Comments on: “Fun” with eBay http://blog.xcski.com/2006/03/11/fun-with-ebay Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:37:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Chris Norris http://blog.xcski.com/2006/03/11/fun-with-ebay#comment-1780 Chris Norris Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:17:36 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/03/11/fun-with-ebay#comment-1780 My wife is a frequent ebay user so I asked her to try and find me a Garmin 296 GPS, several appeared selling for around £400.00 which is less than half price new. On inspection of these auctions they all said to contact the seller at his aol email address in the same format you describe. She has since created a saved search and everyday new auctions appear which she then immediately reports to ebay. It seems the actual accounts being used are all hacked accounts, many of which have alot of feedback for buying and selling things like clothes, music etc.. nothing aviation related. Sigh... I guess these thieves must con people out of money else they wouldn't keep posting these auctions. My wife is a frequent ebay user so I asked her to try and find me a Garmin 296 GPS, several appeared selling for around £400.00 which is less than half price new. On inspection of these auctions they all said to contact the seller at his aol email address in the same format you describe. She has since created a saved search and everyday new auctions appear which she then immediately reports to ebay. It seems the actual accounts being used are all hacked accounts, many of which have alot of feedback for buying and selling things like clothes, music etc.. nothing aviation related.

Sigh… I guess these thieves must con people out of money else they wouldn’t keep posting these auctions.

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