leeb
Established Member
Anyone looked at ebay recently at the plasma section? I have today and it's very scary! We all know about scams (obvious foreign sellers with 0 feedback offering Pioneer plasmas for £800) but today I've noticed at least 3 sellers using rather less obvious tactics.
Came across one seller of the Hitachi 32PD3000 and it was going for £500, checked it out and there wasn't a reserve. What instantly struck me though was the description and style of the advert was an exact match of Crampton & Moore (Sheffield) who of course are a very respectible company that offer plasmas on ebay. The seller even left in the statement "we are an authorised Hitachi dealer." But the interesting part was that this seller had a very good feedback rating and stated they were in the UK.
Only when you look closer at this feedback do you find that although they claim to be in the UK they are actually in the US and ALL their feedback has come from them BUYING lots of items in America.
And the scariest part of this? People were bidding for the plasmas!
Came across one seller of the Hitachi 32PD3000 and it was going for £500, checked it out and there wasn't a reserve. What instantly struck me though was the description and style of the advert was an exact match of Crampton & Moore (Sheffield) who of course are a very respectible company that offer plasmas on ebay. The seller even left in the statement "we are an authorised Hitachi dealer." But the interesting part was that this seller had a very good feedback rating and stated they were in the UK.
Only when you look closer at this feedback do you find that although they claim to be in the UK they are actually in the US and ALL their feedback has come from them BUYING lots of items in America.
And the scariest part of this? People were bidding for the plasmas!