BO.com 20k @ Ebay 10 hours left

He has a history of 1. Plus he didn't put much effort into the listing for how valuable of a domain it is. And when you are talking big bucks, who cares about when it expires? "REGISTERD AT DOMAINDISCOVER UNTIL JULY '08"

FAKE! IMHO

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A 1 feedback seller and the only form of payment accepted is PayPal (no escrow?)...would make me think twice about bidding. Kind of funny that in the auction he indicates not wanting bids from people without feedback. 1 is not much better than 0.

I emailed the domain's owner to verify he knows the auction is happening and if so, that he will allow the transaction to be handled via escrow.

My personal experience bidding on names like this has been dismal, at best. The last time I bid on a gem at ebay (rex.com), I received an email from the real owner telling me the guy was a fraud.

if you really want to find the truth , just ring the owner:

636-532-3424

I spoke with the owner via email and this is NOT LEGIT. If someone is a nice guy they could win the auction just to ensure someone doesn't get taken here. He claims to have emailed ebay and paypal but the auction remained up. Two things are wrong here.
1) An anxious buyer that uses paypal will possibly lose his money
2) If the name goes cheap it could cause people to project lower values on LL.com's

I've seen this several times on ebay. They really need to react before the auction ends not afterwards.

WeBuyThe.Com said:

I spoke with the owner via email and this is NOT LEGIT. If someone is a nice guy they could win the auction just to ensure someone doesn't get taken here. He claims to have emailed ebay and paypal but the auction remained up. Two things are wrong here.
1) An anxious buyer that uses paypal will possibly lose his money
2) If the name goes cheap it could cause people to project lower values on LL.com's

I've seen this several times on ebay. They really need to react before the auction ends not afterwards.

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but that would be fake bidding......so is fake bidding your solution to a fake seller?

the bid now is at $101,100

i hope the winner dont pay

One of my favourite sayings -

"If it looks like sh*t and smells like it, you don't need to taste it to realise it is sh*t."

Avoid like the plague, seller and listing!

A name would have to be very cheap for us to bid on Ebay. We stopped even looking since they changed to hidden bidders. All the confidence is gone.

I saw this gem in eBay once and before I bid on it I contacted the owner and the owner was surprised that the domain was for sale. Then he asked the link of the auction.

A gem that good being sold in eBay always made think twice.

Latest bid $300,100.

So... what ebayer is going to send 300,000 via paypal? LoL...

Pehaps the fraud seller didnt realize how valueable this domain was? Maybe he overdid it a bit.. lol

Justin

Spade said:

So... what ebayer is going to send 300,000 via paypal? LoL...

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It looks like a good way to have your paypal account limited

Hopefully this is another case of
honest ebayers bidding a name to a sky-high price,
just to screw over an obvious scammer.

happens with cars all the time...

there are probably a few Toyota Supra scams on ebay right now

and a lot of times, youll see them at $777,000 or something :D

ALSO:

BO.com was on sedo... owner told me he didn't list it... so I made an offer and accepted the counter offer... just so the BO.com listing wouldn't be on sedo anymore.

The owner of BO.com is pretty upset... rightfully so.

Maybe a member of the foolish QBC
"quick buck crew"
If i was the owner i woulod not have sold it at any cost

eBay is now world's biggest marketplace for fraudsters, imho.

Why eBay hesitates to verify these type of fraudulent listings? Their marketplace is getting worse everyday!

Update: eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4385956.stm

del.icio.us said:

eBay is now world's biggest marketplace for fraudsters, imho.

Why eBay hesitates to verify these type of fraudulent listings? Their marketplace is getting worse everyday!

Update: eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4385956.stm

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Lol, beware buyer of bo.com :notme:

XF.com said:

BO.com was on sedo... owner told me he didn't list it... so I made an offer and accepted the counter offer... just so the BO.com listing wouldn't be on sedo anymore.

The owner of BO.com is pretty upset... rightfully so.

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Hmm, Interesting...

Would you care to share the closing price?

I think this would be the biggest sale for this week!

del.icio.us said:

Hmm, Interesting...

Would you care to share the closing price?

I think this would be the biggest sale for this week!

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Well, I contacted the BO.com owner,
he said he didn't list it on SEDO or EBAY.

So i offered $100K,
the fake seller countered at
$50K and I accepted it.

I called my contact at SEDO and he looked into the
matter, and said YES, this listing looks suspicous.

ONLY 15 seconds into my phone call, SEDO was able to verify
that the listing "looked suspicious"

WHY OH WHY, can't they take the 15 seconds BEFORE they list it,
and do some checking to see if the listing is legit or not.

SEDO and EBAY... doing nothing to keep their selling system pure.

Lol before the sale scam is unearthed

Sedo and Ebay are advertising venues first and foremost ... to the best of my knowledge, they are NOT auction houses, NOT licensed auctioneers, NOT licensed brokers, NOT escrow agents, etc...

Bottom line is that one counts their lucky stars when Sedo, Ebay, etc work as one expects for large dollar transactions, but often it seems that the exception not the rule ... fake sales, canceled transactions, shill bidders, etc is about par for the course for those places.

There's definitely a window of opportunity for sales venues that can innovate to the next level ... ie. verification of listings, along with buyers and sellers, more intuitive interface, etc ... Snapnames and some other drop auction sites are well positioned to dominate the auction space if they play things right.

Ron

WeBuyThe.Com said:

If someone is a nice guy they could win the auction just to ensure someone doesn't get taken here.

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Not advisable I did that for yee.com which was a fake auction. Figured I would save someone some grief. I won refused to pay of course and the Seller gave me horrible feedback. Ebay would not remove it. They refused to. I tried to get them to remove the listing before I bid and they did not

The listing is this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180128804478
I am bootdisksrus, take at look at the feedback I got.

"Fraudulent Payment by PayPal for Domain Name / Unauthorized Funds"
"Look! All his feedback is over 60 days old; is account stolen? He sent stolen $$"

ebay actually helps the scammers +

Kamloops said:

Not advisable I did that for yee.com which was a fake auction. Figured I would save someone some grief. I won refused to pay of course and the Seller gave me horrible feedback. Ebay would not remove it. They refused to. I tried to get them to remove the listing before I bid and they did not

The listing is this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180128804478
I am bootdisksrus, take at look at the feedback I got.

"Fraudulent Payment by PayPal for Domain Name / Unauthorized Funds"
"Look! All his feedback is over 60 days old; is account stolen? He sent stolen $$"

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The problem with these scams is that it makes even the legitimate sellers without feedback look suspicious.
I listed a name once on eBay (I have a seller rating of just 1...never used eBay much. I'd rather use Craigslist) and got enquiries if I was legitimate or not. Nobody eventually bid (well, except one) on that domain because of that.