This guy is trying to rip me off on ebay. How should I respond to his email

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Screndib: May 12, 2001

Yeah, I'd string him along for a while, at least get the shipping address so you know for sure that it is in fact this professor guy and not somebody that just grabbed a random name out of the phone book. I'd say just seriously go along with it until you have more evidence then nail the jackass to a wall.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:14

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 17:57

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

Email sent!

Well that sounds ok to me! I was able to log onto your internet web site. (Which I must say looks very nice to me!)
I just had a few questions. . .

What should I use for a user name and password? I like to use the same thing for everything. Ebay, paypal, email. . . is that ok?
In your FAQ, I noticed that you can use the set-ltd.net services, and it does not have to be an �online� purchase. But if its not online, how do they get to your website?

Thank you!
Jeff

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:15

karmaflux: Feb 26, 2004; by Lowtax

Oh god, please ask him about his strong digital defense. PLEASE

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:15

filo: Jan 27, 2004; run run run run run

:lol::lol:

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:15

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

Jesus loving hell, it's obvious the person who wrote that email is not from the united states. Don't gently caress with whoever this professor is, it's not him, and you'll just be harrassing some innocent guy.

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evilweasel fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Apr 23, 2004

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:16

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

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karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
Oh god, please ask him about his strong digital defense. PLEASE

Next email; done, and done.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:17

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:
Jesus loving hell, it's obvious the person who wrote that email is not from anyone in the united states. Don't gently caress with whoever this professor is, it's not him, and you'll just be harrassing some innocent guy.

Well, he needs to at least let Professor Guy know that someone is using his name to register fraudulent escrow sites.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:18

FunkyBunny: Apr 8, 2003; If I don't stop the whole jerk act, I will be banned. Please report me for being a jerk if I am acting like one.

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Thanos came out of the closet to say:

Well, he needs to at least let Professor Guy know that someone is using his name to register fraudulent escrow sites.

Yes, but that can wait till after on the off chance that this professor is the dumbest person alive. I mean, for all we know, he could have brought this on himself.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:22

Thenipwax: Jun 20, 2001; by Ozmaugh

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:
Jesus loving hell, it's obvious the person who wrote that email is not from the united states.

Yeah, cause everybody knows that everybody in the US speaks perfect english.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:23

SweeneyTodd: May 30, 2002; Forums Barber

If he closes with the email listing the guy's name and his bosses' name, it will either (a) gently caress with him, or (b) let him know the jig is up and that you know he's guilty of identity theft. either way, he's just sending the email to the original address; it's not like he's calling the guy.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:23

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

quote:

Thenipwax came out of the closet to say:

Yeah, cause everybody knows that everybody in the US speaks perfect english.

Professors in the United States speak better english than whoever wrote that email.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:24

karmaflux: Feb 26, 2004; by Lowtax

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:
Jesus loving hell, it's obvious the person who wrote that email is not from the united states. Don't gently caress with whoever this professor is, it's not him, and you'll just be harrassing some innocent guy.

Yeah, hey, if you'd've paid more attention, you'd've noticed the dude is living in Terre Haute AND he's from Thailand AT THE SAME TIME. How bout that? Damnedest thing.

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quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:

Professors in the United States speak better english than whoever wrote that email.

Have you been to college? I can't remember ever having a Calc teacher I could understand.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:25

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:26

AngryLogic: Feb 21, 2004

What type of email address is this coming from? If its not a hotmail/yahoo account and he's the real professor I'll bet you can track the email headers back to that schools mail server.

Even if you can't trace it back to the school if it is going through a non-free email server you can trace it back to the area of the world he's in.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:27

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:

Professors in the United States speak better english than whoever wrote that email.

Not ones who hail from Thailand. Read the man's profile.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:28

evilweasel: Aug 24, 2002

quote:

karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
Have you been to college? I can't remember ever having a Calc teacher I could understand.

Uh yeah, I'm in college. Even professors that arn't native english speakers tend to be able to speak the language better than the writer of that email.

quote:

CapnAndy came out of the closet to say:
Not ones who hail from Thailand. Read the man's profile.

quote:

Master�s degree in Interior Design from Iowa State University.

He's been over here for some time.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:28

karmaflux: Feb 26, 2004; by Lowtax

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:

Uh yeah, I'm in college. Even professors that arn't native english speakers tend to be able to speak the language better than the writer of that email.

One of my circuitry teachers spoke no english. His TA was a translator.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:29

FunkyBunny: Apr 8, 2003; If I don't stop the whole jerk act, I will be banned. Please report me for being a jerk if I am acting like one.

quote:

evilweasel came out of the closet to say:

Professors in the United States speak better english than whoever wrote that email.

I disagree.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:30

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

Well, when I looked up the email address that came in on the "Question from ebay member," his ebay account returned ****

What's strange is his feedback -
**** 's feedback

Left by Date S/B
**** (37034) ) Apr-19-04 03:06 B
Praise : sehr schnelle Zahlung, vielen Dank! Besuchen Sie wieder https://www.copro-computer.com
**** (1103) ) Apr-10-04 01:41 B
Praise : schnelle Bezahlung, gerne wieder ,danke
**** (1274) )

All his feedback was left by him!

Overall profile makeup
261 positives. 230 are from unique users.
1 neutrals.
3 negatives. 3 are from unique users

Only 25 actuall feedback entries are viewable. Usually these people have pages of feedback entries! Perhaps it is not our professor.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:31

P-niiice: May 21, 2001; I have you now.

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FunkyBunny came out of the closet to say:

I disagree.

