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well, for those who weren't watching the auction, the final bid was $1188US and the reserve was not met.

And for those making bids..good luck with this "final" bid...
i only wish I had more cash.

Ok, so I don't know who won the item. But after the bidding was up I got a pretty legit email saying that the first bidder had backed out and I was the second bidder...

I sent a response to the sender, and got a second email which looked a little fishy. The seller was no longer in kingston, he was in the UK, and he also changed his name from matt to mark...being computer savvy, I did a little research and learned this:

some site Wrote:There is an ongoing scam involving Second Chance
Offers that eBay has been unable to put an end to. The scam artist
sends an email to under
bidders on expensive items. They say that they are the seller and use eBay's
Mail forwarding system to send emails that look like Second Chance Offers.
They try to get the under bidder to wire transfer payment to a foreign
account (the email even makes it look like eBay wants the item to be paid
for by wire transfer)."




Yes folks, this is for real. I have received two of these in the
past 3 weeks. One was for a large collection of early US
Congressional documents and reports; the other was for an early
edition of the Jesuit Letters. Fortunately, I was able to contact the
sellers directly and inquire whether the offers were real. Upon
learning that their items were being offered in a scam, both dealers
went ballistic (to put it mildly). I notified eBay, who eventually
got around to replying that these were not authentic second-chance
offers.

This scam appears to target eBay items that ended with bids above
$500, but on which the reserve was not met. The emails look quite
authentic, and inexperienced bidders can easily be misled. You can
imagine who is going to be blamed when some bidder thinks they're
getting a real bargain, and then doesn't receive the item.... the
original seller, of course, although they never knew about the scam.

Just another day in eBay-land......

shame, I really want that guitar, but now I dont even think there is a guitar for sale...

That message makes it look as if there *was* a guitar for sale and this scam is taking advantage of the fact that the reserve on it wasn't met. Have you contacted the seller directly, as opposed to through the email that contacted you?

I have sent an email, no response yet.
I agree that there probably was a guitar...it didnt meet the reserve though, and some one else (other than the original seller) is trying to pull a fast one on the bidders.

people suck sometimes.