Dont get conned. The following is sound advice for buyers and sellers from personal experience and what I have seen recently on eBay. For the Buyers 1. Read all the advert as a BOX usually means just the...
In recent weeks especially with regard to high value Hi-Fi equipment I have seen many items that have been listed as "Post to UK only" receive last minute bids from outside the UK. At best this can mean the...
Beware of sellers with 1 day listings and who ask to be emailed directly instead of through eBay. These are often fraudsters who have stolen somebody's details and pretend to sell high value items like...
Whilst eBay allow email addresses to appear in listing descriptions it easy for those who take over eBay accounts to run their scams. Any listing, no matter how long it is running for, with an email address...
There are several scams which appear regularly on eBay and appear to come from Chinese based sellers. The items are always Buy it Now listings and the seller usually lists 8-10 items at the same time. Often...
You may find you get an email that appears to come from Paypal which tells you that your account has been restricted to a low financial figure. Or it might tell you that they need to update the records they...
SME have produced just a few types of tonearm over the years and the reason is simple. SME tonearms are so good that unlike many other HiFi manufacturers SME did not find it necessary to produce updates at...
This is not meant to be a definitive guide to the Garrard 301 but is intended to help relative novices to understand the main differences between the various versions and to introduce a few pointers on what to...
QUAD II amplifiers are one of the most popular items bought on eBay. Here are a few pointers that might be useful. Buyers tend to favour amplifiers with very close serial numbers but this is not really...
There is a growing method of account theft by scammers who want to use YOUR account to steal money from eBay buyers. They simply place a 'harvesting' listing for a valuable and attractive item and the only...