On 29 Apr 2005 17:07:07 GMT, Ian Smith wrote:

Looked a bit strange that he was going to remove all bids by anyone
that didn't make personal contact with him first.

Yes, but that on it's own didn't ring any alarm bells for me. It seems
a reasonable request when selling a high value item, particularly
given how many clowns there now seem to be on ebay. The rest of the
listing looked, at first glance anyway, to be kosher.

As it happens, it seems it /was/ a dodgy listing, as the user account
has also been suspended, not just the listing removed.

I also received this afternoon an automated email from some ebay
computer saying "you made contact with this user, watch out, he may be
a wrong 'un! Don't send 'im any money! Don't buy anything from 'im!"

So, that'll be me proffering the group url's for bogus auctions then.
Ahem. I'll go stand in the corner and think about what I've done.



--

"Bob"



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