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I’ve learned just to ignore second chance offers after we got scammed on one for a white male last year. However, since I know I could contact Melody and ask about validity, I would check in on ones from windstone. 🙂 But I’d simply delete any others.
This is a very standard phishing scam!! Any items on eBay that get to high dollar amounts (really, anything above $100) will attract the attention of scammers. It is increasingly easy for scammers to create emails that look real (and sometimes, those that do not, obviously). I hate to put a demographics on it like this, but they are often out of countries where people’s first language is not English, so they may seem like they have a lot of typos and/or bad English.
Essentially what most phishing emails do are to make someone think they are real. They will typically have you log onto your eBay(or Paypal or whatever) account via link embedded in the email. This link will take you to a fake site that looks real, and once you input your username and password, they (the scammers) have them. This is one way so many eBay accounts get hacked.
Alternatively, the embedded link may take you someplace like Paypal so you can ‘buy’ the item they are pretending to sell. Only the site only looks like Paypal but is a phishing site. You enter your information or pay them, and not only do they get your info but your money too!
For the scammers that don’t have the resources to set up fake websites like this, they may send an offer to sell you whatever item (they don’t actually have). If you think it’s real, you send them your money and then you never hear from them again!
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My art: featherdust.compegasi1978 wrote:Except Windstone has done a second chance offer. The person ski had all the problems with selling her griffin to won a test paint Griffin and then didn’t follow through so ddvm got the second chance offer on him.
And may I say I was very happy when Windstone contacted me! But I did contact Karen directly to make sure it was a real offer – it did show up in my ebay messages so I was 99.9% sure it was legit but there have been so many bogus ones I wanted to be 100%. Karen was really nice and emailed me right back that it was legit.
That’s awful – Some people will do anything to make a few dollars. Is there anyway for ebay to weed them out? Probably not.
darjeb wrote:That’s awful – Some people will do anything to make a few dollars. Is there anyway for ebay to weed them out? Probably not.
Keep reporting the fake second chance offers to eBay. That’s all we as buyers (and sellers) can do really.
PhoenixTears wrote:Question:
OK, so if a non-savvy ebayer got this second chance offer and thought it was real, would they be contacting Windstone and making an offer? If so, it would end there. But, if contacting someone else, how are they supposed to produce this second chance Poad™? Would they just show a stolen photo of the Poad™ to say they had it, take the money and run?I think Windstone should add a disclaimer to their auctions that says there are NO second chance offers on any of their pieces. Or word it such that this kind of fraudulent BS cannot continue.We do give second chance offers if the winning bidder has a problem. However, you will get a call or email from Susie or Karen about it, in whatever official way it is done.
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