Not a dodgy e-bay auction at all.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2472286869&category=9807

To save me from Pip's wrath, it's a ZX-6R J2 in London with 3600 miles on.

The starting price is a grand and a half and there's no reserve, free
delivery in the UK and the seller will even throw in one of the two matching
lids that they have.

Sounds great, except for ...

1. Brand new seller.
2. One of the photos clearly shows the bike with a New York licence plate.
3. Use of the term "fender eliminator" in the description tends to suggest
Merkin bike.
4. Lid shown is a piss-pot job, although to be fair it is black.

So then, anybody fancy risking a grand and a half on it?

Nope ... I thought not.

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Kawasaki ZX-6R J1
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

AndrewR wrote

Can anybody out there pick anything off the For Sale sign? The first
picky looks as though it might be £22xx.

 

Or it could be $5300.

http://www.chooseyouritem.com/motorcycles/files/57500/57961.html

John

 

You bet me by 2 mins you traced the photo hosting as well ?

 

Yup. Quite an amateur attempt really. I've reported it to
eBay for what good it will do.

John

 

John Greystrong wrote

Oh look, it is in New York on this site.

 

John Greystrong wrote

Maybe you should have copied your complaint to the Merkin Embassy, if he
is a scrote then they should pass details back home and have his lawyer
get richer.

 

So amateur, that if you hover your mouse cursor over two of the pics
on the eBay auction, they tell you it is in Levittown, NY.

 

To save me from Pip's wrath, it's a pair of dogs testicles, removed
from a Yorkshire Terrier called Frank.

HTH,

Paul.

 

So that a non-ebayer understands, what's the point? Is it so the
buyer pays up, and then the seller tells them to **** off and keeps
the dough? Aren't there ebay rules about that? And, like, laws, and
stuff.

 

Although when I politely asked the eBay chap what was going on
he replied thusly:-

hi,
is my auction and i have put this item from ebay and from
www.chooseyouritem.com!
i want to sell the bike ASAP

John

 

Well the one in question has gone up by 550 quid since I posted it, so
people are bidding on it despite being able to see that it is registered in
New York.

There's probably just no helping some people.


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Kawasaki ZX-6R J1
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

So, umm... how does one know that one's a scam?

 

I suppose you don't *know*, but it certainly feels wrong.

 

Well the hints would be that the seller is brand new, they've never bought
or sold anything on e-bay before. Obviously every seller has to be new at
some point, but if they've at least bought something you have a small amount
of faith that they have valid contact details entered into the system.

Secondly they're offering an expensive bike for a low price with no reserve
and none of the usual "the bike is advertised elsewhere so I reserve the
right to end the auction early" which sellers normally stick in to cover
themselves if it looks like the bidding isn't going to get close to the
value of the vehicle.

Thirdly they're offering free postage in the UK, which seems unlikely. I'm
pretty sure that the deal they're trying for is you send them the payment
for the bike and they deliver it to you ... i.e. you send them your money
and then wait for them to show up. And wait. And wait.

Finally the bike has got a little Stars 'n' Stripes stuck on the frame -
even if the bike isn't Merkin would you buy a bike off a Brit with so little
self-esteem?


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Kawasaki ZX-6R J1
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

<G>
That's the clincher really.

 

And now it's vanished.

John

 

So, basically ebay-nerd stuff. I'm pretty sure I never want to get
involved in ebay.

Though I do want a Herman Miller office chair. **** it, I think I'll
just pay the shop price and be done with it.

heh.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2470326413

He sold the same bike last week, I wonder if the high bidder has paid for it
yet!

 

And apart from that the bike has one of those little side reflectors,
as required by the Yank fraternity, stuck on the caliper mounting
bolt. Dead giveaway.