Blackberry Storm

[8Grand]

@ZEX350Z

There is a huge scam (IDK if it typically involves Nigerians or not) going on ebay right now involving the sale of cell phones. There is a huge market for used cell phones. The company’s that are selling used phones create false user accounts and bid up each others, and individuals, auctions to higher amounts so that their phones sell. Try and set pre-bidding requirements in your auction to make it so that people can’t bid with less than 10 feedback without contacting you prior to their bid (within the first sentance of the auction details). That way if you get someone with 5 feedback or even 0 feedback you can cancel that bid b/c you know they didn’t try and contact you; thus probably a scam. If they genuinely wanted the phone and had low feedback they would have contacted you prior or at the same time as the bid. I got ****ed so many times on ebay trying to selling phones…sometimes listing 2 or 3 times prior to the actual sale. Luckily ebay does reimburse for deadbeat buyers - but it is still frustrating and a waste of time.

Goodluck next time around. Search google, there is more on this in articles online.

Also, if your auction closes wayyyy higher than expected - probably a scam too.

I was getting spammed left and right by spammers on my gmail account a few months back. Someone bid on an auction and ironically had a similar name then mine(or they just created it it)… I kept toying around with them, sending them goatse images and such. Amusing to say the least.

i still cant stand the scroll ball on every other blackberry, i might check this due to the lack of one. And My Q was a POS till i updated the firmware. Usually takes a while to work the kinks out of these kind of phones.