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  1. I submit that on or about Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:16:22 GMT, the person
    known to the court as [email hidden] made a statement
    (<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to
    the following effect:

    Quoted message said:

    Definitely. If you report it to ebay it'll disappear in a couple of hours.

    I did (when I first saw it), it didn't.

    I would *never* bid on anything that wasn't up-front about things like
    shipping / postage.

    I reckon it's Razor Eddie offloading some stuff for Turtle.

    Guy
    --
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    "To every complex problem there is a solution which is
    simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

  2. Response to vernon:

    Quoted message said:

    Having thrashed out the 'fact' that the listings are probably fraudulent
    ones, did anyone report them to Ebay?

    I did, late last night; to no effect AFAICT, apart from the usual
    boilerplate reply.

    --
    Mark, UK

    "One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms."

  3. In article said:


    Quoted message said:

    Last sale which got feedback was in July.

    No PayPal option. Think I'd leave it.

    Having said that the last item was sold "from" France.


    Having thrashed out the 'fact' that the listings are probably fraudulent
    ones, did anyone report them to Ebay?

    I did. Though I'd got quick response on previous reports on fraudulent
    bike auctions, nothing on this one.

    Paul

  4. vernon said:
    Quoted message said:

    Last sale which got feedback was in July.

    No PayPal option. Think I'd leave it.

    Having said that the last item was sold "from" France.

    Having thrashed out the 'fact' that the listings are probably fraudulent
    ones, did anyone report them to Ebay?


    I've reported several very dodgy sales, Zero rated bidder, stock photo,
    email bidder for payment options,fFree shipping, etc to Ebay but they
    seems pretty slow at removing them so I've given up.

    At the time of writing there are three Bianchi bikes listed by the same
    vendor with all these dubious characteristics.

    Julesh

  5. Dave said:


    Funny you should say that - but until I went to Switzerland recently and
    hired a bike, I didn't know that the brakes are the opposite way round to
    here in the UK as one of our party found out the hard way.

    Nor do some continental motorcyclists and scooter riders when they get
    on a bike for the first time. I think "wrong way round" is probably better.

  6. vernon said:

    Having thrashed out the 'fact' that the listings are probably fraudulent
    ones, did anyone report them to Ebay?

    Yup. And as reported by others, to no avail!

    The fact that their reporting system doesn't allow the inclusion of
    extra information doesn't fill me with confidence. I don't want some
    muppet at eBay having to evaulate from scratch when certain "pointers"
    could be offered.

    Jon

  7. "Julesh" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I've reported several very dodgy sales, Zero rated bidder, stock photo,
    email bidder for payment options,fFree shipping, etc to Ebay but they
    seems pretty slow at removing them so I've given up.

    At the time of writing there are three Bianchi bikes listed by the same
    vendor with all these dubious characteristics.

    Julesh

    It's always a well-known name bike too. Vernon's occasionally bought stuff
    from e-bay but always makes a point of meeting vendor with item to pay cash.
    There was one item he bid for which he won, but when got in contact with
    vendor to make arrangements to go to collect bike & make payment, all of a
    sudden vendor knew nothing about this ebay sale.

    Cheers, helen s

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