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Posted 14/10/2012 - 16:17 - Helpful Comment
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Scam is one word. A better one might just be fraudulent.
At first, I thought it was just another "penny auction" site, then I looked more closely: the time counters kept resetting but the amount of the new high bid did not change.
OK, so these could be just examples, but not very good ones.
Then I clicked on the tiny little Union Jack icon and got a huge range of countries - like no penny acuction site that I know of deals with that many countries.
At a guess, it is an e-mail address harvesting site, since they do not appear to want payment until you win an auction - but if you have to give Credit Card details when opening an account, then that could be what they are really after.
Well spotted Ciaran
Geoff
At first, I thought it was just another "penny auction" site, then I looked more closely: the time counters kept resetting but the amount of the new high bid did not change.
OK, so these could be just examples, but not very good ones.
Then I clicked on the tiny little Union Jack icon and got a huge range of countries - like no penny acuction site that I know of deals with that many countries.
At a guess, it is an e-mail address harvesting site, since they do not appear to want payment until you win an auction - but if you have to give Credit Card details when opening an account, then that could be what they are really after.
Well spotted Ciaran
Geoff
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and then there's all the M42 kit, and the accessories ...
X-5
istDS
K2000
P50.
Lenses Digital: 50-200, 18-55 KAF: 28-80.
Lenses KA & K: SMC-KA f2.0, SMC-K f1.4, SMC-K f1.7 Tokina KA 28-70 , SMC Pentax 70-210 F4, Sigma KA 75-300 , Hanimex 500mm Mirror, and the Tamron Adaptall-2 stuff.
and then there's all the M42 kit, and the accessories ...
Posted 14/10/2012 - 16:26 - Helpful Comment
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Total auction scam, it works by paying 87p to bid the price up by a penny each time. So an item that has an auction price of £10.00 has actually cost people £870 in 1p bids, the winning bid then has to pay the final bid price too.
These sites tend to have a short closing time which when gets to the last few seconds a bid miraculously appears which resets the timer.
Full details how to "buy" bids here
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These sites tend to have a short closing time which when gets to the last few seconds a bid miraculously appears which resets the timer.
Full details how to "buy" bids here
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Posted 14/10/2012 - 17:33
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Having found a scam site, actually linking to it doesn't seem very wise, so I've removed the link.
Best regards, John
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My computer security has marked it as a scam site.
regards
Ciaran