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  1. #1
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    7x10 MiniLathe ebay...

    $95
    mhel
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  2. #2
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    Too good to be true?

    Google search of some of the not-very-good English used in the listing brings back other prior listings under different user names that are/were clearly scams.

  3. #3
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    All feedback is as a buyer, non as a seller yet?
    Free shipping yet?
    Al.
    CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design

    “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
    Albert E.

  4. #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by doorknob View Post
    Too good to be true?

    Google search of some of the not-very-good English used in the listing brings back other prior listings under different user names that are/were clearly scams.
    That's what I thought, but I bit anyway.
    mhel
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  5. #5
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    It shows that the listing has ended, with 49 sold.

    So if it is a scam, which I believe it is, then the scammers have just walked away with almost $5,000 (for this item alone - a look at the other items that the seller had listed shows other too-good deals, so they are potentially walking away with a whole lot more). If the scammers are clever then they will have emptied their bank account (if PayPal hasn't put a hold on it) with each incoming order, but PayPal will make the buyers whole, so PayPal will be out a pile of $$.

  6. #6
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    If something is too good to be true, then it probably is.

  7. #7
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    Ebay have caught it and put a hold on all his transactions.
    Al.
    CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design

    “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
    Albert E.

  8. #8
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    Yeah, I recieved a notification too.

    If the seller is trying to scam buyers, he lacked the planning.
    Ebay/Paypal has new rules, if sellers has less feedback they only get their money after 21 days or until they provide a tracking numbers.

    I was really hoping it was good :-)
    mhel
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