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baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

Apparently another way the 'seller' is able to hijack ebay accounts is by getting people to e-mail him. The reply either via ebays system or outside of it is then used to place a virus on the receivers computer.
Ebay could easily limit the number of items a seller is able to list in a set period,which would kill off these scams but chose not to,presumably to allow the chinese to flood it with cheap junk.
I have given up reporting the scams,instead I leave a huge bid on them to try and warn others. So far I've won enough classic cars,boats and motorbikes to fill a dozen hangers and none have cost me a penny.
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

misterbridger · Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 46

I've tried bidding large sums just for the hell of it but ebay wouldn't let me do it!

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

The scammer is back again today with 2000 more listings so you can have another go.
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

Rootes75 · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:11 pm Post subject:

2000 listings, even the powers at ebay should see that as a scam.
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Various Rootes Vehicles.