Listing switching to higher priced listing

[no.no.nelly]

I recently saw a listing for a high end sewing machine going for under $2 and ending in 15 hours. It was amazing, and although I thought it was too good to be true, I thought I'd check it out. When I did so, I found that there was no way to open the listing. It takes you to a listing of those sewing machines for over $100.

Is eBay allowing this? Seems almost bait and switch to me. When I run the seller's name (kerseydog) I see a ton of listing the same way.

If you're going to sell on eBay, the item you list should be available.

[mismarymarpl0]

Thats a hacked account selling scam items. Most of the listings have been pulled now

[mistwomandancing]

Obviously nobody is going to be selling $2 sewing machines, so when a listing screams SCAM... of course, that's exactly what it is. 

I can't even believe there are folks who fall for these, but apparently there are just enough of them that these creeps keep the scam going.

[luckythewinner]

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@no.no.nelly wrote:

I recently saw a listing for a high end sewing machine going for under $2 and ending in 15 hours. It was amazing, and although I thought it was too good to be true, I thought I'd check it out. When I did so, I found that there was no way to open the listing. It takes you to a listing of those sewing machines for over $100.

Is eBay allowing this? Seems almost bait and switch to me. When I run the seller's name (kerseydog) I see a ton of listing the same way.

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I do not believe eBay gives those sellers the ability to control whether you can open a listing.

If you cannot see the lsiting, it is probably because eBay has removed it.

[d-k_treasures]

Hacked account.

The reason the OP was taken to other listings was because the original one was removed.

[a_c_green]

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@mismarymarpl0 wrote:
Thats a hacked account selling scam items. Most of the listings have been pulled now

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Yes, that scammer had a boatload of high-value listings in the hacked account, most if not all of which have been removed now.

Regarding the OP's comment about there being no way to open the $2 listing, but instead getting $100+ listings in return, that sounds like eBay's default search behavior when the listing you're searching for is no longer retrievable, so it defaults to showing you other (legitimate, in this case) listings for a similar item.

I sometimes see similar bahavior by eBay when looking for an old listing of my own to re-use for a Sell Similar listing. I'll search my old email for my sale records of the previous example, whenever that was, and click on the link there to see if eBay still has it archived for me. If it's no longer retrievable, I sometimes get a listing of similar current items instead. (Incidentally, I will sometimes be amazed to find that a listing of mine from 2-3 years ago can still be brought up that way. All the photos will be missing, but everything else is still there.)