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It won't ruin your ebay profile to retract a bid , if you don't do it too often. You just claim to have entered the wrong amount and your bid is retracted .
ie current bid is £950 reserve not met. You place a bid at £10000 which is enough to show you their reserve , say £1900 , which is what your bid will show and "reserve met". Then you can retract your bid saying you entered the wrong amount , you only meant £1000. Simples !
I don't think its the same fella advertising it . There are no contact details apart from email seller which is a regular thing the scammers use. There are a lot on ebay at the moment where the cars are very low prices compared to others of the same type i.e. fully restored TR6 for 6 grand , mint Mexico 6 grand all with email seller as the contact. All seems a bit dodgy to me
I don't think its the same fella advertising it . There are no contact details apart from email seller which is a regular thing the scammers use. There are a lot on ebay at the moment where the cars are very low prices compared to others of the same type i.e. fully restored TR6 for 6 grand , mint Mexico 6 grand all with email seller as the contact. All seems a bit dodgy to me
Being on ebay quite a lot I've noticed those adverts, low prices and email only, but I don't get how they work. Are they just after your email so they can send you a virus or what? You're not going to part with money so I don't get it, or am I being dim and missing something (which is probably the case :-)).
I dont know what they can get out of it either,as you say Andy maybe they just want your email address,they are normally on a classified ad format as well.