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dputz
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posted October 24, 2011 05:33 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for dputz Click Here to Email dputz Send a private message to dputz Click to send dputz an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Massive-Magic-Gathering-Collection-Mixed-Lot-/260875173872?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps%3D63%26 clkid%3D3701576359715377165

Some poor bastard is going to get the shown old cards and 5 boxes of crap commons.

Thoughts?

 
Volcanon
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posted October 24, 2011 06:45 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for Volcanon Click Here to Email Volcanon Send a private message to Volcanon Click to send Volcanon an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
isn't this the same thing as we talked about a month ago?
 
dwiz
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posted October 24, 2011 07:03 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for dwiz Click Here to Email dwiz Send a private message to dwiz Click to send dwiz an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View dwiz's Trade Auction or SaleView dwiz's Trade Auction or Sale
I can only hope these people aren't actually paying for these auctions.
 
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quote:
Originally posted by Volcanon:
isn't this the same thing as we talked about a month ago?

Yep. Same style of pictures, just a new user ID.

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Pyrenus
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posted October 24, 2011 07:57 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for Pyrenus Send a private message to Pyrenus Click to send Pyrenus an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Looking through the 7 feedback he has...

Six of his 7 are from guys who sell mostly warhammer 40k stuff.

I doubt he could be big into miniatures and not know a thing about Magic. He would at least ask someone at his LGS before putting up a hail mary on ebay.

 
wayne
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posted October 24, 2011 08:52 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for wayne Click Here to Email wayne Send a private message to wayne Click to send wayne an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View wayne's Have/Want ListView wayne's Have/Want List
quote:
Originally posted by dwiz:
I can only hope these people aren't actually paying for these auctions.

This

 
bahamut44
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posted October 24, 2011 09:51 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for bahamut44 Send a private message to bahamut44 Click to send bahamut44 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
omg.... 3 k plus for all??? How do you guys know it's a scam man??? Because he hid everything underneath or too good to be true? It's an "alpha" box right??? So shouldn't it be more than that???
 
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posted October 24, 2011 09:58 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for Havoc Demon Click Here to Email Havoc Demon Send a private message to Havoc Demon Click to send Havoc Demon an Instant MessageVisit Havoc Demon's Homepage  Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by bahamut44:
omg.... 3 k plus for all??? How do you guys know it's a scam man??? Because he hid everything underneath or too good to be true? It's an "alpha" box right??? So shouldn't it be more than that???

No, its a box full of junk with the word "Alpha" written on the box. I could do the same thing right now with the junk in my room and a Sharpie.

 
dwiz
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posted October 24, 2011 10:01 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for dwiz Click Here to Email dwiz Send a private message to dwiz Click to send dwiz an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View dwiz's Trade Auction or SaleView dwiz's Trade Auction or Sale
quote:
Originally posted by Havoc Demon:
No, its a box full of junk with the word "Alpha" written on the box. I could do the same thing right now with the junk in my room and a Sharpie.

And take someone for like 10% of their yearly income for $50 worth of cards. Bidders like this are the kind of people who fall for the scams from Nigeria.

 
bahamut44
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posted October 24, 2011 10:36 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for bahamut44 Send a private message to bahamut44 Click to send bahamut44 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
whao...that's crazy. Jeez, you've got all sorts of people here.

Oh btw, someone just PM me too and mentioned shipping $450 for all of the rare stuffs from tabernacle to candels and su-chi etc etc... Then someone told me 200 for the tabernacle...netting that off, the rest of the stuffs are less than 50 each? Including Juzamm? I still got to ship them first??? omg ...

Man i can't even reply back to him/her because of the PM problem. Really not my day.....

 
bahamut44
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posted October 24, 2011 10:40 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for bahamut44 Send a private message to bahamut44 Click to send bahamut44 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by bahamut44:

Oh btw, someone just PM me too and mentioned shipping $450 for all of the rare stuffs from tabernacle to candels and su-chi etc etc... Then someone told me 200 for the tabernacle...netting that off, the rest of the stuffs are less than 50 each? Including Juzamm? I still got to ship them first??? omg ...

Man i can't even reply back to him/her because of the PM problem. Really not my day.....


Opps sorry wrong topic to post. Not used to the forum yet.

but yeah whao...that's crazy. Jeez, you've got all sorts of people online doing crazy stuffs.

Btw is there an option on forum showing an announcement which post i've been involved in have a new reply?

 
Heresy19
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bahamut44

you remind me of someone we voted out :/

 
bahamut44
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posted October 24, 2011 11:55 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for bahamut44 Send a private message to bahamut44 Click to send bahamut44 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
voted out? what do you mean? There's a vote thing here?
 
caquaa
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posted October 24, 2011 01:46 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for caquaa Click Here to Email caquaa Send a private message to caquaa Click to send caquaa an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View caquaa's Trade Auction or SaleView caquaa's Trade Auction or Sale
quote:
Originally posted by bahamut44:
voted out? what do you mean? There's a vote thing here?

yep, if you prove your IQ is too low, we vote you off the island.

 
Speed Demon
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posted October 24, 2011 02:11 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Speed Demon Click Here to Email Speed Demon Send a private message to Speed Demon Click to send Speed Demon an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by dwiz:
And take someone for like 10% of their yearly income for $50 worth of cards. Bidders like this are the kind of people who fall for the scams from Nigeria.

