Ebay scam or deal of the century????

Keanocp
Keanocp Posts: 60
edited March 2008 in Workshop
Check out this sale from last night http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-CERVELO-CARBO ... dZViewItem WTF

It would appear the guy accepted an offer of £150 for a brand new Cervelo Soloist Carbon with full Campag Record and Mavic Cosmic Carbone wheels!!!!!

The bike must be worth £5000 and all his feedback seems legit!

Am I reading it incorrectly or is he just a complete idiot!!!!

Then again maybe he was pissed last night and well pissed off today!

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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    It seems to pass all the usual checks for a scam, only thing that is worrysome is the price he sold it at! Maybe worth arranging a visit if you are serious about buying one of the 9 bikes he seems to be selling.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Weird that the guy declined £700, £350 and £300 before accepting £150.
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  • z000m
    z000m Posts: 544
    edited March 2008
    maybe 150 is the deposit
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  • Doobz
    Doobz Posts: 2,800
    nah what he did was end the auction early with a "best offer" of £150 as a deposit so he didn't have to pay the ebay fees for £3500. So I reckon the £150 price you see is just as the deposit.. Who knows.. Nice bike tho :)
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  • jonnydcp
    jonnydcp Posts: 30
    Just sent the winning bidder a message asking if its for real, keep you informed.

    PS blokes mad if he has sold it for that :?
  • huggy
    huggy Posts: 242
    May as well put an offer on his Scott MTB, just to test him to see if he is selling it for best offer price.
  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    Doobz wrote:
    nah what he did was end the auction early with a "best offer" of £150 as a deposit so he didn't have to pay the ebay fees for £3500. So I reckon the £150 price you see is just as the deposit.. Who knows.. Nice bike tho :)

    this will be what's happened i'd imagine - a deal between buyer and seller to pretend to ebay that it went for £150 - hence the lower selling fee;s (which have taken a turn up recently!)
  • wheeler585
    wheeler585 Posts: 552
    Yep doobz is right,i did that when i bought a look 585 the seller sold it to me for 1p,this was so he and i didnt have to pay daft ebay bills!!
    Up hup hup hup.....fricking hate that!
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    Or simply got a mate to end the auction without any adverse effect on feedback? Posh-bikes been around a while I think, no doubt plenty of friends in the trade to help abort after deciding against selling.
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    wheeler585 wrote:
    Yep doobz is right,i did that when i bought a look 585 the seller sold it to me for 1p,this was so he and i didnt have to pay daft ebay bills!!
    Risky (for the seller), that is a bit "obvious" on the part of the seller, avoiding ebay fees is against the rules (not that I care) but a bigger sum, like the £150, would have been much less obvious. The other downside is the loss of protection for the full sum, but thats not a big problem if its a reputable seller and / or you know where they live!

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