John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 They are working on the behalf of a client that bought a gold bar off ebay, for £20k and surprise, surprise it didn't turn up! next time i'll sell them some tartan paint.... unbelievable, but totally true. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tisme Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 It was also probably advertised "on behalf of a friend" or it was "advertised elsewhere" or the seller had "bought it by mistake"............ Nothing about eBay surprises me, nor the scams that people must fall for day in day out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyonspride Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 A fool and his money are easily parted. To get on in this world doesn't (in the UK anyway) require any real intelligence or common sense, just a bl**** big mouth, extrovert and stupid. If we were more like Germany or Japan, these idiots wouldn't have this sort of money to throw away in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dombanks Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ha ha, gold bar for 20K on ebay... next thing you'll be saying is they had a plan to buy it and take it down to cash converters. ebay is full of fake stuff this one should have been obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Couple of years ago, bloke I used to work with bought a caravan off ebay for £7k then agreed to pay the seller a slightly lower price offline. Lost the lot of course. Intelligent bloke who didn't seem to be at all gullible as well - guess some people just don't stop to consider they may be being scammed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 More often than not, these scams succeed by appealing to the greed in someones nature. Fits in with what Lyonspride says - agree wholeheartedly with that. Such a simple rule to follow. If it looks too good to be true...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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