From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 22:06:22 EDT
Seems like an obvious scam.
Donald Malcolm MacQueen wrote:
>
> Before I sent my money off to Canada, I did some checking. I sent the
> following to eBay customer support:
>
> I won auction 23317486. It is for an IBM ThinkPad 600e laptop. I got
> it for the ridiculously low price of $800.
>
> The seller (playin586) last week sold 15 of these for $925. All nine
> buyers left feed back for him within 1 hour of each other. The
> feedback left for each of them on their auctions comes from one of the
> other eight people in the group of nine.
>
> The seller wants only money orders or cashier's checks made out to
> CASH sent to Canada.
>
> This sounds fishy to me. I have emailed the seller and asked him for
> the email
> address of one of last week's buyers. I will send the money only then.
>
> Please check this out. Also consider alerting firework21_kr who won 14
> units
> before he sends his money off to a possible never-never-land.
>
> I will let you know what I hear back from user Playin586. Thanks.
> Donald
>
> ---
> Donald M. MacQueen
> Registered Smalltalk Bigot, [Esq.]
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> I've tried the rest, now I use the best -- Smalltalk!
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