I was conned into paying $1645. for a set of wheels on Ebay about two months ago. I'm still hoping to get the upperhand on this. The scam appeared to be a fraudulent seller that was somehow posing as a well-established Ebay seller. The item # was 1873310898.
Now, I have found the same scam being repeated in item number 2401155579, and several others listed by "southern-exchange".
Ebay has been essentially non-responsive, so far.
Don't bid with confidence on these items!

 

That first ebay auction closed (Nov 22) with No Bidders. Did you buy them outside of the auction? The pictures from the "sourthern-exchange" auctions do look like the same location.

 

My experience of E bay, is that while things are going ok, its fine, but trying to contact a human being behind the FAQ,s is not possible, don't know what the problem was with your wheels, but when ive had anything like this, and i have on a couple of occasions over the years, trade bad cars off to a dealer, lets face it they usually deserve it right? sell the wheels on..

 

I don't believe the second auction you cited is also a scam. I think the scammer stole the pictures and text from "southern-exchange".

The clues that the first auction is a scam are that all the feedback the seller has is for selling trading cards. It seems suspect that someone who sells trading cards would branch out into porsche wheels. Also, the section of text where he encourages the "buy it now" feature is in very poor English. The link he provides to buy-it-now also is a mailto: link, not a link to buy it now. So if you emailed him, you not only didn't transact you business through eBay, but you may have violated their terms of service by going outside of their system to transact the sale.

However, you could start by trying to track the guy down through his email address. apartment107.com is owned by livesockets.com and you might be able to see if you can turn up an IP address or other info. I assume, according to the instructions, that you wired the money to his account. For whatever it's worth, I am NOT a lawyer, but that would sound like wire fraud to me. I believe that's a federal offence. You may be able to track him down through his account number.

 

Input on the 964 and 993 forums say that Jamie at Southern Exchange is reputable to do business with. On the 993 forum, they suggest that there are several tell tale signs why, as Greg mentioned above, the pictures/words may have been stolen. And some give aways in the text as to why one should steer clear of that sellers items.

 

A lot of eBay user ID have been hacked, uasully with those has a lot of feed back, I was trying to buy a high end laptop and did see a bunch of those scam