I received an odd email a few days ago and want to tell everyone about it. Here is the email:
I am the eBay seller of Item number 190097412958.You expressed interest
in my item by bidding, however the auction has ended with another eBay
member as the high bidder. Because the winner of my auction didn't
respond to my emails after winning the auction, I want to issue a second
chance offer to you. There are a lot of bidders who bid on the auction
for fun and I hope you are serious buyer and we can make a clear deal. If
you accept my second chance offer we will be eligible for eBay services
associated with a transaction, such as fraud protection. To purchase my
item please reply me.
P.S. If you are interested i will wait your reply asap.
Thank you!
First off that is for the BB2 box that Nistle (8 Bit Advantage) sold to Erik (braveheart69). I know for a fact that Erik of course pays for what he buys so I smelled BS off the get go. Plus if it didnt sale Dustin would not have sent me an email from ebay trying to sale it to me. He would have PM'ed me here or IM'ed on AIM. So here was my responce:
So Braveheart69 didn't respond. Out of curiosity how much do you want?
his responce in turn:
Thanks for your fast reply , I want to let you know that the winner of my
auction didn't respond to my emails after winning the auction so you have
the opportunity to purchase this item at your bid price .If you want to
purchase the item i want to tell you that the deal will go strictly
according to ebay's rules and policy regarding to this second chance offer
and In order to start the process this i will need your userID, name and
address so i can start and register the transaction under the ebay and
Square Trade surveillance without any other problems. I'm asking you those
details cause this transaction is under the eBay and Square Trade
surveillance and protection and i will not do it with out eBay and Square
Trade protection.So if you are agree with me please let me know the details
i asked. As soon as I have them I'll start the official procedure, and ebay
and Square Trade will notify you about this. You'll also receive important
guidelines + instructions from them (please go through them exactly). I
don't usually pay for shipping but since this is a second chance offer i
will support all the shipping and insurance taxes, i hope to hear from you
soon. Thank you
So this really tosses up some red flags in my mind. I contacted Nistle at this point so he knew what was going on. I think he is in contact with ebay over this now.
me:
So are you sure that this was actually your auction, did you send me the correct item number for bubble bobble part 2 box? You are 8 bit advantave, correct? Let me know exactly how to proceed and exactly how much you are wanting for it shipped. Could you relist it on ebay and me pay the fees? I look forward to your responce.
him:
I haven't responed back to him yet, but I plan to call him out and see what he says now. I just wanted to let everyone know that if someone is contacting you to be careful.
Nistle you better contact all the people who bid on your auction and make sure they know what is going on.
The person who sent me these email name is Michael Moot and his email is
[email protected]. Does anyone know this name or whom this person is? Thoughts, suggestions?
~~NGD
Proud replier of post #1000 in the infamous Joel thread 