Honestly, if you make 30k a year, and you buy this, you deserve to have no money.

Survival of the fittest, no?

 
flophaus
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posted October 24, 2011 02:17 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for flophaus Click Here to Email flophaus Send a private message to flophaus Click to send flophaus an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by bahamut44:
voted out? what do you mean? There's a vote thing here?

Just stop posting so much and look, search around and learn. People who are all über-excited here at first without following forum/site rules are usually eventually banned. I welcome you to the site, I just recommend respect to the people/rules on these boards.

You can really learn a lot around here, if you'e willing to lurk in the shadows before going off on a ton of diff things all at once.

Good luck bro and happy trading!

 
Mr.C
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posted October 24, 2011 08:07 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Mr.C Click Here to Email Mr.C Send a private message to Mr.C Click to send Mr.C an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View Mr.C's Have/Want ListView Mr.C's Have/Want List
quote:
Originally posted by bahamut44:
voted out? what do you mean? There's a vote thing here?

Yep, and if you're not careful, you will be the next one.

So stay safe!

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MTDetermine
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posted October 24, 2011 10:30 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for MTDetermine Click Here to Email MTDetermine Send a private message to MTDetermine Click to send MTDetermine an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by dputz:
[URL=http://www.ebay.com/itm/Massive-Magic-Gathering-Collection-Mixed-Lot-/260875173872?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps %3D63%26]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Massive-Magic-Gathering-Collection-Mixed-Lot-/260875173872?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26p s%3D63%26[/URL] clkid%3D3701576359715377165

Some poor bastard is going to get the shown old cards and 5 boxes of crap commons.

Thoughts?


I do not understand why this is called a scam. As long as the seller delivers the promised 24000-26000 cards and the 8 cards shown in the picture, it will definitely not be a scam.

Of course, you can argue the seller may be lying when he claims that he has never handle the cards before.

But if a person is greedy and not smart enough to pay $3000+ for this lot of 24000-26000 cards, I think it will be a lesson well learnt if this episode can help to avert him from being scammed of larger amounts in the future

 
caquaa
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posted October 24, 2011 10:51 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for caquaa Click Here to Email caquaa Send a private message to caquaa Click to send caquaa an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View caquaa's Trade Auction or SaleView caquaa's Trade Auction or Sale
quote:
Originally posted by MTDetermine:
I do not understand why this is called a scam.

because the seller is being intentionally misleading. Labeling a box beta then showing a few beta cards "from that box" would imply the box is beta. The scam is that the box is not entirely beta. If it wasn't a scam, the seller would be honest with what is being sold.... which the seller obviously is not.

Didn't think that was a difficult concept.

 
keywacat
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posted October 24, 2011 11:24 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for keywacat Click Here to Email keywacat Send a private message to keywacat Click to send keywacat an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View keywacat's Have/Want ListView keywacat's Have/Want List
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I cannot even view the auction, seems the Czech government is looking out for me.

 
dwiz
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posted October 25, 2011 03:47 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for dwiz Click Here to Email dwiz Send a private message to dwiz Click to send dwiz an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View dwiz's Trade Auction or SaleView dwiz's Trade Auction or Sale
I asked for photos of all the M12 commons in the boxes. Didn't get a response.
 
Devonin
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posted October 25, 2011 06:17 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for Devonin Click Here to Email Devonin Send a private message to Devonin Click to send Devonin an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View Devonin's Have/Want ListView Devonin's Have/Want List
If they've taken the time to realise that 'Alpha/Beta/Unlimited' is the kind of labelling that means the boxes contain cards that are worth a 3+ thousand dollar purchase price, then they know enough to know that there are cards that might be in those boxes that are individually worth double that and more.

Anybody who puts a Magic lot on eBay and knows the kind of knowledge this person obviously has, would know better than to not look and see if there's a lotus in there. That's the part that makes this obviously a scam.

 
bahamut44
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posted October 25, 2011 09:56 AM   Click Here to See the Profile for bahamut44 Send a private message to bahamut44 Click to send bahamut44 an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by flophaus:
Just stop posting so much and look, search around and learn. People who are all über-excited here at first without following forum/site rules are usually eventually banned. I welcome you to the site, I just recommend respect to the people/rules on these boards.

You can really learn a lot around here, if you'e willing to lurk in the shadows before going off on a ton of diff things all at once.

Good luck bro and happy trading!


Right. Thanks. Excitement got the better of me. Cya guys ard~

 
simbayu
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posted October 25, 2011 01:21 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for simbayu Send a private message to simbayu Click to send simbayu an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
How do you report this as a scam on ebay? It would suck if this auction completes and someone actually pays 3k+. I tried the report this item link, but it didnt have the "scam" option.

[Edited 1 times, lastly by simbayu on October 25, 2011]
 
majicman
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quote:
Originally posted by simbayu:
How do you report this as a scam on ebay? It would suck if this auction completes and someone actually pays 3k+. I tried the report this item link, but it didnt have the "scam" option.

Well I live 90 minutes away from this location and have sent him an email saying would like to see this in person before placing a bid. If it is legit, he will respond.

Otherwise, I would suggest steer clear of this one until confirmation. This does seem to have the makings of a scam.

We shall see....Greg

 

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