Something looks weird about this auctions?

I had this guy busted on ebay, a few weeks ago, I prevented a multi $1000's fraud. He was hacking in to Dormant ebay accounts. what he was doing was running big dollar auctions, using other dormant acounts to be the winners. then he would exchange feedbacks within the bogus auctions with pirated id's. by doing this he was giving him self "recent positive feedback" to make future buyers feel confident. it would be a matter of time before he had over 20+ auctions worth over $20K EACH!. The way i caught on to his scam, he was a 2+ year dormant account. All of his recent feedback was from 2+ dormant accounts. He listed A no.33 amp in one auction, As i was notifing all of his high bidders , a person responded that he was in contact with the seller, and the action was for one ,JUST ONE MONO amp?.
he had quite a few Auctions running AT THE SAME TIME and ended THE SAME TIME. he would not respond to Any of my emails asking for serial numbers to verify it with levinson. after alll the actions ended, I warned all 4 highest bidders, the auctions are a fraud. the irony i found out was........... all of the high biders where suspended along with all of the "people" who gave him the "recent positve feedback" so actually i was warning the scam artist himself! Well EBAY suspended all acounts, as you can see in his auction histories, and the best is the bid history where you see all of the high biders in all auctions got suspended. Also see his feedback.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1352490362

user id is "cincinoh"

did i get a thanks from EBAY..............NO

Anthony

My hat is off to all of your fine detective work. As for me, I buy records on ebay, but have never looked for audio gear, and never will. Viva Audiogon!

These guys generally don't know much about high-end audio. That's why they copy the ads. The other thing they do is use a picture of the back of an amplifier....and nothing else. How many real audiophiles would only put up a picture of the back of an amp? There are many on Audioweb using US addresses. One guy supposedly in Ft. Collins, CO (doesn't exist, I checked) is advertising a McIntosh car amp as home audio. That's our advantage. If it looks weird, it is.

The message is consistently the same - do your homework, communicate fully, promptly and effectively BEFORE anything changes hands. Get comfortable that you know who you're dealing with. I have had a couple dozen very satisfying (and cost effective!) transactions involving audio gear, and the only time I got burned was when I was impatient and dealt with somebody who wasn't good at communicating. It should have been a clear sign, but I ignored it. Clearly, from the posts above, just asking a few questions was enough to get the scammer to decide to not burn the questioner.

I think it's great that there are people who, having identified this, have spent the time it takes to notify the sites and the potential buyers - you've done a great deed! -Kirk

Here's some new postings from Barcelona, Canada? Is that like Paris, Texas? You'll notice the ML 336 with the reserve met at $2000. What a deal! Buyer beware.
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=johnandretu&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25

Paul