Check out the email i sent the guy:

Just to let you know...YOU SHOULD NOT BE SELLING STOLEN PROPERTY ON EBAY!

How did the clips get broken? Yeah...you broke it when you were jacking them off the car you stole it from.

Please provide me with proff that these lights are yours from your nissan and i will purchase them.
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Title of item: 2002 Nissan Maxima HID headlights ~pair~
Seller: catfed169
Starts: Jan-10-03 15:10:50 PST
Ends: Jan-17-03 15:10:50 PST
Price: Currently $227.50
To view the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2400030472

 

This is being discussed on this forum here: Another set of stolen HIDs on ebay

 

Tha guy has *****! He's even got a reserve on them!

 

yeah tell me about it! A FREAKEN RESERVE PRICE!

Thats just sad

 

Since ebay isn't doing anything. Why doesn't someone start a dummy account and bid the h$%$ out of these?

 

The reason he has a reserve price is so people can bid and he can keep the buy it now price...It is a tactic many, many sellers are using now. I look at auctions 10 hours a day, 5 days a week...I am the .org authority on eBay auctions

 

Thats a great idea. Bid like $950 right off the bat early on.
Is there a way to do this repetively?

 

you do realize if you bid, you are responsible to buy it becuase you abided by ebay licensing terms of aggreement.

Just be carefull.

 

That kinda what I was asking, I should have worded it better. I'm talking about setting up a BS account. How would 1 do that?

 

But if the seller claims that they are not stolen and cannot provide proof then the deal is void. I can't imagine that this guy would take you to court:

"Your honor, this gentleman would not buy my stolen HIDs!"

Should we be sending an e-mail to e-bay? I know that they have stopped the sale of other items before, if they get enough complaints would this be any different?

 

Right try telling that to the dead beats that balk on my auctions ALL the time. The best you can do is get ebay to send them a warning, after three warnings there account is deleted. There is nothing you can do to make someone pay for an auction they won.

Start a BS account with BS information. That is all.

 

There account will not be deleted, only suspended...The only way for you to set up an account now is to provide your credit card info, which can be traced back to any and all of the other accounts you have. And if they tie the BS account to your other accounts, all of your accounts will be indefinietely suspended...I deal with this all day long.

Another thing for you to remember is that the seller can simply block you from bidding on his item, and then report you to eBay. If you continue to bid, you will be suspended and the rest of your accounts will be suspended as well.

Just food for thought

 

You mind posting an example of how that would work?

Buzz

 

well the guy just sent me a reply!

Thanks for the email,
I understand perfectly where your coming from, any person will think the same. But im letting you know that im not a theif i just buy them from the junk yards from damaged cars. If you are really interested in buying them, I will provide you with a reciept for these lights.
thanks,
catfed169@aol.com

 

I guess he didn't have his ratchet wrench when he went to the junk yard

Ask him for the receipts, I would be interested to see if he is legit. Then again, I can make receipts all day long in Quickbooks...really helps when you want to get work done out of warantee.

 

Can't you sign up with a legit email address also? and those can be faked. There are enough of us here to rotate bidding...

 

You really want an example, just go look at the auction he is running...11 bids, and the reserve has not been met...yet somehow the buy it now price remains...On normal auctions without a reserve AND a buy it now price, as soon as one bid is placed, the buy it now price disappears...This is a well known fact in the eBay community

 

I see what you mean. I had seen so many "buy it now" with reserves attached, I assumed it was the norm. So, I guess by design the "buy it now" should disappear once the first bid is placed. Vely Intelesting!

Buzz

 

Although right under the "buy it now" it states that it goes away when the reserve is met. So, they're setting the reserve greater than the "buy it now" price?

Buzz

 

it seems that the user "kimblueangel" really wants those stolen HIDs. I email him/her informing the high likehood these are stolen and asking to retract but seems to keep on bidding. I have an idea! Why not create that BS account to a legit e-mail and do the buy it now. Then demand proof these are not stolen and then leave a negative feedback "selling stolen headlights". This way we send him through the trouble to setting himself again/creating enough feedbacks to sell. Or at least, people would know or have an idea. What do you guys think?

 

how about we just flood his E mail with questions about the HID's?

 

I sent him an e-mail askin nicely for proof of purchase and how the tabs were broken. this was the response I got.

Thanks for the email,
If you are really interested in buying them, these lights came from damaged cars in junk yards. I will provide you with a reciept if you are buying these lights, and if your just being curious of where i got them. please dont.
thanks,
catfed169@aol.com

 

Any *******sss can fabricate a receipt...

 

Give me 5 mins in photoshop and i can say he bought the whole junk yard

 

Nothing is going to stop the HID's from being stolen. Our body shop got 2 more in just this week alone. We are now averageing over 2 cars/week at the shop for HID theft.

Great for business, bad for Nissan owners.

 

What a bunch of BS, He would be lucky if the HID's even made it to a salvage yard. If the lot owners didn't ****** these up, one of the workers would.

 

There's a drivers side HID being sold on ebay from a seller called coolmomo or something. This person has been trying to sell it for some time now. This is the third attempt I've seen at this person selling this. Each time, not a single person bid on it. The price is good, but does anyone have opinions on this person? I need a drivers side HID to fix my car.

Here's the link HID

 

ask him if he has proof of purchase and what nissan dealer he got it from. Then call the dealer and see if its legit. Matt

 

These suggestions for dealing with the ebay poster are only a temporary measure. He will find another way to re-list or sell the merchandise on the streets. We need to be smarter but putting them behind bars. Only way is to match the S/N to a VIN. Please read my replies to the other thread and contribute.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=181421

 

I just emailed him, so let's see what he says. I don't suppose anyone got a drivers' HID they wanna get rid of?

 

this is very sad

 

This is the response I got from the seller. SHE said:

"None of my items are stolen.. I pay for everything I get...Yes I can prove that I paid for it ... and I would rather not say what dealer I got it from

thanks for asking"


I responded back asking how she can prove purchase and asked questions like: Why are you selling? Do you have a max? etc.

I'm just wondering why she doesn't want to say what dealer.