[Collins] Ebay withdrawals???

[LeeCraner at aol.com]

In a message dated 02/19/2006 3:47:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
geraldj at ispwest.com writes:

> Its been happening more in farm tractors. Lots of times the disappearing
> items have been scams, sales pages stolen from legitimate items but with
> inconsistent locations and pictures of items already sold. Some times
> when asked the seller gives different location and descriptions that are
> on the ebay page. Often the seller has a bogus e-mail address in a
> different country than the supposed sale item location. Then someone
> recognizes the pictures as being from something advertised (or personal
> pictures from their own web page having nothing to do with epay) and
> complains to ebay, then is when those get withdrawn.
> 
> 

This is exactly what happened on a Hallicrafters FPM-200.  About a month 
after the close of a legitimate auction for this very rare transceiver, another 
"popped" up, using the same pictures and description, but from another seller.  
A couple days later, an eBay message stated it was no longer for sale and the 
listing itself was removed.  If a seller pulls the item, the listing remains, 
but is marked "closed" and the reason stated, in the listing itself, is that 
the seller withdrew the item, usually with the explanation "Item no longer for 
sale."  

73
Lee WB6SSW