Reply To: My Image from forum used in eBay listing

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There is someone putting Beolab 28s (and recently I saw a pair of Beolab 50s listed which I suspect is the same) on ebay for an implausibly low ‘buy it now’ price. It’s happened repeatedly. Each time a different seller with loads of feedback and 100% score but their other items are completely unrelated and description is very generic. On one occasion I could see that the images had blatantly been reused from someone else’s listing. Before I got wise, I got very excited thinking I might be able to get a pair of Beolab 28s for £5K, but thinking it too good to be true, sent the seller a message and asked why he was selling so cheaply and got no reply.  I decided to leave it well alone…

What I think is happening is that a scammer is hacking other people’s profiles, changing the bank details with the hope of getting paid when someone can’t help snapping up an apparent bargain.  Then speakers don’t arrive, buyer complains, scam seller is nowhere to be seen, perhaps the innocent schmuck whose profile got hacked has a nasty surprise. Ultimately ebay will protect the buyer, and its probably ebay out of pocket.