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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: richnormand on December 12, 2020, 03:43:22 pm
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Here is one I came across this morning. The seller has other items with the same questionable tactic.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rohde-Schwarz-SMA100A-RF-Signal-Generator-9khz-3GHz-opt-B103L-B22-B29-Clock/293891912584?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rohde-Schwarz-SMA100A-RF-Signal-Generator-9khz-3GHz-opt-B103L-B22-B29-Clock/293891912584?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649)
Looks like an interesting item at a very low initial bid price and low shipping costs, until you start looking at the product images.
One of the photos direct you to outside ebay for a "buy it now" , no bidding allowed. Pretty sure that is not in the seller eBay agreement!
I guess putting this in the photos avoids the eBay scans of the description text altogether.
Wanted to point this to eBay but after numerous sub-menus I gave up.
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That link doesn't work.
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That is very interesting.
I clicked on it this morning from this posting to check and it worked. Now I get a message that it does not exist from eBay.
Looks like they removed it. Good.
edit: I had it stored on "My Ebay" list and it is gone from there too, as well as a second similar item from the same vendor....
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It is a standard scam that pops up every couple of weeks. Deck what items the vendor actually sold, and when.
When I spot them I report them as fraudulent listings, and they are taken down fairly quickly.