If you find bicycle auctions on eBay that you think are suspicious, shoot me a private message with the auction ID. Basically, what I've found is high feedback accounts listing Cervelos. They're obviously fraudulent auctions because the component list bears absolutely no connection to what's actually on the bike in the pictures. I used to just send nasty emails to the *seller* (ok, I still do), but when there's a pattern between multiple auctions (in this case the same person has likely hijacked a bunch of different user accounts and is listing many different Cervelos) it gives ebay something to work with (they investigate and if they find a strange pattern in the account usage they suspend the account, thereby ending the auction).
I doubt we'll send anyone to jail, but we can at least make it more trouble than it's worth for the scam artists.
I doubt we'll send anyone to jail, but we can at least make it more trouble than it's worth for the scam artists.