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Alembic scam?

#4
You know, what's funny about this (or sad, maybe).....

I check eBay for Alembics being auctioned on a regular basis. Not because I'm in the market, but because I'm watching for one of mine to go "on sale". There are so many pictures of my Alembics on the net that I recognize the possibility that they may be used to try to scam somebody.

Peace,

James
 
#5
malthumb said:
You know, what's funny about this (or sad, maybe).....

I check eBay for Alembics being auctioned on a regular basis. Not because I'm in the market, but because I'm watching for one of mine to go "on sale". There are so many pictures of my Alembics on the net that I recognize the possibility that they may be used to try to scam somebody.

Peace,

James
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Hi James,

A while back I bought one of my Alembics on ebay. After the auction ended I went and picked it up locally. About 4 weeks later I got one of my ebay 'saved searces' emails for Alembics and scrolled through it for amusement. Lo and behold, there's a listing for my bass, auction US based (I'm in Australia) this time, and even included a typo in the original, but not the serial number or the photo of it. It was basically a cut and paste of the original auction page with the small mods mentioned. The "seller" was new, and had one feedback (from another one feedbacker) for an antique $US15k katana. Yeah, right.....

This looks like the same scam, but with the locations reversed. New seller, cut and paste from the earlier listing, including the logo they used. Seller is now in Florida instead of NJ.

If you're going to try something like this, why choose such a unique bass, even for an Alembic?
 
#8
niftydog said:
...and the auction was pulled with a few hours to go and nothing but one retracted bid.
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Auctioncafe told me they'd emailled ebay to inform them that the pix were used from their original listing without permission and that it was bogus. The bidder pulled his bids after getting emails from me and a few other Alembic fans
I tried sniffing out the guy by asking some legit questions, a few hours later, no more auction!
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Ebay are pretty good IME at removing dodgy listings. It just takes them a while. I noticed it missing late last night when it was gone from my watch list.

Good to see that in the end no one got rorted by this.
 
#9
a little late, but I just received this email from the current scammer;

Hello and sory for the delay,
I received your email regarding my ALEMBIC Series II Custom 5 String Bass
Guitar Coco Bolo.
The auction is closed but the bass is still available.
The bass guitar is in perfect condition.The price with shipping included, is
$4,200.00 AUS.
Shipping will be done with UPS and will take no more then 2-3 days.
All the history of my guitar is in english.
The product is in Europe,Greece and it will be shipped from here on my
expense.
The most important thing in all my activity here is that I am affiliated at
Ebay Square Trade.
And if you are agree,please reply with your name and shipping adress in your
next mail for send them your personal dates necessary for the purchase.
I will wait for your email to let me know if you are interested in knowing
more details about the purchase.
Thank you
Clara Lyons
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Ah, the ol' "square trade scam" huh!?

hmmm, lets see, zero feedback, member since 7/8, no longer a member, five other similar user ID's...
 

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