EBAY Scammers - Ingenious or just Wrong?

Stealth Hunter · 02-06-08, 02:51 PM

Someone on the American EBay claimed to have a piece of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen's hair. What a load of trash! Looked more like horsehair, although I did buy the canvas iron cross from Max Mueller's plane.

Either it comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by a notable member of some historical society, or I don't buy.

Blacklight · 02-06-08, 04:09 PM

I actually had detectives investigating me because some woman was going around passing bad checks for thousands of dollars all over the place and she had put on her account me as her husband and listed her address as mine. I wasn't even maried at the time.
That was a big mess. I had lawyers and collection agencies calling me threatening to sue. The police were investigating me.
She must have just pulled my name and address out of the phone book randomly. Thankfully the account she had wasn't in any way attached to my accounts at all. I don't know if they ever caught her or not.

kiwi_2005 · 02-06-08, 08:21 PM

And another thing with auction sites is the Shrill bidders

people who bid high on their friends auctions then pull out just at the last 10min before auctions finishes - they stick out like sore thumbs, they bid one after the other then all a sudden stop when it gets to a certain price, to be certain its not just a bidder being honest i usually check out there bidding and find they never finish a bid and its always on the same auctions not theres.

02-06-08, 04:09 PM	#2
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	I actually had detectives investigating me because some woman was going around passing bad checks for thousands of dollars all over the place and she had put on her account me as her husband and listed her address as mine. I wasn't even maried at the time. That was a big mess. I had lawyers and collection agencies calling me threatening to sue. The police were investigating me. She must have just pulled my name and address out of the phone book randomly. Thankfully the account she had wasn't in any way attached to my accounts at all. I don't know if they ever caught her or not. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 08:21 PM	#3
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	And another thing with auction sites is the Shrill bidders people who bid high on their friends auctions then pull out just at the last 10min before auctions finishes - they stick out like sore thumbs, they bid one after the other then all a sudden stop when it gets to a certain price, to be certain its not just a bidder being honest i usually check out there bidding and find they never finish a bid and its always on the same auctions not theres. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

02-06-08, 02:51 PM	#1
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Someone on the American EBay claimed to have a piece of Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen's hair. What a load of trash! Looked more like horsehair, although I did buy the canvas iron cross from Max Mueller's plane. Either it comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by a notable member of some historical society, or I don't buy.