I agree with your disagreement.

i do this out of total for you lololl

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:31

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Jeff, that makes no sense. Does he have three pieces of feedback, all left by himself, or 265? Or 25? And how does any of that make it not the professor?

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:33

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

Look at this one he left for himself!

**** (367) ) Feb-16-04 04:51 B
Praise : ��TOP��,��,��EBAYER��,��,��SUPER��,��,��FAST��,��,��PAYMENT��,��,��

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:33

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

quote:

CapnAndy came out of the closet to say:
Jeff, that makes no sense. Does he have three pieces of feedback, all left by himself, or 265? Or 25? And how does any of that make it not the professor?

Well, I can always post the email address that came in as "Question from ebay member"
then you all can look it up yourselves and see what I'm talking about. I can't just post a link to his feedback page for some reason. Go ebay.

Anyone care to see?

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:35

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

quote:

MyNameIsJeff came out of the closet to say:
Look at this one he left for himself!

**** (367) ) Feb-16-04 04:51 B
Praise : ��TOP��,��,��EBAYER��,��,��SUPER��,��,��FAST��,��,��PAYMENT��,��,��

What do you mean he left it for himself?

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:37

ChlamydiaJones: Sep 27, 2002; My Estonian riding instructor told me; "Mine munni ahvi t�ra imeja", and I live by that every day!; Ramrod XTreme

I'm in on the university profs do not have to speak or wrie english gud bus; I've had several who I could not understand at all. Passed the classes by reading the book many many times.

If you send that info to the department head you will probably rape this guy. Just be sure to tell the department head that you have also sent this to the local news station to investigate (so she can't clean it up quietly). Universities HATE it when they get their names in the paper like that.

And "masters in interior design"? good god what a lame degree.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:37

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

quote:

MyNameIsJeff came out of the closet to say:
Anyone care to see?

Yeah. At least a couple people are confused right now.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:38

Otokodate: Jan 15, 2004; All your nuts are belong to me

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Thenipwax came out of the closet to say:

Yeah, cause everybody knows that everybody in the US speaks perfect english.

I had a class taught by a guy from China who had a thick accent AND a lisp.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:39

EIDE Van Hagar: Dec 8, 2000; Beep Boop

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evilweasel came out of the closet to say:

Professors in the United States speak better english than whoever wrote that email.

This is an out and out lie. One of my calc profs was from russia, and his second language was spanish, and then he learned english in the UK. So, he had a british accent on top of a spanish accent on top of a russian accent. You couldn't understand a SINGLE THING the guy said.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:39

karmaflux: Feb 26, 2004; by Lowtax

This guy?

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:40

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quote:

karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
This guy?

That would be too easy. It can't be him. Plus the location from the auctions he was the seller of is Austin, Texas.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:42

MyNameIsJeff: Dec 5, 2003; P-P-P-Powerbook.com!

quote:

karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
This guy?

No. I think ebay is just showing me his feedback, and ****-ing his real username. look up scont06@yahoo.com

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:43

CanSpice: Jan 12, 2002; GO CANUCKS GO

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MyNameIsJeff came out of the closet to say:

No. I think ebay is just showing me his feedback, and ****-ing his real username. look up scont06@yahoo.com

His username and the usernames in his feedback are ****'ed out because of European privacy laws.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:45

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

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CanSpice came out of the closet to say:

His username and the usernames in his feedback are ****'ed out because of European privacy laws.

Ah! That makes sense.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:45

pipebomb: May 12, 2001; Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.

http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=msalamon = scont06@yahoo.com

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:47

Kwagga: Jun 11, 2002; I am small

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CanSpice came out of the closet to say:

His username and the usernames in his feedback are ****'ed out because of European privacy laws.

I don't think you can actually leave feedback for yourself on eBay. So I would assume the other ****'s are from other users.

edit : And if that is a result of European privacy laws, then I'm willing to bet the good Professor has been inadvertently dragged into this by identity theft.

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:47

lushka16: Apr 8, 2003; Doctor of Love; College Slice

England to US to Germany. What a twisted web of lies.. or something.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:50

karmaflux: Feb 26, 2004; by Lowtax

Yeah, the ascii wave is from a user called "fersanmur" for instance. We gently caress your privacy laws here in the states.

Edit: msalamon( 227) **** BEWERTUNGEN BITTE NICHT VERGESSEN ****

German goons, wtf does that mean? Something please no something?

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# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:50

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

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ilovemonkeys came out of the closet to say:

I don't think you can actually leave feedback for yourself on eBay. So I would assume the other ****'s are from other users.

Ahh. That clears up my confusion over what he said.

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:51

lushka16: Apr 8, 2003; Doctor of Love; College Slice

quote:

karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, the ascii wave is from a user called "fersanmur" for instance. We gently caress your privacy laws here in the states.

Edit: msalamon( 227) **** BEWERTUNGEN BITTE NICHT VERGESSEN ****

German goons, wtf does that mean? Something please no something?

EVALUATIONS REQUEST NOT FORGETTING

Yay altavista.

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 17:57

FunkyBunny: Apr 8, 2003; If I don't stop the whole jerk act, I will be banned. Please report me for being a jerk if I am acting like one.

^^^ yea, that makes tons of sense... ^^^

quote:

karmaflux came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, the ascii wave is from a user called "fersanmur" for instance. We gently caress your privacy laws here in the states.

Edit: msalamon( 227) **** BEWERTUNGEN BITTE NICHT VERGESSEN ****

German goons, wtf does that mean? Something please no something?

It means something along the lines of "bear in mind" or "not to mention"
EDIT: about evalutations (forgot the bewertungen). Essentially don't forget about them.

FunkyBunny fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 23, 2004

# ? Apr 23, 2004 18:55

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