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Originally Posted by 77T
Shifting gears, how would a typical buyer know which auction was bogus?
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While your Rolex buyer is not typical per se, anyone is liable to fall victim to a scam if they're not aware of scams or looking for scams. It happens here, and it happens on eBay.
At last count there were 27 bids up to $7200 on the bogus Batman auction listed above.
At least some of these people believe they're trying to buy BLNR for less than the market price. They see a real watch, they see decent feed-back (although not recent) and they mistakenly believe they're actually involved in a real auction.
If you are not wary, suspicious, or a devotee of abstract thinking, it may never occur to you to look for the tell-tale signs of fraud . . .
And the Batman is gone for now.