I guess they should read the fine print at the bottom,
they are goin to be pretty pissed when they find out they paid over 100 bucks for a List

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1387813666

Sorry, what is a 'wholesale list'?

A list of wholsesalers so you can supposefully get things cheap, but as you can tell these things are never worth it, and this guy has to cover his up as a player with some fine print to sell them. I just think its wrong personally

That's taking the piss big-time. Ebay has to start cracking down on people about this - I have no problem with people selling wholesale lists if they are upfront about it, but this is a list disguised as an expensive bit of kit, with barely enough truth to legally cover his ass.

I agree. I've never been burned on ebay, but I keep waiting for it. There needs to be something done about this!

Someone should e-mail Crutchfield about this auction, the slime is using an image directly linked off of Crutchfield's site. They could replace the big picture with a warning about the auction.

...now there's an idea I like. Please go ahead.

Just did, here's the e-mail I sent to webmaster@ and administration@

I was on EBay today, and I saw an auction that was using pictures from your website, and directly linking from your servers, stealing your bandwidth. You might want to do somthing about this, here's one of the worst offenders.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1387813666

He's not even selling that product, he's selling a list of wholesalers if you read the fine print.

Check your referal logs for other offenders, and I'd recomend blocking requests for pictures from e-bay.

Ben Konosky

That is just wrong. I remember someone mentioning an idea before, that ebay should have a forum thread for each auction item so people could discuss it. That would help stop theives like this from decieving people. This reminds me of the incident where someone sold a playstation 2 BOX for like $300 on ebay.

Is there anyway you can see the high bidder's email?

I sent a message to the seller, and reported it to ebay. It's the kind of thing that makes me not use ebay any more... (Besides the fact that it's now just a sea of people selling new stuff for the retail price) I'll stick to craigslist for all my cheap seccond hand computer crap.

Matthew

Is there anyway you can see the high bidder's email?


No. But as a registered ebay user I can (and did) send a message to the high bidder:

saxman --

You are being ripped off with this auction!

Read the fine print at the very bottom of the description: what you are bidding on is a list of wholesale suppliers where you can purchase this piece of equipment.

Don't do this!

Doug Burnside
ebay user: tanstaafl.


tanstaafl.

Good job. Hopefully he'll see it before he sends the money.

And here's the reply I got from them:

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your e-mail, and for shopping the Crutchfield web site.

I really appreciate you taking time to send us the information about the listing on Ebay. I've forwarded a copy of your email to our web team to have them take a look.

If you have any other comments or suggestions regarding the site, please let us know. We value your feedback.

Thanks again for your e-mail. Please let me know whenever you need anything in the future.


Andy

Crutchfield Sales

[email protected]

http://www.crutchfield.com

1-888-474-7138


Looks like they might be doing something about this. We'll have wait and see.

Look at this auction he's got. Some sucker is up to $410 for another list.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1387701328

Hmm. I did too. I started off at the top of the page, saw what was going on, and sent him an e-mail.

I guess he'll get several then

Yeah but the buyer had glasses and zero feedback so I am guessing he either made a user to bid on his own item or someone did that just to screw the jerk over.

Looks like this item has disappeared from the ebay database.
Comes up as as invalid item.
Something happened...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1387813666

I love how at the top it says

"****Read Carefully****"

all in a light yellow

All of his "DVD" auctions are now gone, and the one I had posted that ended up going to $1000 before that bid was retracted was "The seller ended this listing early because of an error in the listing."

He'd started up 2 more on the "DVD" front, but they vanished...However if you want a wholesale list for clothing, he's selling a few of those. Those listing do properly state the fact it's a wholesale list in the description(but not the title).

Scum, needs to be taken out back and beat with a clue by four until he gets one.

Yeah, I reported that one yesterday....catalogs are prohibited items in ebay . I also pointed out the obvious attempt to mislead buyers.

Im glad that something took care of his DVD auctions, now the guy is trying to sell wholesale lists for fashion designers, but he is being more upfront about it. I think they should ban all selling of these things, they are always a scam