Have I been conned

go and collect it, get it checked out when you get there, get the guy to boot it up and see it working, unused and unwanted gift, if boxed and looking ok, it sells retail for £410 so you might have a bargain, £100 saved.

check out one from the chandlers first, so you know what you are looking at, and what to expect when you open the box. you will then be forewarned when you get to see your auctioned item ...

If you don't like what you see....
You can always walk away, and put negative feedback on ebay...
 
Definitely good advice from colvic987 - getting an advance hands-on in the chandlers will make it easy for you to know what you're looking at when you go to collect. The listing offers cash on collection as an acceptable payment method, so I'd contact the seller, tell him that you are going to go for that option, and again as colvic987 suggests, I'd take a friend.

Good luck! Let us know how you get on.
 
Personal experience of e-bay and any so called cover they offer against rogue sellers...it is not worth "diddly squat" I would not pay, the alarm bells are ringing, I would heed them.
Final analysis, do you feel lucky? Well do ya!
 
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Just bid successfully for a Raymarine RC400 chartplotter on ebay for £301.

Now I know I am probably being paranoid but the item says 'unwanted gift' but looking on the sellers previous items (only an ebay member since January) it seems he sold a similar one last month.

I bid on this at the last minute without checking all the history so prob my fault. Have I been stupid? I haven't paid for it yet.

It's here:

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hoos a sily boy then /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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No it's the same one, if you look it didn't make the reserve last time.

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Yes it did - check the second item in his feedback.
 
gut instinct from looking at the item, his record, and feedback is that it's ok.

If I were buying, I'd go ahead, but it's your call. He's a new seller, he's got an ok track record, though not really enough to make any decisions on, but all sellers have to start somewhere, and if no one bought from new sellers.....

He's not done what most scammers do, and take over an existing account, or manufacture feedback in a ring.

Picking up is probably a good idea if you are passing anywhere nearby. I've done this with one new seller who didn't take paypal, and she was a lovely lady. No need for beefy backup I suspect
 
What a load of bollocks you are talking!!

The guy offers the opportunity of collecting the item in person - there is no other safer way of both seeing and paying for an item on eBay.

If the guy is guilty of anything then it's plagurism by using someone else's (in this case Raydirect) information.

As to "unwanted gift" reference there is a lot of speculatiion that the guy is trying to con you. I have sold on eBay , on behalf of someone else, an unwanted gift. The guy doesn't say that this item was a gift to him - it could (but I'm no saying it is) just as easily be a gift to someone else that he is selling on their behalf.

As to the point he has sold the same item cheaper that has nothing whatsover to do with this "win". The guy offered an item for auction and the winner, thinking he was on a bargain, jumped in an "won". With a bit nore care and forethought he would find the same item on a buy it now for £235 and £19 P&P.

If I was the seller of this item then I would be mightily pi$$ed off that this type of discussion was even taking place. SHAME ON SOME OF YOU /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
Whats the problem? It all looks above board to me. In any case you have no redress now unless the description is clearly wrong, and it isnt a 400C, parts are missing, or its dead!

Take your cash and go and collect it. Forget about cheques. If you go back on the deal now without good reason under Ebay rules, you will get Neg Feedback, and you will be logged as a non-paying bidder if the seller complains. Ebay seems to take non-payers more seriously than fraudulent auction entries for some reason....

As Steve Clayton says, the fact he has sold the same item before at a lower price means nothing, except he was less lucky with the end price in the previous sale.

Its too late to worry now - go and collect it. You have no choice; if he is not a fraud, and you back down, then you are!
 
He's emailed me to say the 'unwanted gift' bit was a mistake as he had plagiarised the description from somewhere else. He says he bought a job lot cheap and is reselling them.

I'll take the cash and collect. think I'll take my Mum as well though - nobody f's about with my Mum.
 
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