Originally Posted By Alistair
Originally Posted By Eric Gill Sans
Well selling my Rolex on EBay was a bit of a disaster even though I was prepared to rebuff lots of scammers

Today was the last day and I received a high bid this morning from a username with no history ie a big fat (0) after his/her name and when I looked the account had just been set up

I thought I had put controls on who could bid which is usually no one with less than 5 feedback

So I cancelled the bid with the reason 'no history'

Then a second bid came in after that to the same amount £2,700 from another brand new account

So I cancelled that as well

Then I get a message from the next highest bidder who was now the highest bidder at £2,500 saying he suspected I was 'bidding up' to get the price raised and said if won it could I please cancel his order

I replied that I would and he did end up winning it at £2,500

So I messaged him after he had won it asking if I should cancel his order

He replied yes but if I wanted to sell at £2,100 he'd be interested

I politely thanked him for the offer but cancelled the order

So it looks like I might have to keep the Explorer 2 after all

Might investigate getting a dial and hand replacement as its the tritium model with no lume

Ah well

Watch this space


Eric - thats a standard scam. Cause the buyer to lose trust in the system and then underbid. I would bet that if you asked eBay to look into the system the accounts all belong to the same person. They can then suspend the main account. They will not confirm this to you but it does happen in the background.


Yes very probably

Anyway I've still got the watch - it doesn't owe me anything - I wont attempt to sell it on Ebay again - I know some who haven't had any trouble but I'm going to get it serviced and its case refurbished or take it into a Rolex dealer and see what they will offer against a New 2016 Explorer 1 or The new 2016 Air-king


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