Crazy Bidding

[Bill]

Yep that's the one although his feedback count against his name is 72, if you look at his feedback he has been involved in 161 good transactions, just as mine is 339 counted but 435 total.

Phil has posted links to two different sellers, the first the subject of David's inital post re price (new_cactus, Italy) , the second (munosch, Germany) whom you have linked to is the one who withdrew the items

[iann]

The difference between the two numbers is down to multiple ratings from the same person, which are included in the 162 but not in the 72.

[David_L]

A useful rule of thumb I use for Ebay is to be suspicious of anyone selling higher value items who doesn't take Paypal. Paypal gives a significant extra degree of buyer protection and compensation.

[Bill]

Useful but not alway true, I run a Ebay account for my father-in-law and he only accepts cheques, cash and direct payment, his auctions average about ?260, he just does not like credit cards etc and using third parties a bit old fashioned.

Other things to watch out for are:

people who suddenly start selling a number of expensive items that have no relation to thier previous sales;

have not sold anything for a long time;

can only answer questions via an e-mail address rather than "ask the buyer a question"

pre-approved bidders only;

a low Buy-It-Now price;

One good way to catch scammers out is to ask about collection, often you will find the dodgy ones will reply in bad English and all of them will be very evasive. As I have mentioned before if some one spots a dodgy Land rover one we usualy have a bit of fun baiting them, we had 7 different reasons from 1 seller as to why we couldn't collect it.

[Dirk Everaerd]

ALMOST 1000? (973) Dizzy!!!!!!!1161? NOW



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[Guest]

Take care on some of the new listings from the same guy as this one as he is showing pictures of mature plants but they are actually seedlings.

[Phil_SK]

What more is there to say? Ariocarpus

[AntonyC]

Hi Bob,
Are the plants in the advert A. Intermedius or A.Fissuratus?? Look like some that i have got labelled up as the latter.....
Ant

[iann]

Antony, the plant pictured in the eBay photo is lifted from Cactusmania where it is described as A. fissuratus v intermedius. I don't know if Cactus Plaza is connected with Cactusmania. Of course, its anybody's guess what you will actually receive, and the innacurate description doesn't add any confidence.