the really expensive things I’ve gone after. 😯
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