This looks tempting: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=4570747979&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT Anyone know this car?
It looks great. If you are smart & don't like getting the shaft, ask all you want, and bid & buy. Just make sure you go look at it before paying. I am amazed at all of the scams on ebay(not saying if this is one).
Agreed, this one looks funny. I'm only about 4 hours away though, so I would look at it in person before turning over any funds. I sent him an e-mail but have not heard back yet.
It was fraud. I had e-mailed the guy with my phone numbers and asked him to call me. Instead I got an e-mail instructing me how to send money but no other way to contact him.
ebay needs to be reformed. i am so tired of being scammed ...it has gotten rediculous. i have not lost money yet , but very nearly on a watch. the only reason i did not loose my money is the fake seller attached themselves to an item being sold by a legit watch vendor. i had actually purchased a watch from the legit vendor 1 month earlier and chose to call them directly to ask of the details...they told me i was lucky that i called as i was about to be a victim of the scammers! i getting tired of ebay.
Even though I had proof of a car seller on Ebay who had created a "shill" account to bid up the price on his own car, Ebay was not really interested in pursuing him. Here was absolute proof and all I got from Ebay was "boiler plaate" replies and gratuious remarks. Don't bid or buy from Ebay Motors unless you see touch drive and thoroughly check out the car. If you get ripped Ebay will let you sink!
Here is the rest of the story: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Maserati-merak-1969-Chevelle-Malibu_W0QQitemZ4572148373QQcategoryZ6313QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I called the Dad and was told that he is also having problems with getting someones attention at EBay. He can't get anyone to call him and has no phone number to reach out and call himself. Also note that same people have bid on the car?! WTF?!!
Don't you just love this sh*&%! Ihave been playing with ebay for several years, but not on any big level (under 100 transactions). What I can tell you is that no one sells any decent car of any sort for whatever the market bears, everyone has a price that is the bottom line. My bank tells me that cashier checks, postal money orders, money orders are faked daily. I know of a local situation that a guy had a Chevy pickup for sale, a man looked at it, left , then called back. He even negotiated the price, told seller he would take it, just meet him at the local Walmart & he would be there with a cashiers check as his wife was shopping at the time. Seller sold truck for cashiers check which was fake. Check bounced. He called FBI. Meanwhile crook took truck & sold it for cash. New buyer contacted old seller because DMV would not transfer truck because title had been signed in wrong place. FBI contacted new buyer who got to keep truck until proof of ownership was proven. In the end old seller got truck back, new buyer lost about 9K. I almost feel like only dealing with big dealers anymore.
You do take your chances on Ebay. I have been using Ebay since it began. I have found that if you take your time and do your research on sellers, you can do pretty well. I have sold cars, and bought cars, including a Porsche on ebay. Everything has run well. I have bought half a dozen upper end instruments on ebay and other pieces of gear. A word of advice...don't buy something you REALLY need on ebay. If you are desperate, its probably wiser to buy elsewhere. I take my time and wait to get something that is coming from a seller i can verify as reputable.
I bought my 911 from E-Bay, sight unseen. If you are careful you can reduce the risk, but the risk is always there. When my request for information on the Merak was ignored and I was only sent instructions on how to send money, I knew this one was fake. If the price is too good to be true, 95% of the time it is. I had planned on driving to Tulsa to see the car before handing over any money. I did not have the same comfort level on this one as I did on the 911 to have it shipped to me. What worries me is that if you read the link I posted about the scam, my name is mentioned, though from Chicago and not where I live now. I am guessing that my name was taken by the scammer from the e-mail I sent requesting info. They shouldn't have anything from me other than my name and e-mail address, but you never know. I guess it was easier to just use my name rather than make one up. The guy who posted the new e-bay listing about the scam was taken for $5K. The car is located in PA and the pictures were taken from a dealer's lot.
I saw the same car posted locally on Craigslist. When I emailed to ask if the car was located in the SF Bay Area, I got this email (days later, mind you) - notice it doesn't answer my question: If you follow the first link to the website and search for Maserati, the car will pop up. However, no *real* info besides a cookie cutter description common of scam cars. However, I will say that this one is new (to me) in that I've never seen a full-on Scamsite that you can visit...
