Quite right to give the warning Ian. I tried to help a Dutch friend who paid over £2000 for Triumph parts and Google Earth took me to a flock of sheep in a field on Shetland Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Hi Ian

Many thanks for your reminder. I saw he had 1169 feedback on ebay.Looks he is ok. His ebay account is wattyb46.
Any one here had experience with him ?

Regards
Rofiq

email (option): rofiqmgl@yahoo.com

SCAM!!!SCAM!!!SCAM!!!SCAM!!!

no user ID of that name found on seller search,which means he has had his account cancelled.

I do hope you have not sent him any money????????????

Like Ian and Ron say, Shetland is a scammers paradise, not the folk there, just the scammers use it as no one can get there in a hurry.

Hi Ian, Ron, Ken

Many thanks for your input. I wiil not continue to proceed. Hope other members at this group can learn from my case. I am soo lucky do not lost my money. I am very happy to be a member of this group.You (all) are very friendly and helpfull.

Thanks a lot.

Rofiq

email (option): rofiqmgl@yahoo.com

what was the item?

He does seem to exist, although I'm no expert in spotting a highjacked account.

The price of £150 for a doll's head box seems quite cheap, although it did have a broken lug....No other bidders at all seems a bit odd though.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Norton-16H-Gearbox-/162403632753?nma=true&si=Rqtwt7NZ7f8XuUfEVYLeFLdwl%252BY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Ebay say no account of that name this am.

Advanced search for seller comes up with

wattyb46 (
Feedback score of
1169Red star icon for Feedback score between 1,000 to 4,999)
14 years 5 months Shetland,United Kingdom

but lots of simlar seller names are shown from the northern reaches intersting all from the same start date or near.

watty46 (
Feedback score of
187Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
14 years 9 months Glasgow (City of),United Kingdom
Member ID
watty06 (
Feedback score of
33Yellow star icon for Feedback score between 10 to 49)
11 years 2 months Canada
Member ID
watty0_6 (
Feedback score of
1547Red star icon for Feedback score between 1,000 to 4,999)
13 years 2 months Derbyshire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty147 (
Feedback score of
156Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
14 years 2 months Cumbria,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty247 (
Feedback score of
164Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
13 years 6 months Edinburgh (City of),United Kingdom
Member ID
watty345 (
Feedback score of
16Yellow star icon for Feedback score between 10 to 49)
13 years 9 months West Yorkshire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty41 (
Feedback score of
147Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
15 years 0 months United States
Member ID
watty49 (
Feedback score of
68Blue star icon for Feedback score between 50 to 99)
13 years 6 months Worcestershire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty146 (
Feedback score of
16Yellow star icon for Feedback score between 10 to 49)
10 years 9 months Germany
Member ID
watty216 (
Feedback score of
248Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
13 years 0 months Hertfordshire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty2486 (
Feedback score of
7 )
6 years 9 months Australia
Member ID
watty26 (
Feedback score of
178Teal star icon for Feedback score between 100 to 499)
13 years 7 months West Yorkshire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty34 (
Feedback score of
26Yellow star icon for Feedback score between 10 to 49)
13 years 9 months Lancashire,United Kingdom
Member ID
watty45 (
Feedback score of
45Yellow star icon for Feedback score between 10 to 49)
16 years 0 months United States

Have you had any personal contact and address, but not a mobile number and request to be paid by other than paypal?

An honest seller will understand if you insist on paypal.

As for the gearbox, if its too good to be true,then it isn't

Some clever buggers out there when it comes to scamming on the bay.

Hi Ken

The item was Norton 16H engine as spare.

Regards
Rofiq.

email (option): rofiqmgl@yahoo.com

I would establish actual contact with the seller,ask for an address you can verify, preferably a land line phone number and pay,when you are sure by Paypal; that way your money is safe.

If you go into adavnced search on ebay, that's extreme top right in small letters on your 'my ebay page' you can get seller address, phone number from ebay records; they also give the seller your details and let them know you asked.

You also need a decent courier; I don't know where you are Rofiq, but in case you don't realise, the Shetlands are a long way from anywhere, nearer to Norway than anywhere else.
You aren't likely to find any one from here within many many miles of there, and a lot of water between.

Some folk like the place, I think its a desolate windy cold wet treeless hole