Posted by: Brian Boyle (---.access.uk.tiscali.com)
Date: January 23, 2005 06:42AM
Member no 487
I bid for this item but was beaten by a much higher bid. I was later approached to buy the item as a second chance as the seller said the highest bidder had dropped out. The forms used to send me this information looked like the real ebay stuff but came from an email address that was not the same as the original seller!!! Buyer beware!
I contacted the winning bidder and he confirmed that he had in fact bought the engine and sent off his money to the States! So the offer to me was a scam, it was too good to be true.
The winning bidder asked me to phone him, which I did and he was able to establish that the original seller was genuine and all was well.
So as a warning, double check any offers from ebay that look too good, check the email address from whence the offer comes.