From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 19:42:26 PST
You can verify if the guy is really the seller by sending the person a message
through the eBay system addressed to the seller's user ID. eBay also has a
'second chance offer' mechanism. Try that.
-John
everette wrote:
> I bid on at item offered on ebay - did not have real need for the item but
> it was priced cheap so I bid, was outbid and I made one more bid and
> stopped. Day or so after sales closed I got an email from seller - at least
> said was seller - Stating that the purchaser had backed out and if I was
> still interested I could have the item for my last bid plus one dollar, I
> replied "sure how do I complete the sale?".
>
> I then got a reply that said -- I will call you and you give me your credit
> card, or debit card information and I will ship merchandise.....
>
> All sorts of bells and whistles went off in my head, I am going to give this
> information over the phone to some individual I never heard of!!!!!!!!!! not
> very likely
>
> Everette
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