Ebay LOT: Keithley 2002 8.5 Digit Meter - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 02:13:44 am
content: I got this email alert for half a dozen Keithley 2002'sBut upon clicking the links they are now all gone?

author: CalMachine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 02:49:22 am
content: Dave,I saw this as well! I was even the winning bidder on several of them. Low and behold... they were removed before the auction ended. I wonder what the deal was?!

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 02:56:28 am
content: Quote from: CalMachine on May 06, 2017, 02:49:22 amMaybe someone offered them a bucket load of money for the lot?

author: CalMachine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 02:58:59 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 06, 2017, 02:56:28 amI could definitely see that.! I would have loved to have snagged one, on the cheap, for my home lab. A 3458A is still fairly pricey at the moment and there are none that are in the need of repair for a project.

author: TheSteve
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 03:38:21 am
content: Pretty sure those were bogus listings from a hacked account.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 04:03:54 am
content: If the prices were too good and there were a bunch of other items, especially unrelated ones or placed in the wrong category, then it was probably bogus -- a hacked account, as Steve said. I caught several such instances a couple months ago, flagging them each time I bumped into them. eBay must've gotten many such reports because the listings didn't survive for very long.

author: DaJMasta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 05:50:08 am
content: A couple months ago I saw a seller that had good feedback and such that suddenly listed a couple hundred items (including a couple of lecroy scopes, bikes, guitars, etc.) all at low starting prices, often in the wrong category, all with seemingly normal descriptions and pictures, and all in very short succession.The listings lasted about a day. Saw it a second time, different user, similar products and details, and disappeared again.My theory is that there's a bot out there that will get a hold of an account somehow, then list a number of items - probably ones that are harvested in the preceding years from real listings - and ebay is going in, finding they're fake, and removing the listings. Each one I'd seen looked like a real listing and from a real seller, but it was usually an account with a couple hundred feedback over ten years that suddenly listed 400 items.The weirdest part is that some of the deleted listings that I had watched still sent me "this item is ending" notifications when it would have ended, even though the listings no longer showed in my watch list or on the site.

author: nidlaX
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 06:30:55 am
content: Saw this, but then again I've seen the pictures for this particular 2002 so many times that it was an easy report.There's a big test equipment dealer on eBay that shoots their pictures in this style.The unfortunate issue with this batch of scams is that one of the hacked seller accounts happens to be a test equipment / industrial surplus dealer. If you had simply checked his sold items history, you might've thought his 2002 listing was legit. However, these scammers aren't very sophisticated and always list a bunch of shit from many different categories simultaneously, which is very obvious and suspicious. When a seller who's only sold vintage trinkets for the past year shows up with a lot of thermal cameras all of a sudden, you know something's up.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 12:38:06 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 06, 2017, 02:56:28 amNo, Ebay is being flooded with scam listings lately. The tell-tale sign is an image with text telling not to bid but to contact the seller directly. This has been going on for years! I don't understand why people even bid if the description tells them not to!

author: CalMachine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2017, 02:55:37 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 06, 2017, 12:38:06 pmThere was nothing in regards to contacting the seller directly, instead of bidding. And not everyone has been on ebay for yearsCome down off your high horse a little bit?With that said, I will gladly commit a few hundred $$ on a K2002 that had an Ebay money back guarantee. If it happened to be a scam and the listing gets taken down, guess how much I am out?

author: azer
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2017, 11:36:09 am
content: I remember checking each, and half of them had the picture, the rest had normal non-suspicious text.I've seen the same picture on a previous occasion for a 3458 and it was taken down pretty quickly.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 09, 2017, 05:18:24 pm
content: I saw another flood last night from a hacked account and flagged a bunch of spectrum analyzers as fraudulent. They're already gone. So, eBay is trying to keep up.

author: nikonoid
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2017, 04:00:32 am
content: I saw this specific situation and contacted directly the guy who is a director for fraud department at eBay.I think this specific case was even worse than hijacked account. They used automated trading selling worthless items to each other (under $5). They build reputation over few years and then strike with a hundreds of high priced items and typically short 3 day auctions.eBay guarantee is good, but still take a lot of time and effort to get your money back.Now for auctions like this, not only I check the reputation of the seller, but also a history of his transactions. If someone only sold books before and now is selling 10 different kinds of precision electronics overnight .... I do not think so.

author: tablatronix
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2017, 12:02:05 am
content: I fell for this yesterday, failed to notice all the ratings were for recipes and stupid ebay listed some other ratings as withon last month, when they were all within 24 hours , account should have been red flagged by ebay instantly , i also did not know what the changed username in last 30 days was. Last time i ever ebay on a mobile device in mobile mode. I hope i get my money back i cant even notify then injust have to wait to not get it.... I guess i can contact and saybsuspicious ratings butnits all help bots and there is no category for that

author: ralphrmartin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2017, 05:39:30 pm
content: Saw a 600MHz LeCroy scope today on eBay UK, similar (probably identical) to one just sold. I placed a low bid on it, but it has already been removed.

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 16, 2017, 07:42:33 pm
content: Quote from: ralphrmartin on May 16, 2017, 05:39:30 pmDid it look like this one?http://www.ebay.com/itm/LeCroy-WaveRunner-64Xi-Digital-Oscilloscope-600MHz-10GSs-Working-condition-/371952553941?hash=item569a198fd5:g:uRkAAOSw1WJZG1PsAn obvious scam...

author: Jwalling
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 16, 2017, 07:59:17 pm
content: Quote from: Jwalling on May 16, 2017, 07:42:33 pmGone515 minutes or so later.