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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4885521, member: 27832"]Now, I <i>have</i> seen -- and bought! -- "too-good-to-be-true" eBay listings. Sometimes they were fraudulent. Other times, they weren't; they were just someone listing something based only on what they had in it, or because they didn't know any better. These were almost always Buy It Now listings where I just happened to be the first person to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In many cases, I've messaged the seller saying "you probably didn't <i>really</i> want to sell this at this price", and offering to cancel the transaction. Sometimes they take me up on it, sometimes they don't.</p><p><br /></p><p>But those bargains are few and far between, and finding them is a matter of luck. They're <i>vastly</i> outnumbered by the bogus items, which in turn are <i>vastly</i> outnumbered by the legitimate listings priced too high to be of interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4885521, member: 27832"]Now, I [I]have[/I] seen -- and bought! -- "too-good-to-be-true" eBay listings. Sometimes they were fraudulent. Other times, they weren't; they were just someone listing something based only on what they had in it, or because they didn't know any better. These were almost always Buy It Now listings where I just happened to be the first person to see it. In many cases, I've messaged the seller saying "you probably didn't [I]really[/I] want to sell this at this price", and offering to cancel the transaction. Sometimes they take me up on it, sometimes they don't. But those bargains are few and far between, and finding them is a matter of luck. They're [I]vastly[/I] outnumbered by the bogus items, which in turn are [I]vastly[/I] outnumbered by the legitimate listings priced too high to be of interest.[/QUOTE]
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