eBay Motors Spam Auctions

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When I browse eBay motors, I always see these really rare cars posted with a BIN of $6000 or less (these are cars that would normally go for over $50,000). Since Wickedfire has a lot of out-of-the-box technique guys running around, I was wondering how you guys benefit from this crap? Is it just to piss off people? With the buyer protection program eBay has, I doubt you can scam people out of there money. And most of the time these auctions don't redirect or have any affiliate links in them, just content relative to the car thats for sale. And I know its a fake auction - you just get that feeling.

So what do you gain from doing this? I'm not asking for you to divulge your deepest darkest secrets, just asking why/how does this do anything positive towards making some bank?
 


A lot of "dealerships" may post a low ass bid just to get leads, claim the car was already sold...
 
Please post a few sample URLS of some of the "auctions" you are talking about, and it would be easier to tell you what they are shopping out.
 
Im pretty sure its a version of the nigerian scam lol. I was looking to buy an STI and this guy had an 06 with 1200 miles on ebay for $6000 buy it now. I asked him what the fuck was wrong with the car and he goes through this story that he is overseas and he cant drive a left hand car or some shit and he would put it on a boat and send it to me and thats why he had to get rid of it so cheap or some shit. I bet some idiots fall for it tho
 
I don't think there all phished. A week back i saw a featured listing in the Jaguar section for the new style Jag for $100k, the listing said something like "Wouldn't you love to be able to afford a car like this? Just email me at blah@blah.com and my autoresponder will tell you how" i emailed it and was just some information about a lottery website and affiliate links etc. The listing had well over 4k views, and featured listings don't cost that much.
 
Hmm, sounds interesting. I may try some site promotion like that, or maybe throw an affiliate link in it. However eBay is getting better at detecting these scam auctions. I see them 1 minute, and the next they are gone. Not always the case, but still.
 
A-D said:
I don't think there all phished. A week back i saw a featured listing in the Jaguar section for the new style Jag for $100k, the listing said something like "Wouldn't you love to be able to afford a car like this? Just email me at blah@blah.com and my autoresponder will tell you how" i emailed it and was just some information about a lottery website and affiliate links etc. The listing had well over 4k views, and featured listings don't cost that much.
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Yeah, quality conversions too! lol. Someone wants a car and you send them an email about anything but cars will convert like absolute shit.

I think the real money is selling the email addys to spammers.
 
ScottDaMan said:
Yeah, quality conversions too! lol. Someone wants a car and you send them an email about anything but cars will convert like absolute shit.

I think the real money is selling the email addys to spammers.
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Maybe but everyone looking at expensive cars on ebay i doubt can afford them and most are just looking at hot new cars. Probably doesnt convert great in that example anyway, but lots of ways the same could be used.
 
A-D said:
Maybe but everyone looking at expensive cars on ebay i doubt can afford them and most are just looking at hot new cars. Probably doesnt convert great in that example anyway, but lots of ways the same could be used.
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lots of ways it could be used to use a lot of your time and not make much money.
 
I bet if you could pull a little bank by putting up an iphone auction leading to a zip submit page. I bet it would convert well since it was so targetted.
 
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