The E**y scam that gets you a car for cheap
Intro
For those of you that have bought and sold cars on ebay it soon becomes clear how selfish and lazy bidders are, when it comes to honoring their bid. I lost the 30% profit I was going to make on one of my cars, which dragged out the road tax and meant I had to sell it for less. I was pretty annoyed at the time that there was no way I could really get back at the bidder unless I saw his feedback next week, found that he’d bought another car, and gone round and took some value off it. I decided to have mercy on him, despite having his address and car details.
Getting the info on your chosen car
Lets say you want a good deal on a new car so you can make some easy profit in a few months, or just because you want a good car. Work out what car it is you want, then search for that model and ones similar to it. This will give you an idea of normal selling price.
Get the best ones and the worst ones and click the link “Watch item”. Make sure you can view them after the auction has ended. In a week or so when the auctions have finished you will still have all the pictures and details.
Creating the accounts
It may take a few hours or so setting up the seller accounts, but once they are there you can do this trick again and again. This should save you a few hundred pounds easily each time you do it. So its worth it. If you don’t want to waste time, just do it in work. You may want to borrow their address as well or someone’s anyway just in case E**y work out you have bid on your own stuff, but they don’t usually. You may want to set up a few car sales accounts, that way you could list a good few convincing classifieds (free) and get away with putting a few more cars on. The more the merrier. You can easily claim fees back again for the auctions. Remember to be vague with the item location part and use addresses in different parts of the country. They are easy to get hold of.
Listing the car(s)
You may want to adlib a bit when creating the details to make the item more attractive, to attract the people looking for this type of car towards your listings. I suggest you do about 20 listings. Make them as attractive as you can, realistically. Remember: you want the market. Go for generic non-motor names so you can do other big items. This is why you should have 2 or more ebay accounts. Wait a week or two after the original cars have sold just to be safe. Make sure you blank out the number plates too. Adding details like that extra turbo you had fitted on the BMW may increase interest too. Expect lots of interest, after a certain point all the attention makes you feel quite important, and the grovelling too. If someone makes a stupid offer you don’t like, agree to it and send them an email telling them you will meet them somewhere. That should keep them busy.
Have the cars ending roughly on the same day but with a few hours in between, because people will be weighing up the cars (not literally) and may notice.
Buying your car
There will come a time shortly after the listings commence, the when the bids rage sore, and auction fever sets in. You are manipulating unsuspecting little wretches towards a lake in a desert. Hurrah. While the bids rage sore, start looking round for the same model that has you’re interested in. If you see something bid once with one account (not too ridiculous but enough to make people loose interest) then get the other account and bid a few pounds higher. Straight away the price will shoot up leaving other buyers uninterested. They will also be occupied with your other 20 listings. Towards the end of the auction get in touch with the seller or close the account and he’ll be left with only a low bid. It is important you cancel the bid or close the account at the last minute. Even if you decide not to cancel your bid, it is important to make an intelligent first bid so when the final bidding account fails, you can email the seller and say you will give him slightly lower than your first offer, thus attaining a bargain.
Selling your cars
When the auctions for your cars is almost up, make sure you use one of your accounts and place ridiculous fail-safe amounts on each one. It is important to set some of the auctions to Private so that people will not see the winner. Eventually you will be able to set up listing and relist them for a few different types of car with no effort at all and control the market for more than one car easily.
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November 1st, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Yet another report about eBay and the fraud they try to cover up.
My trouble stated a year ago when I purchased a car via ebay and not only did this 2007 car not make it home but it turns out it had been involved in an accident and had been put back together so badly that it’s a write-off.
I contacted eBay and got messed around but also discovered by linking phone numbers and cars together that the seller hand no less than eight other eBay accounts making him a trader and knowing it is an offence under the 1988 road traffic act for a trader to sell cars in such poor condition I contacted the police who seem unwilling to do a thing about it saying it was a civil matter which I could understand if I had the fraudsters address to commence legal proceeding myself.
The police past me off to the trading standards who played me along for months saying they were waiting for information from eBay and by the time this information arrived the trading standards had changed their tune and said I didn’t have information to back up my claim that the fraudster had been using all the account however they did admit that eBay only had fake names and address for all eight accounts I had mentioned having removed all the relevant web pages and by now the trading standards were also claiming they could not connect the dots for fortunately I had manage to keep copies of the eBay listings, blowing that excuse out the water.
Soon it became a game between the police and the Birmingham trading standards who said they could not do anything as they could not find a name or address of the fraudster and the police who where saying it worth their time.
I complained to the police for not taking action who seem more interested in arresting people for eating kit-cats whilst driving than investigating a serial fraudster that has ginger hair and is well over weight and is selling cars from around junction 2 on the M5 in Birmingham and so I lodge a complaint with the so called independent police complaints committee (IPCC) who by their own figures throw 89% of complaints in the bin and all they did was stretch the things out and would not even address my allegations against the police.
Yes folks I know eBay has a lot of friends in high places but I didn’t know that included the Police, Trading standards and the IPCC and to me the whole episode stinks of fraud at the highest level and yet when I made request under the freedom of information act requesting crime statistics on internet crime I received a two page reply informing me why they were not able to furnish my request.
eBay apparently provides special training to thousands of police officer each year and I was wondering if they ask the coppers if they prefer cream in their tea when serving it up and knowing eBays reputation we can all expect the police will be asking the MAFIA for gun control lessons in the near future.
What should had been an open and shut case of fraud has now been dragging on for over a year and having been so appalled by the cover up I now run the eBuster,co,uk that has copies of millions of eBay pages thus ensuring eBay and the Police find it much more difficult to brush these crimes under the carpet as if they never happened.
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