This site is written by a college kid that needs to go to B-school. I went to college in San Diego which, as a whole, is a predominantly Military community. I, too, sold a car on eBay. I honored a low final bid on my no reserve auction although I should have just kept it. I didn’t care then and could care less ten years later about my “10” rating or ranking or whatever insignificant name it’s given. I sweetened my highest bidder’s prospects by offering only 200 miles free towing since I knew I could finesse it for free with my AAA card. My low bidder winner ended up being an out of town bidder, and got his car the night the money hit my PayPal. I didn’t hear about the eBay Motors’ version of eBay’s original buyer protection coverage until eBay called and said I didn’t respond to an email allowing eBay to fix the car that this old man blew up in two days. At first I them both to shove it since the car was my dad’s before it was mine, and ran and drove everytime it was started for years until the evening it was shipped to the buyer 150 miles away. I continued to contest the buyers’ crap shoot and eBays fraud, even when I was coached by the warranty representative, or whatever igsignificant title those boast, to just play along at no risk of civil financial penalty. Win-Place-eBay loses. I didnt care to leave this man car-less, so I ignored eBay. Everything about the ridiculous supposed scam dreamnt by someone smarter than you was a common scenario of a legitimate auction. I could not make up a story this coincidentally similar, down to the car coming from a military town and the coverage easily and always covering the car. This buyer, as any other can, finessed a luxury car and lied and said it was recieved needing the free eBay engine (installed). If your going to sell fear, write a false story as believable as this one. Details, not lame stories and an email address supposedly derived from cat devotion and an unlikely nickname. eBay didnt even ding me, and bought an out of state buyer a new engine for a car that ran. A stated shady number for which I searched brought me here. I’m torn. The numbers are an insult. If the email addresses displayed are simply supposed to represent even a small and consecutive selection from a larger list, they still do not convince a reasonably intelligent person that at least the ‘names have been changed to protect the innocent.’ All those Amy’s would have found something more unique to use once realizing their emails would be 99& identical to countless other(Amy’)s. These are supposedly just (some of) the Amy’s that scanned somebody and has a 10+ character email with one unique digit. Anyone continuing to scam under the same first name would at least be smart enough to switch up login names.
Scam reported at FightTheScams.com
Pay no attention to whomever is behind this curtain.