[hunterking]

Originally Posted by jdunford

As for the feedback, he could just have two accounts and bought from himself 100 times just to get his reputation up to 100... and keeps it private so you can't tell. The 1 negative could be from a legitimate transaction (i.e. the last time he tried this scam) or he could've done it on purpose so he has a "more realistic" 99% feedback rather than 100%.

I realize that would cause him to pay ebay fees 100 times, but if these are $2 worth of chips being sold for > $100, it might be worth it, even for a 1-time scam (and more likely 2nd time, given the negative feedback).

This is just an idea. It could be the real thing, but... I'm suspicious.

yeah, i'm just playing devil's advocate... for what it's worth, his account was created on feb. 18, 2006 and has 126 seperate positive feedbacks, 101 of them from unique users, and 1 negative in the past 6 months. it seems like a lot of work to generate positive feedback from 101 different accounts just to make $200. the seller also has another identical listing ending about 3 days after the 1st one.

hk