Scam ? Or not ?

[UK WOMBLE]

Okey dokey, for the clever ones among you (That means not you cpuwiz )

 

I won this auction the other day, the seller emails me and says he wants cheque or cash into a high street bank account, seemed a good deal and I have paid cash and cheques before without problem.

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...me=STRK:MEWN:IT

 

 

So i email the seller and say I'll pay into his account tuesday (Today) , he sent me his bank details and all semmed well and good.

 

So this morning i get a slightly techy email off him saying do i still want the drives or not ?

Hello,

 

Do you still want these drives??

 

 

 

 

Many thanks

 

 

Send him an email saying of course i want them why did he think i didnt , i'd said i'd pay today anyhow ! (I ws very polite, as always ! )

 

Get this back : (Note the caps)

 

I SENT YOU MY BANK DETAILS TWICE & YOU DIDNT REPLY,THATS WHERE I GOT THE

IDEA FROM.

 

HERE ARE THE DETAILS AGAIN.

 

Now to be fair, i told him i'd pay today already, and that i'd email him with my address once i'd paid. So i send him an email saying not to worry, i'd pay today anyway, and not to get so impatient , but politely, mind you..

 

Anyhow, i go to the auction to see how much i owe as im about to go down the bank today, then i see he's NARU'd !! Then i look at his feedback and start to worry

 

look carefully at his feedback and those from the other NARU'd user on his account, looks a bit suss to me, bear in mind middlesex is basically north london, im thinking he's one in the same ...

 

 

Any thoughts please, i dont fancy being ripped off on over £300 (About $550 US) , maybe im being overly cautious, but maybe not.

 

Anyhow i havent paid him yet and have emailed him about my concerns a short while ago, awaiting a response...

 

Second opinions welcomed, thanks,

 

 

Si

[keilbaca]

10x 30 gb = 300gb. unless you can run them all, its a deal. Oh btw, if you have a spare, i can use one for my atari pc

[UK WOMBLE]

10x 30 gb = 300gb. unless you can run them all, its a deal. Oh btw, if you have a spare, i can use one for my atari pc  

 

 

 

I sell laptops for a living (As well as my HVAC work, im a busy boy ), just to clarify such a strange investment, and hard drives are a bugger to get hold of at the moment, my machines arrive mostly without hard drives as the corporates insist on them having been removed generally.

 

I get about 200 - 400 machines in a month without hard drives and i look to set up and sell about 60+ of those myself as well as laying a load off on a guy who selles thre lower end stuff for me, which takes it to about 100 or so hard drives a month i need !!

 

By the way, if anyone has a good source for any 2.5" notebook hard drives, anything from 1 - 40 gig, im always looking for new sources !!

 

 

Si

[MrRetroGamer]

Why is there a picture of an Hitachi drive but the description and title list it as Toshiba? Also the one pictured looks like it has a manufacture date of Aug/03 which would make the 1 year warrantee just about expired now.

 

Those NARUed IDs may have been involved in shill bidding, orperhaps he didn't pay his eBay fees? I would see if you can call this person on the phone, I'd be a little nervous about this transaction if I were you.

[Corrupted]

Look at this one (and the feedback).

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=3495098096

 

Don't pay him!

[Susuwatari]

Strange the feedback from both seller/buyer are exactly the same. That NARU is probably for bid shilling.

[CPUWIZ]

Okey dokey, for the clever ones among you (That means not you cpuwiz     )

 

LOL, the little British womble is getting tired of me correcting his spelling in PM's constantly.