Ebay Scam....

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Ed Falis

>I'd received an offer like this back in December, but the guy had obviously forged someone else's identity. I let the forgee know so could pursue with ebay.

- Ed

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Ed Falis

>I should also mention that I got a real offer like that from a seller for a Magic Moulder. But all arrangements were above-board and verifiable in that case.

- Ed

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Thanks for the heads up Todd. Just amazes me the idea folks will come up with and think that they'll never get caught. Prisons are full to the point of over-crowding of them folks which should tell others that they aren't any smarter than a whole bunch of other folks who thought that they where.

Todd O.

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Dale Stansbery

>Ebay now has a "Second chance offer" routine that is to handle this very kind of offer from the legitimate seller. Of course I suppose a very creative thief could figure a way to simulate that also.

$2000 for binoculars, who's skinning who :-). I know, they got competitively bid that high, nice sale.

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paul womack

>Address is in the US but the email sounded like the fellow might be a forigner.

Could be a US resident using an compromised off-shore mail forwarder for secrecy.

BugBear

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Todd Hughes

>yea, I sort of felt bad for talking the guy I bought them off down from $25 to $20 but then he only paid $5 for them at a yard sale.....Todd

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>OK, you have my curiosity piqued - show us the binoculars!

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Todd Hughes

>I'm to much of a slowhead to figure out how to post a link but it is ebay #2240427550.......T.

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Michael Campbell

>Here's the link. =)


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Paul Kierstead

>Wow! That is a new one. I get:

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Dear User:

Unfortunately, access to this particular category or item has been blocked due to legal restrictions in your home country. Based on our discussions with concerned government agencies and eBay community members, we have taken these steps to reduce the chance of inappropriate items being displayed. Regrettably, in some cases this policy may prevent users from accessing items that do not violate the law. At this time, we are working on less restrictive alternatives. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you, and we hope you may find other items of interest on eBay.

Thank You.

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It is Canada! Not that much stuff restricted here, and steadily getting less.

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Mike in Mystic

>They're some Nazi U-boat binoculars. I thought for sure you must be in Germany, where it might make sense for this type of stuff to be illegal, but not in Canada. Pretty odd!

Pretty amazing.....

Todd Hughes

>but I guess your country feels it has to protect it's people from being able to look at photos of WW II Binoculars that don't even have any German markings on them.I think in the 1940's Germans could probably still look at pictures of Canadian binocs, somthing to think about, eh? ...Todd

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Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>Didn't you know? Someone might be converted to the "dark side" (whatever that is) by merely looking at those things...

We can't have that now...that would be BADTHINK... a THOUGHTCRIME!! doubleplusungood...

:)

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Paul Kierstead

>Well, it is not the government that has decided we can't see it, it is eBay. They have probably put a blanket stop to all and anything that could be Nazi memorabilia, so has blocked out entire categories.

However, I have never heard of Nazi memorabilia being illegal in Canada anyway. We have some very strict laws concerning the importation of certain "hate" items (but not possession, although distribution is sometimes covered).

I really don't see why it (the category, not just the item) would be blocked. I think eBay is being overzealous, I suspect the just blocked a whole lot of countries without inspection of each one.

This Canadian can see it

GolfSteve in Calgary

>I have no problem accessing the binoculars. I doubt this is a Canadian thing. Perhaps your ISP is in China?

Would not necessarily work though...

Tom Sontag - St. Louis

>This kind of scam only works when payment is made in an unrecoverable fashion such as check or money order instead of credit card or Paypal, right?

The lesson for me has always been to pay with a credit card or Paypal since both have ways of reversing the payment. Never use Western Union with someone you do not know!

This probably happens so often though that I doubt eBay policing goes very far. My guess is they send a hand slap email and move on...

Another Canuck Can too!

Brad in Ottawa

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Footnote on terminology

Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Todd Hughes had it right in labelling these as "German" military binoculars. As I understand it, the term Nazi refers only to Nazi party members who took over control of the country for 10 or 12 years (70 years ago) in the aftermath of WWI and the great depression. Most Germans were not Nazis. I only mention this because we have a number of German members of this forum, and we owe it to them not to equate German with Nazi.

Please forgive the pedantry.

Wiley

Just got a different one...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>...ironic timing. Dead give-away (aside from the non-eBay link address) was the first line: "eBay needs a correct information from you."

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Larry Marshall

>I'm in Canada and had no problem viewing your binoculars, Todd. Me thinks there was some sort of eBay glitch rather than any real prohibition. They even sell swastikas here.

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Paul Kierstead

>Very bizarre. I still can't see it; AFAIK, Rogers hasn't moved to China *yet*. I have had the problem on occasion of specifying things available to me and got all canadian and german items. Placed a message to ebay and they said there was nothing wrong.

Anyway, some kind of weird glitch. As said, Canada is pretty liberal about these things.

Back on topic, I got one of those fraudulent offers a bit back. I get so much scam stuff I don't even report it anymore...

This Canadian too!

Steven McKinley from Calgary

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>Do not assume that you can always get your money back from a credit card payment (unless your card provider guarantees it). If the crook empties the account into which the payment was made, the money cannot be retrieved. DAMHIKT