Klarinet Archive - Posting 000199.txt from 2005/02

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] eBay fraud (was: [kl] Stolen Saxophones)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:04:13 -0500


Audrey Travis wrote,
>If you discover these suspicious circumstances with
>saxes for sale on ebay, please supply me with make,
>model and serial number and I'll attempt to trace it
>from here.

Thanks for the warning, Audrey.

On the contrabass.com "Contrabass Maniacs" e-mail list, regular member John
Kilpatrick noticed something smelly happening on eBay. He warned us that a
con artist has signed on several times, using different screen names, but
offering nearly identical lists of hundreds of items each time (477 and
then 476 items at once in the most recent sets of sales). There's every
indication that these auctions are fraudulent. Alerted to this scam, eBay
has kicked out this person several times, but the same auctions, with the
same photos from the same catalogues, keep popping right back up.

In the last week, this scamster has signed on as andrewwilliam2005,
alexapam, beteherc and betahero. He or she signs right back on with a new
screen name as fast as eBay can cancel his or her registration. However,
because this jerk posts the same items again and again (some as private
auctions), the items themselves can be used to avoid getting victimized.
Here are three that the contrabass.com list has been using as red flags,
that appear in each of this scamster's recent groups of postings:

>Amati Model 340 German G Clarinet
>Diamond Violin Pin
>Buffet Bass Clarinet

Before getting involved with *any* transaction right now, it's a good idea
to check to see whether the seller is *also* offering those three items, or
if the seller has posted a suspiciously high number of items all at once.

Lelia Loban
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change!

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