Originally Posted by elainecooper
Not only do they say they are located in London and shipping from Canada but in the description they talk about celebrating the Country's Independance Day with friends and family and would not be shipping until after the 5th. This has signs of trouble all over it! But I did ask them all the above questions so we'll see.
In searching it out some they have 100 of this item for sale, have sold 7 since July 5th and auction is for 5 days.
What one can do is to buy it so you can than pull sellers contact info and attempt to make contact by phone or at least check to see what country they are registered under.
They have this long tirade about offering books, fibers, arts and more yet this EQ is the only item listed.
My having been on ebay since they opened there doors in 1995 (almost 16 years) this has enough red flags for us to be cautious.
If enough folks made the purchase and than pulled sellers contact info they could file with eBay almost immediately stating why they are unwilling to pay for it which will immediatelys end an ALERT flag to eBay to investigate and if found legit follow through with paying for the item.
It's such a little amount and even though I have EQ7 and my wanting to keep eBay safe I'm seriously considering making the purchase to pull sellers user info and check them out. If found legit than give it away to a friend for Christmas or there birthday or just because.
At least that way we'd know if they are legit.
If I'm not mistaken both Canada and U.S. recognize Independence day or recognition is made by Canada. We have many borders in the U.S. within reach of Canada and U.S. and some of us are from Canada originally with our grandparents and/or parents having transplanted to the U.S. I'm second generation U.S. and grew up about 18 miles from the Canadian border in Maine.
They may be legit but there also are enough red flags to warrant there being checked out.
Or if one does not want to go through all of the above mentioned one can click "report item" to the right of the auction and ask ebay to check it out.