eBay

dank-51 · ‎08-07-2018

I'm wanting to purchase some jet skis and I found some with very low price tag so this is the email I received from the seller

Is it to good to be true?

This is the email I received from the seller.

Hello again,

The price is 2000$ firm. Now I'm here in Omaha NE, back with my parents, after the divorce. This Jet's are already here at the eBay warehouse along with all the paperwork and the transaction will be done through them. eBay will handle the shipping, the payment, and the paper exchange. The Jet's are ready to be delivered to your place. You will have free shipping and 7 days to test-drive and inspect the Jet's before I receive any money.

If you are really interested in buying my Jet's, please reply with your full name, a delivery address and a phone #. I will forward this info to eBay and they will contact you with all the info on how to buy it.

Thank you.

ittybitnot · ‎08-07-2018

scam

Go report the listing if you are so inclined.

There is no ebay warehouse.

southern*sweet*tea · ‎08-07-2018

SCAM!

This is not how Ebay works. Google "ebay warehouse".

There are no jet skis waiting in an Ebay warehouse, there are only scammers waiting for you to send them your hard earned money in the form of Western Union or gift cards. Once that happens, you're done. You've lost your money and will have nothing to show for it, and Ebay cannot help you because you didn't buy from the site, you bought from scammers.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

a_c_green · ‎08-07-2018

100% scam, working off a very old script. There are no actual JetSkis for sale here, there is no "eBay warehouse," and no one is going to deliver big machines for free (car, tractor, motorcycle, JetSki, etc.) and then collect them again 7 days later if you change your mind. All that will actually happen is that they will persuade you to wire money someplace, then you will never hear from them again, and your money is irretrievably lost.

hyperrush · ‎08-07-2018

An Generous Seller? Not think so. Avoid doing business.

One sale a day, tomorrow the entire Galaxy!

smell-3175 · ‎08-07-2018

Ebay is nothing but Scams. Both seller and buyer.

soh.maryl · ‎08-07-2018

I am about 99% certain that you did not find these jet skis on eBay with a listing number.

That sounds like the typical Craig's List scam, although on CL it's usually a motor vehicle.

There is no eBay warehouse anywhere. And what seller with any brains would ship a valuable item (or any item) to a total stranger for a trial period?

Ebay has no involvement whatsoever in this but this scammer wants you to believe that they are and that you have eBay's buyer protection. You don't.

You need to cease all communication with this low life.

(And it's still a mystery to me why these people overwhelmingly use Omaha as the location of their fake machinery.)

soh.maryl · ‎08-07-2018

(1) I am pretty sure this was not an eBay listing.

(2) In addition to there being no eBay warehouse, there are also no jet skis just waiting for the buyer to purchase.

soh.maryl · ‎08-07-2018

I have no desire to get into a back-and-forth discussion with you. You obviously have some issues with eBay.

But do you not realize that the OP did not find these imaginary jet skis on eBay and they are not being stored in an imaginary eBay warehouse in Omaha or anywhere else?