the thing about emailing him for his buy-it-now price is a red flag.

Jesus, not even that, the "***only 700 usd 2 for units***free ship***brand new***" and then the actual asking price $5,100 is a tip off if I ever saw one.

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They usually last half a day and then the auction is deleted ... but I think this shows a bigger problem that there's a huge security flaw somewhere on Ebay

$1 and 21 hours left...holy shite. Even if it is a scam...I can brag to my friends I have two CDJ 1000's!

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One other thing to check is what kind of items they have sold in the past. I picked some random auction from the search above and the seller had about 45 positive feedback. But they had never sold any electronic gear before and they mostly sold clothes and other little, random shit.

This is definitly a problem on EBay. Whenever I get something that costs more then $20 I usually only buy from a super seller that sells tons of that kind of item and has done so for awhile.

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Its abit safer if they are local and you can go and see them and inspect the item before payment.

I contacted one of these guys a while ago.. if you look at View other auctions, they're all high priced electronics, such as Plasma TVs, CDJs, DV-Cams, etc. All are about 1/2 of the MAP, all brand new, etc ..

Anyway, if you email these guys, they said that they need the money quick and paypal only lets them pull out $500/day, so to use Western Union BidPay and they'll overnight it for free.. hmm can you say SCAM.

Whats really annoying is the process to report this is soo long and frustrating that i gave up reporting these idiots to ebay because it takes too damn long.

i pity the noobs that fall for this kind of shit

i got my brand new Denon DN-X1500 very cheap off ebay. But before i did a few things.

1. Made sure the guy had a an AWESOME rating. i mean over 3,000 feedback
2. Check the things he sold for their worth. making sure that he has sold many high priced albums and not just 1,000 different pennies off ebay.
3. made sure it had Paypal protection.
4. emailed him through the ebay website to make sure that i was getting a brand new mixer, that's retail, not a b-stock, used, or damgaged mixer.


The shipping was FAST and the price was cheap. I have NO compliants whats so ever. If you are stupid and buy 2 CDJ-1000's for $500 from a guy with a feedback of one... you deserve to lose you money

I contacted one of them foo's and they say to look up references... and if you look up the references on google you get this nice blog with many people who have come across these ******s... with the exact same emails but with different items.... such as plasma tv's and laptops and cdj1000s and etc....

on the brighter note check out the counter scam PPP-note book that some one pulled a joke on the scammers...

http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com

it's pretty funny!!!

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i saw one of these scams a while ago for a pair of cdj-1000's for 700 bucks... i won the auction but then ebay contacted me and told me not to send him money. meh, chalk one up for a lesson learned in E-buying

a lot of these amazing offers occure when for some reason the seller doesnt promote properly and only two people actually view the item. then the bids end up low and when you win they say 'sorry, but im not willing to let these go for such a low price'

i won 2X techs 1210's in mint conditioion for £210 once and they told me to not send payment cos they werent selling them for so low.. at least they didnt take my money

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