From: Denis Hall (denhall_at_ismi.net)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 23:21:17 EDT
ABSOLUTELY A SCAM_SCAM_SCAM---
>"The seller wants only money orders or cashier's checks made out to CASH
>sent to Canada."
>Yikes !
>The made out to cash is a no go !!!
>Do NOT do that .
>
>If You do use a money order make sure it's a US Postal one .
>At the $800 level they'll follow-up on it .
>
>I assume you meant you contacted Yahoo ..not Ebay .
>
>BTW The circle scam was used a couple times recently on ebay
>i.e. references were all from each other, to each other .
>
>..peter..
>
>I wish you good luck with your purchase .
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Donald Malcolm MacQueen" <dmacq_at_erols.com>
>To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 6:49 PM
>Subject: More on cheap 600s on Yahoo
>
>
>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.]
>----------------------------------------
>I've tried the rest, now I use the best -- Smalltalk!
>----------------------------------------
>
>
>
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