Off topic a bit but something ebayers should know
ps I never trust anyone with 0 feedback on ebay anyway. All EBAY users warning, a friend of mine bought a Yamaha outboard on EBAY from someone with 0 feedback. So he paypals her, and starts pressing her for delivery. After a few days, she sends some crazy tracking number from a company in RUSSIA. He is pretty computer smart so he does some real quick checking and finds out it is a fake tracking number. He calls his seller back, and this poor woman had set up an ebay and paypal account in her name for some con artists overseas (or even here maybe). The deal is they solicit people and say since they are overseas they can't set up a US account. They get the first mark to set up the accounts and auction the item. The second mark buys they item, paypals, and then the first mark Western Unions to an overseas account. By the time the delivery doesn't happen, the overseas guys are long gone, and the first mark is stuck having to refund. The 2nd mark is possibly out if they don't rapidly recover thru paypal.
My friend was whining - he was like "My 400 US dollars probably bought someone a new house" I laughed, he can afford it - problem is the first mark was an unemployed woman in alabama with no money who thought she was starting a new career. sad.
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