419eater

6 thoughts on “419eater”

1. eBay selling stations

   Not sure about the rest of the country, but I’ve seen a bunch of eBay sell stores pop up around Minneapolis. At first, I thought it was a waste of time — a storefront service for people that were either too lazy or too technically incompetent to list their own items for auction online.

   But now here’s a good reason to use those storefronts. Wish I had an example (url) to provide. Has anyone else used these places?

2. ebay stores!

   I have not used them, though they are popping up in Utah as well. I list my own items on ebay, just so that I get all the profit. If I were in a big hurry to move and had plenty of things to ebay, I’d try it. I don’t know what the fees are there, but around here, they make 50% of the profit, then send you a check for the other 50%.

   I must say, that listing items on ebay is extremely simple. They guide you through the whole process one step at a time. Once you’ve done it a couple times, it only takes a couple minutes to list an item. If you’ve never done it before, the critical thing is to have your pictures already on your hard drive before you start listing. A picture is not required, but as a buyer, I won’t even look at the auction without a picture.

   Anyway, when you get to that part of the listing, their program actually pulls up your picture program and all you have to do is click on which picture you need for the listing and there it is!

   I’ve made hundreds of dollars selling stuff on ebay and have a huge pile more to sell once I get my pictures done!

   Sorry this is so off topic from the scambaiting. That was pretty intriguing!–

   Christy

   1. scambaiting and offtopicness

      Sorry this is so off topic from the scambaiting. That was pretty intriguing!

      I think the most interesting discussions here are the ones that go wildly offtopic, actually…

      As far as eBay sellers go, I think Christy’s dead-on. If you’re willing to take the time to list your own stuff, and are patient, you can make a good deal of money in the world’s largest garage sale. However, if you’re in a real hurry, it probably wouldn’t hurt to just “unload” on a seller to get rid of stuff for you.

      I’m still a novice at eBay. Christy sells stuff… I just buy things. Oooh, shiny! 🙂

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      Matthew P. Barnson

3. As a 419eater member, I’m so

   As a 419eater member, I’m so glad to see us all over the web!! There is nothing more satisfying about wasting the time a scammer could be spending fleecing a real victim. But I have to iterate, we do not condone scamming money from the scammers. It is not only illegal, but unsafe!! Other than that, happy scambaiting!!!!

   1. Right. My original post…

      Right. My original post mentioned scamming “money” from the scammers. What I should have said is “waste their money”. Have them do things like rent expensive hotel rooms for you which you’ll never show up to use. Spend postage sending you things. That kind of stuff. Not something where they actually give you money, but find ways to get them to spend money for no reward.

      It’s a very entertaining site, though the stories of some of the members — like the one girl who has been leading on a scammer for months and routinely has “phone sex” with him to keep him engaged — are sometimes… well, some have a serious “yick!” factor to them 😉

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      Matthew P. Barnson

4. There’s some good

   There’s some good scambaiting at Frank Rizzo and the 419 Zeros that shows just how stupid/desperate these scammers really are. An experiment was done using a nonsense generator to compose correspondence with them, and it sometimes carried on for months before the scammer finally gave up!

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