Is this worth the risk?

[Miked]

I was on ebay and I came across this ad.  How reliable do you think this person is?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Cyberstorm-CSPPC-Accelerator-Card-for-Amiga-3000-4000_W0QQitemZ220192505150QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4598QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[weirdami]

At first glance, I'd say not very. No pictures and a brand new user with no transactions, ever. Also, look at all those other Amiga items he has for sale. All without pictures. Suspicious.

[Caius]

From the eBay add:

Payment must be a postal money order cashable in Canada. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Yet he has PayPal as an option below. A little strange. At
any rate, the only thing you can really say about this seller
is that he's new on eBay.

Personally, I'd never agree on postal money order no matter what.

[odin]

A seller who doesn't bother spending more than 2 seconds of his attentionspan to listing his products isn't worth a cent.

-edit-
The seller did answer me very swiftly stating that pics would be coming up tomorrow, perhaps it isn't as bad as it looks.

[persia]

Typically "as is" in Ebay ads mean that Jesus Himself would have a hard time resurrecting it.  

The seller created this id to sell this product and is hiding his/her real ID.  The Ad says no paypal then advertises Paypal.  

US$500 (€340) and no pictures and no real description.  Seller know what the card is worth yet doesn't know anything concrete about it.

There are really only two possibilities here, seller ships a bad card or seller shps nothing.

[swift240]

I have just asked him, you say Postal money order, only and yet there is a PayPal option.

It will be Interestint to get an answere from him.

Personaly I think its a scam, but then I could be wrong.

Mike.

[Plaz]

Personaly I think its a scam, but then I could be wrong.

Scam or not.... $500 starting bid, zero feedback, no pictures and "as is" without testing?  ABSOLUTELY NO WAY!

Of course that's what I say if it's my money being spent.

Plaz

[swift240]

Well I was being nice about it.

In my opinion Its a SCAM, and it gets me bloody angry to see those that do this sort of thing fully expecting every one who looks at the auction to be stupid and totaly thick, to belive it to be real.

Mike. :madashell:  :madashell:  :madashell:

[swift240]

The reply to my question:-


"Preference is money order cashable in canada, but I will take
PayPal."

"- selling_stuff_2008"


Mike.

[tokyoracer]

Unless he can offer local pickup steer VERY clear.

[Plaz]

In my opinion Its a SCAM

It's very suspicious to me too. I'd be worried about getting a dead card if nothing else. But even if I just base my opinion on the page information alone, I would tell anyone to keep their money in their pocket.

Of course there's always the chance it's legit. It just doesn't look like a good risk to me. Maybe if the seller comes here and reads this feedback, they'll go back and improve the auction info.

Plaz

[Damion]

Is this worth the risk?

No.

A high-dollar auction from a new member with 0 feedback (who only accepts money orders) is definitely not a good idea.

[Bazzaq]

Stay away from it, unless its local collection and payment on collection.

Paypal will probably not cover you.

[A4000_Mad]

persia wrote:
Typically "as is" in Ebay ads mean that Jesus Himself would have a hard time resurrecting it.  

Very true! :lol:
It doesn't even say that it is working now or has worked recently.

Ebay auction wrote:
No payments for 3 months

At least you can spread the cost of your suffering :crazy:  :-D

[HopperJF]

While I don't trust this auction upon looking at it, the Mediator 1200 he is selling seems to be a reasonable price (only $75)

Not bad if you ask me.