cabby Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 A bit of ebay browsing and I end up looking at rather well priced (too good to be true type price) M1 Golf - very much a case of 'if its too good to be true . . . . . Advert wording a bit unusual - selling for a family member, contact John directly . . . . seemed a bit odd. So I checked-out their other items. All are 'new' listings with lots of exotic / rare / unusual cars, boats etc. Every advert is worded the same expect for some variations in price. I'm assuming these are a bunch of fake adverts hoping to punters to pay deposits or the full price to avoid missing a 'bargain' ('66 912 for £4.5k anyone). Surely ebay and it's checks / algorithms should be picking this sort of thing up? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-Mk1-golf-campaign-in-rare-helious-blue/302677781076?hash=item4679006a54:g:Hg4AAOSw5E5asXvG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted March 20, 2018 Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 Looks like the advert has been pulled already, that link doesn't open to reveal a listing for sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabby Posted March 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 The golf ad has but oddly lots of others are still there from same seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/familyman879/m.html?item=302677780828&hash=item467900695c%3Ag%3A7zcAAOSwpzVasXu8&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) The scammers have done an account takeover and will be hoping to find some sucker who's willing to do a quick deal off ebay site. ie: "Send me a deposit via Western Union and we'll sort out shipping" The Lancia Beta got up to £550 with 5 bids before it was pulled: Google Image Search The exact same advert is placed every few days under different account names: 1 , 2 eBay doesn't care that much, as long as they get paid for the advert then they're happy. Edited March 21, 2018 by Andy_Bangle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabby Posted March 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Thought it was something like that - they had about 6 pages of adverts on there at one point last night. Shame for the poor sod who has their account hijacked . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 I saw my current S8 up in eBay twice after I bought it. Same photos (hence the recognition) but the car was now in Denmark.... Dodgy bastards. I reported it to eBay and it took them a few to remove each time. A bit slow and a bit poor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Cruiser, is the D3 A8 you chopped in for the D3 S8 currently for sale? Think I saw it the other day on AT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasdrury Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 10 hours ago, Ian_C said: Cruiser, is the D3 A8 you chopped in for the D3 S8 currently for sale? Think I saw it the other day on AT It was a D4 A8 for the s8 wasn’t it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_C Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Er, I did that on purpose with people accusing me of having an encyclopedic photographic memory...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I cannot see it. DA62 is the beginning of the plate (or was) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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