Quick-ebay car-get it before it's pulled

[Steven B.]

Only $6500, buy it now. Shows no VIN, license plates. Is this anyone's car???

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevrolet-Corvette-1958-Chevrolet-Corvette_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6168QQitemZ260096058518QQrdZ1

[Jeremy D.]

Re: Quick-ebay car-get it before it's pulled

There's also a '65 BB for like $7300 too....didn't get a good look at the ad, but looked suspiciously like same seller. Hmmmmmm.....

[robert Hyler]

Re: Quick-ebay car-get it before it's pulled

This is probably a scam because you shouldn't be able to email seller thru ebay. I would contact ebay before getting very far in.

[Donald T.]

Re: Quick-ebay car-get it before it's pulled

Definitely a scam, and it will get pulled shortly. The seller puts an absurd buy it now price, but does not have a buy it now option on the auction. He wants you to contact him via email, so he can conduct the transaction off ebay.

[Steven B.]

Bid is now $1.1 million...

wow--and I was set to max out my bid at $800K. Oh well!!!

[Roy B.]

Re: Quick-ebay car-get it before it's pulled

View sellers other items ,he's selling more cars at the same price and people are bidding.

[Dick W.]

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Gone! 16:40 edt.

[Jim D.]

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These type of E-Bay ads are so obviously a scam that anyone that gets taken deserves it for being so damn stupid.

[Terry M.]

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Over the weekend I saw one of those news shows (20/20, or Dateline, or some thing like that) where they confronted one of the Nigerian scammers. They turned him around and he ratted on the gang in Nigeria that was sending the emails. One of his marks was a MD, another a women who spoke like she had more than one brain cell -- but they got taken in anyway. I think P T Barnum had something to say about these situations long before the internet.
They never did let on what they did about those in Nigeria – my guess nada. They will keep reeling them in.

[John H.]

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Last year the FBI's annual report stated that the Nigerian e-mail scammers netted over $56 million from Americans - that's just the scam e-mails (you've won the Transylvania lottery, help me get my dead husband's $35 million out of the country, etc.), and doesn't include the eBay car auction overseas scammers. Hard to believe there are that many gullible people out there, but one of the local church treasurers fell for it, and the church is out $300,000.00 as a result (and has a new treasurer).

[Terry M.]

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I can see where one might fall for it with OPM, but one has to be living under a rock or in a cave not to know about these people. 56 Mil is a big number -- I'm sure it goes a long way in Nigeria. What part of "If it is too good to be true, it probably is" don't folks understand.