Something smells fishy

[harleydan]

Check this out on ebay...item # 180048723899

A 1970 280SL with buy it now price of $5,400.

Cheers,
Danny
1970 280SL Euro silver manual

[al_lieffring]

I cut and pasted that item number in E-bay search and was taken to a Nokia doo dad of some sort.

113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket

[Kenneth Gear]

For some reason I have noticed quite a few Buy It Now ebay listings for cars set at $5,400.  In all cases the cars are worth many times that amount.  Must be one scammer trying to find a taker.

Ken G
1971 280 SL
Silver/red

[Amanda]

I think I saw the same one and thought immediately, this must be a scam.  There's clearly something weird going on, when I tried to hit the "watch this item" it took me to the Nokia item too.

Then I tried copying the webline, and I noticed that it is not even an ebay cite - it show's up on the ebay search, but then immediately redirects you to a geocities.com site

http://www.geocities.com/cglmotows/1970-MERCEDES-BENZ-280SL_W0QQitemZ180049723899QQihZ008QQcategoryZ6338QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.html

I have attempted to report it to Ebay.

Amanda
1966 230SL
Manual
Red/Tan
Los Angeles

[ChrisInNashville]

Folks, there are some excellent prior posts in the forum on ebay scams.   The "redirects" indicate that you might want to do a malware or spyware scan on your computer.

Same thing happened with my wife last month on Trek bikes.   Price too good to be true...they wouldn't take PayPal only wires(for a $2,500 bike)...this combination inevitably flags a fraud.

When you come across this on ebay, I encourage you to report it to ebay immediately...Ebay is a great resource and we have to collectively work to keep it clean.