What am I missing? MH on Ebay ... (1 Viewer)

[hymerbeliever]

The link does not take you to ebay. It takes you to a fake ebay look alike site with poor url spelling "wiew". Look at the address...that's why it doesnt appear when you search ebay.co.uk

http://wiew-item-for-sale.wz.cz/ws/uk/2004%20Motorhome%20Auto%20Sleeper/ViewItem&Item1.htm?ViewItem&item=2004%20Motorhome%20Auto%20Sleeper%20Caravan%20Nuevo%20ES%20Camper%20Van

Bit overpriced for an Autosleeper if you ask me tho! lol

 

[White Rose]

Please can I just stress again that google didn't take me to this ad, eBay did. Google simply took me to eBay.co.uk - not to a scam eBay site, but the real thing. Google is a perfectly good tool to find the correct URL for sites if used correctly and, in this case, it did its job perfectly.

Themountaintiger - thank you for the link to your helpful post on another thread on this topic, it kind of makes a bit more sense now - though I'm still not quite sure how the re-direct can happen from within ebay (and I suspect the answer to that would take me out of my technical comfort zone!).

 

[rainbow chasers]

You do often find scam sales on ebay - they do get taken off as regularly as they go on - but they are hoping to snare the innocent and ill informed into thinking the seller is dumb, and selling under value.

Of course everyone else knows this is a scam - especially as every time they do it, they put a green box around the picture! Bit of a warning eh?? Seen a few bargains that are definitely TO BE MISSED like this! lol!

Just an after thought - when buying from places like ebay - pay attention to the prices - they are often not that much cheaper than the dealers - you are getting no warranty either, so that 2k saving may cost a bit more once you find water in the gearbox or similar.

Just a thought!

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[themountaintiger]

ebay scamming

Please can I just stress again that google didn't take me to this ad, eBay did. Google simply took me to eBay.co.uk - not to a scam eBay site, but the real thing. Google is a perfectly good tool to find the correct URL for sites if used correctly and, in this case, it did its job perfectly.

Themountaintiger - thank you for the link to your helpful post on another thread on this topic, it kind of makes a bit more sense now - though I'm still not quite sure how the re-direct can happen from within ebay (and I suspect the answer to that would take me out of my technical comfort zone!).

Hi White Rose, you have hit the crux of the issue which is that ebay should counteract the ability of the scammers to place redirect coding within the scammers motorhome sale page entry. Scammers can do this technically be adding in web code within their ebay sales entry.

When any user adds their new item sales information to ebay, that information is being saved (in laymans terms) to the ebay server. Somewhere within the adding of information about the item, the scammers have found a place to add a quite simple line of html text stating on item page load, redirect to the following web site. They shouldnt be able to do this, but have obviously found a way of doing it. If I come across another scam listing ill get my techies to see where the illicit code is within the page before it redirects and have another go at ebay techie support....