[bikerjulio]

I try to report obvious scammers to eBay when I see them.

Under their previous system, I'd see these gettting removed with the hour. Now it's days. Someones going to get hurt.

This particular scammer has hacked several different sellers just in the past week.

One example of a bike ad here Specialized S-Works Venge Project Black Size 56 with Dura-Ace DI2 and Mavic | eBay

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[Cinelli 82220]

Very common scam on the bay, getting buyers to send money to an email address. Sometimes there are dozens of listings, all nearly identical like this.

Best thing to do is report them for trying to sell outside of EBay and avoid EBay fees.

Losing money (fees) is EBay's biggest concern and will get their attention right away.

 

[Matt Bags]

Thanks for the info!

 

[bikerjulio]

The obvious signs are:

price too good to be true

instructions not to use eBay email

no relation to the sellers usual sales

this particular scammer had multiple items, high end bikes and other stuff, and had hacked at least 3 sellers in one week. eBay has got a lot slower at removing this kind of thing.