Stranger e-Bay question...

Rule of thumb:

If it looks to good to be true, it probably is.

 

maybe they hope that if they start the bids low than more people will bid on them?

 

To be honest, if it's just a couple of bucks or cents, then take a chance. Worse case scenario, you lose a few bucks.

 

Do you have a link? I didn't spend too much time but I'm not seeing them.

brad cook

 

Well the second one has been pulled already. So something is going on. I don't know what the hook is, but my feeling is run fast and far.

 

Yeah, and the first one's seller has 12 pages of everything from laps to bikes for 11 cents. RUN, FOREST! RUN! :scowl:

 

Maybe that one guy just has an OCD that causes him to be incredibly infatuated with the number 11.

 

There was an organised gang from Romania who were convicted recently in the UK, who were using eBay for massive fraud - big money!!

So what they would do was, as you say set up auctions (they never actually had the goods) for things which were huge bargains for very short times, but advertise that you could email them - then when contacted they would say : sorry you were just too late, but wire me the money and I'll send the (laptop or whatever) to you!!

:scowl:

 

I think it's far more likely that this is another scam where the seller(s) doesn't actually have the goods, but are just tempting people to send them money - unfortunately there are many people in the world, who are gullible enough to fall for this!!