eBay fraud alert - Telescopes
If you were bidding or thinking about it for any of the eBay 24-hour Australian auctions today for 'Questar DUPLEX TELESCOPE BB coatings', or 'Celestron nexstar 11 schmidt-Cassegrain' or 'Meade 178ED APO Refractor OTA', their prompt deletion by eBay has saved you some trauma. These were all fraudulent, using a hijacked eBay account.
There were many similar fraudulent 24-hour auctions also underway today using the same account - all offering too cheap to be true, buy it now prices outside the eBay system, using Gmail contact addresses. All have now been deleted.
Please do not be tempted if you ever see an eBay auction with the combination of very short auction duration and too cheap price via direct seller contact outside eBay - this is a typical modus operandi with a hijacked account and there is no protection for unwary buyers under these circumstances. If think you've spotted a dodgy one, you can simply click the Report item flag near the top right of an auction page and select from the following drop-downs/check boxes, to let eBay know that you suspect fraud: they'll do the rest.
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