Just a tip....

cointoast

Have lost a few auctions lately on e-bay and had a person, (drbond02) e-mail me a week later and ask me if I still want the coin....

The problem is I contacted both buyer and seller and they both have no knowledge of him....After further "pushing" DRBOND02 he admits that he just happened to be surfing and saw I was a "sophisticated coin buyer" and thought he would offer me a coin.....The problem is the question he first asked.." DO YOU STILL WANT THE COIN?"....Maybe it's nothing but.....thought I'd pass it along.

airplanenut

Contact eBay and they'll warn him if your lucky... nice to be sophisticated, huh?

kranky

I've read about people trying to hijack buyer's payments like that. They wait until right after an auction ends then they send an email to the winner as if they were the seller. They hope the buyer pays with PayPal so by the time the buyer is suspicious (sometimes a couple of weeks) the money is long gone.

TheNumish

nwcs

This is one reason why I like paypal links from the auction itself. When I use those, I have no trouble figuring out who it goes to.

dorkkarl

that scam used to happen a whole lot when ebay was letting anyone look up anybody else's actual email addr. hadn't happened to me in quite a while though.

K S