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What the heck....Ebay strangeness

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chandman1004

Jun 28, 2008
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What is this strange store on Ebay ? There are many vintage bass and guitar listings, some listed multiple times for ridiculous prices . I am guessing I can't put a link , but the Ebay store is called AuctionCats. There must be some crazy catch.
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There was a link that i have now removed Originally the listings were for actual items put up by some sort of scam type thing. Items were vintage instruments art very low prices. Now the items have been taken down and the original link goes to a book.
 
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chandman1004 said:
What is this strange store on Ebay ? There are many vintage bass and guitar listings, some listed multiple times for ridiculous prices . I am guessing I can't put a link , but the Ebay store is called AuctionCats. There must be some crazy catch.
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I think you could have put a link, folks do it all the time. If the prices are too good to be true, it's a scam.
 
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esa372 said:
'59 Fender P for $4.25? MiniMoog for $20? '65 Stratocaster for $0.30? Neumann U47 microphone for $5.50? '69 Gibson Les Paul Custom for $1.00?

Strange, indeed.
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not particularly strange. they're just to get the auctions started.

and that's 99.6% positive feedbacks out of almost 8,000 sales plus this seller has been selling since 1999. probably not a scammer, but any ebay auction for something desirable is likely to go up to market price.
 
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Scammer. The exact same thing happens with vintage cars. Avoid. Nobody with access to those sorts of instruments would offer them on EBay with no reserve. There will be a rub, which will only become apparent once you pay their $1000 holding fee before they “bring the bass to your house” or whatever.
 
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esa372 said:
Are you sure? They have 99.6% positive feedback...
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They did. This is what happens when someone's ebay id gets stolen by hackers. They run the id into the ground, and the real owner gets screwed. It has happened to members on here actually, just was discussed last week (previous instances). Ebay will eventually clean things up.
 
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"There are many vintage bass and guitar listings, some listed multiple times for ridiculous prices"

And same item's auction ending at different times, item supposedly located in different places: looks very hinky to me.
As the old saying goes, "if it looks too good to be true..."

Whoever wrote the descriptions either knows something about stringed instruments or copied the descriptions elsewhere.
If those items/auctions were for real, there would be reasonable "bidding starts at" prices listed, IMHO.

Look at the feedback: I only scanned a few pages quickly, but most items are knickknacks and geegaws, mostly selling for less than $30 and very few for over $50. Even if you want to assume that that much of it is legit, that still constitutes a red flag. I didn't spot a single musical instrument supposedly having been sold.

If they can get enough people to say, "what they heck" and send $15-$20 on a whim, that still could add up to some money.

I'll bet that the seller disappears from eBay within a week.

Guess we'll see...
 
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Scam! No bidding! He wants you to send a payment to him off of eBay! Don't do it!
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