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[Sarah Ovenall <sovenall AT nc.rr.com>]

> If Josep picks the escrow company there's no way he can lose money. 
> The  only thing to worry about is if its stolen.

Does the "grey market" issue apply to computers? When I bought my 
camera, there were a lot of good prices on Ebay but I was warned that 
many of them are "grey market", bought in other countries. I don't 
think it's illegal, but the manual often isn't in English, and the 
warranty only applies in whatever country it came from, Nikon USA 
won't touch it. I ended up spending a little more to get a camera 
with a US warranty. --Sarah
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Don't do it.

Kurt

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> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Josep L.
> Guallar-Esteve
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:16 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: [internetworkers] eBay shopping help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've found a Laptop on eBay [0], at a very interesting price. Now
> that I got
> the info to do the bank wire... I did some research on Google about the
> banking info and I found some information related to the payment method.
>
> It uses a payment method through WebMoney  [1]  I've never heard
> of it, but
> I've never shopped before on ebay anyway. It looks like this is a secure
> payment method . But, again, I don't know.
>
> Then, I found the payment method (same account) mentioned in
> several sites [2]
> - online gaming (StarCraft) on Russia [2a]
> - increasing your "russian manliness" [2b]
> - Scammers on Russian brides agencies [2c]
>
> They told me that they are based on Spain (of all places!) but
> their email
> address is from a free email provider that i never heard of
> [3a], when there
> are many and well-known free email services in Spain [3b]
>
> The cost of shipping is lower than expected. I won't complain
> about it. But
> I've checked the weight for the laptop in it's original box
> (Amazon) and that
> weight makes the shipping on both DHL[4a] and UPS [4b] is about
> $170. And
> it's a bulky thing (I expect it to be), so it will probably be a
> little more.
> But the price goes up for  only ~$100 from the selling price.
>
> I don't know. Maybe I'm too paranoid (I'm a sysadmin after all).
> Maybe this is
> a proper way of doing business. Or maybe this is too good pice and it's a
> scam.
>
> If you want to comment me on this by private email or through the list or
> both, great. I can provide the original emails if needed or any other
> information.
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Josep
>
>
> [0]
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3406415096
>
> [1]
> - WebMoney:
> http://www.wmtransfer.com/
> http://www.webmoney.ru/
>
> [2a]
> http://www.broodwar.com/
> http://www.wgtour.com/news.php?idN=707&datab=broodwar
> http://forum.starcraft.org.ru/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3412&FORUM_ID=43&;
CAT_ID=1&Forum_Title=%CD%EE%E2%EE%F1%F2%E8&Topic_Title=Rulez+Race+Wars
[2b]
http://www.good-penis.com/index.php (translation below)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//www.good-penis.com/
index.php&lp=ru_en
[2c]
http://www.antiscam.org/scammers/Elena_Loveland.shtml

[3a]
http://www.adios.net --> http://www.inbox.net/
[3b]
http://www.terra.es

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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve         Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
MaDuIxA PoWeR!

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