Page 1 of £8000 plasma for £1500: Too good to be true?

Please can anyone advise me on this auction

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2671922898&category=11073

He is selling the TV new for £1500 and it retails around the £7000-£8000 range

In his email he said "I`m based in Amsterdam , Netherlands so, shipping shall be no problem to your country." and "I will cover shipping and insurance charges."

I can`t figure out the catch?

This item was edited on Monday, 17th November 2003, 02:37

Definitely looks like bargain of the century !
The seller gets rave reviews on e-bay as well.
116 comments,and majority of them praise,so he`s obviously a prolific e-bay seller.
You can ask the seller a question on e-bay you know.
I`d certainly be wanting to know why he`s selling it for a fifth of it`s value !
If it`s 100% legit,it`s tempting to buy it just to sell it on !!!!.

I`d be a little cautious. The previous sales from the seller are all very different to this one and the items are also said to be in Bishops Stortford, which doesn`t necessarily mean it`s a scam, but makes me a touch wary.

My sister in law "bought" a pro broadcast-quality video camera from an ebay user who had an otherwise very impressive feedback rating. She went through the "pre-approval" stage and the seller emailed her saying that the auction item had already been sold, but that they had another one available. If she sent them £1,100 by Western Union (to an address in Italy) then they`d send her the camera over. She sent the money, Western Union confirmed that it had been collected, and that`s the last she heard. Western Union suggested that she contact the Police, but didn`t offer out much more hope. To this day, she`s £1,100 out of pocket.

Like I said, this may be legit, but there are one or two warning signs. I`d tread cautiously!!! It may even be worth contacting ebay directly to see if they can verify anything.

ebay have now removed the listing. I suspect it was a dodgy one!!

This item was edited on Monday, 17th November 2003, 13:30

I`ve bought and sold a fair few items on e-bay.
My `moral` is, always use a credit card.
Anything goes wrong,you`re covered.

Yeh the customer is covered and the crook but not the place where the crook stole from.

eg.

I own a shop selling music instruments, I had someone trying to buy an instrument on the phone with a credit card, turns out the credit card was stolen he was buying £2500 worh of stuff and selling it on ebay for a grand.
Luckily I did`nt get caught out but I know of a few shops that got done.

Anyway the story is yeh the customer is covered the police never catch the crook and the shop shuts down as they`ve got sod all money left.

Great

WATCH OUT.

This is prbably not a stolen item, but an item that doesn`t even exist. thsi is now a known eBAy trick. People are hijacking good feedback accounts and seeling TVs/Laptops and high value items. Items don`t actually exist they take the money and run. The real eBay seller is none the wiser. Always check for sales form. Saw a Plasmas the other day being sold for £800 or so. 100% feedback. But turns out the guy usually sells pottery! So obvioudly hijiacked. Just watch your step. If it`s too good to be true. It probably will be. >:(

Use ask seller a question and ask them if you can pay for it and collect it in person,( I mean £80O -£1500 is still a lot of money) if they hum and r then they are probaly dodgy

Oscar.

This item was edited on Thursday, 20th November 2003, 15:54