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So someones made me an offer on ebay (only £50 less than price so would accept) but, in the message it says-
HI, ALSO PLEASE REPLY ME WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS BECAUSE I WILL BE WORKING, AND I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MY EBAY ACCOUNT. PLEASE REPLY ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS FOR A FASTEST RESPONSE, AND TO ARRANGE ALL THE DETAILS IF YOU WILL ACCEPT MY OFFER. THANK YOU,
Offer expires:14-Feb-13 02:47:22 GMT
Buyer user id:oddsocks41
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This wreaks of scam to me, with the grammer errors and the desperation for the email address, however the ebay account has been active since 05 with same name and has 159 positive feedbacks both buying and selling I read the message and expected to find a new user account with O feedback, so I've sent my email address just to see if its genuine or weather they want to pay me in camels through western union and ship it to nigeria so I've yet to see but has anyone any thaughts thanks

sound like he wants your email so he can do the deal outside the protection of ebay..

Hmm, wants everything moved 'off' the eBay reservation eh?  I would be suspicious too.

R

Got to agree with the above comments - sounds a dodgy to me.

No touchy with Argie Bargie polee!!

Very iffy, and you have no landline whihc is traceable to an address etc.

If they ipay cash or bank transfers money up front no probs . Avoid western bank transfers I believe they can be recalled

Lucky I wasn't born yesterday, I sent my email address through ebay to see what happened, low and behold he's emailed me (thaught he couldn't view ebay through the day?). And it says please click the link below to confirm its your car and the link expects me to sign in to ebay with name and pw I think not!

Haha, nice try. Report to eBay.

It's against the terms of eBay to go outside of eBay, report the user.

His message was dodgy from the start!

i since emailed him back saying- hi, do you realy think im going to put my details into your dodgy link? how about you piss off and try and scam someone else and i will be reporting this to ebay, thanks

nd guess what no response!

Lol well done !!!

Reported to ebay, and unfortunatly there is nothing ebay can do if users abuse the use of their account by trying these things outside of ebay!!  No wonder the site is rife with scams etc, I also reported a van that's for sale that's not the sellers as I know the owner and someones stole his pics form a previos listing, halved the price and listed it on one of them please email me, they won't do anything about that's either, I think ebay just don't give a f+@k as long as someones paying them, I supose even the scammers are paying listing fee's!!

[quote="shadrack"]
, I think ebay just don't give a f+@k as long as someones paying them, I supose even the scammers are paying listing fee's!!
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ebay will give a feck when they find out the scammer has paid with a stolen card...