Nervous transaction through eBay/Paypal.
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He's not bought 3 MacBooks. He's bidded on 3 MacBooks which again is perfectly normal yet has been turned into something suspicious by the scam crowd.
When I'm looking to buy something ill usually watch a few of the items and bid on them, increasing my chances of winning one within my budget.
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Why would you place further bids on a Macbook laptop when you've already purchased one?
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How do you know he has, 1 & 3 bidded at similar time <1 hour. 2nd one bidded before them. More than likely lost them auctions and won OPs, it's laughable using that screen shot as evidence of a scam, just goes to show you the level of hysteria we are dealing with.
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Well the auction for the OP's laptop ended 4 days ago, whereas the ebay screenshot suggests he has bidded since. But that may not be the case as it would appear the OP is Seller 1 in the screenshot. So it's not really clear.
EDIT: The Last Bid timer does infact shown the length of time between the auction end and when the bid was made.
So you may be right.
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Screenshot doesn't suggest anything of such, people really have no clue. Lets just scream scam instead.
All it's shows was he was bidding on other MacBooks AT THE TIME of or before bidding on the OPs MacBook. Probably lost them and won OPs.
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Well you can't definitively say one way or the other.
Only the OP can do an advanced search (as he knows the real username) to see what items the buyer has actually won in the last 30 days.
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If I'm correct the green signifies winning auction, hence why it's green and the others are not.
But I can state as fact that there is no evidence to suggest bidder has bought 3 MacBooks like some are suggesting lol
Quite frankly these scam shouters are probably going to end up costing the op in fees and loosing out in a sale.
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To carry on and sell it for profit later on?
I'm not saying it's not a scam just to make it clear....
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That didn't even happen though lol the times are stated on the screenshot
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lol wut?
I'm a bit confused now.
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Well apparently GD detectives can't tell the difference from someone bidding on MacBooks at a similar time or earlier from someone buying a MacBook and then continuing to bid on MacBooks after he has all ready bought one. This is even with the times stated clearly regarding bidding activity.
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Yea I'm being naive looking past the people screaming scam who have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. Linking to screen shots claiming buyer has bought three MacBooks (which funnily enough actually says the opposite) and is using the deviously delicious scam payment method of a PayPal echeque (which again funnily enough isn't)
Yep I would listen too these people too....fox news anyone?
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One rule with Ebay (and i'm going to shout it out).
IF IN DOUBT DON'T SEND ANYTHING
You have nothing to lose by saying no! you will get your fees back.
IF IN DOUBT DON'T SEND ANYTHING
You have nothing to lose by saying no! you will get your fees back.
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Ok Mr Charlie big ******** how about if the OP does the deal and it turns out to be a scam will you refund him the money?
** Please fully star out swearing **
Craterloads is the scammer!!
The buyer has clearly opened and new eBay/PayPal account used some stolen bank details to send the echeque, gives OP story about GF or some other ****. OP sends goods real account owner realise and reverses everything, seller is down one mac and the money
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The buyer has clearly opened and new eBay/PayPal account used some stolen bank details to send the echeque, gives OP story about GF or some other ****. OP sends goods real account owner realise and reverses everything, seller is down one mac and the money
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