So I probably should know better by now and I’m sure others have seen this. There’s a seller on eBay - “avoneverywhere” joined in 2006 with 3207 feedback that have some high end and low end pokemon/magic items listed for auctions but essentially only use eBay to advertise a buy it now price in the description. Obviously that’s flag number one. Link to profile: Avon Everywhere | eBay Stores
At least a good handful of their listings appear legit-ish, about 20% off recent sold or current listings. But then there are obvious fraud listings like @smpratte’s illustrator they have listed:
I assume when you email them, they fill your inbox with spam or try and scam you. What I’m wondering is how does this seller still have an account? Unless they just started doing this very recently and eBay hasn’t caught on yet which I doubt. I’ve seen this before way back. Maybe selling make-up in the UK
which seems how they’ve built their false-credibility in feedback plays a role? Has anyone else had experience with this “seller” or similar? Scott’s illustrator can’t be the only example but that one is blatantly fraudulent, you think eBay would ding them.
My 2 cents would be hacked/sold account.
Try to get as much scam money in before the account is closed.
Hope for some unaware buyers who don’t see the red flags and hope they get a steal of a lifetime by buying an Illustrator for absurdly cheap.
Yeah strange. Not all are absurdly cheap though. There’s a bunch of ones like this where the price isn’t that bizarre. Like this one I picked out random which is about 20-30% highest BIN.
I could easily some people falling for this thinking - okay so they’re trying to offer a deal and doing it outside of eBay like IG which people often do and can go cheaper without eBay fees.
That makes sense. Someone hacks trustworthy seller and basically lists all this crap putting their scam email in the descriptions. Thanks E4! Good to know.
Unfortunately a super common scam. Clogs up my saved searches. @pfm hit it on the head, they are just trying to get you off ebay to pay with a non-refundable payment.
TO piggy-back, password-stuffing is robust and quick enough now that you should never use the same password twice.
Period.
Combinations to the wind, always change-up with complex pwds and/or use a vault. Definitely not LastPass…
Nice research looking into this more but you may want to edit the link so no one clicks through to the scam site just in case there are other security vulnerabilities associated to it!
