Well, there was an auction on Ebay for an Ecotec turbo kit. The price was in the high 300's for the whole thing... We had our Christmas party last night, so I left in the middle of it to win the auction. I won the kit at 9:16 for a price of $730. This morning, this alert was in my Ebay inbox:

The following is a notice from eBay Trust & Safety regarding:

Item Number -

Item Title - Ecotec Turbo Kit (Cavalier or Sunfire)

Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more of this seller's items. We recently removed this seller's active listings and suspended the seller's trading privileges. Due to privacy concerns we cannot share further details about this seller.

If the seller asks you to complete this transaction outside of eBay, we strongly recommend that you do not proceed with the transaction. Transactions for items listed on eBay but then completed off of the eBay platform are not covered by buyer protection programs offered by eBay and can be highly indicative of fraud. For more information on Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay, copy and past the following Help Page link into your browser: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html.

If you have already paid for this item but have not received it, you should take all possible steps to receive reimbursement.

1. Stop payment with your bank if you paid by check.
2. Contact the Security Department of your credit card company to file a chargeback if you paid via credit card.
3. If you paid via Western Union or MoneyGram, contact the company directly (Western Union 800-325-6000 or MoneyGram 800-926-9400).
4. If you paid with PayPal, you may be eligible for up to $1,000 USD coverage at no cost. To file a claim with PayPal, login to your PayPal account and copy and paste the following link into your web browser: /csg/p?www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/protections-buyer-outside. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the File a Claim link. PayPal claims must be filed within 45 days of the close of the listing. It may take at least 30 days to complete the investigation and resolve the dispute.
5. If you did not pay with PayPal and would like to file a claim with eBay, please initiate the Item Not Received Process online directly from the Security and Resolution Center at the bottom of the eBay.com page.
6. eBay claims must be filed within 60 days of the end of the listing.

Our goal is to ensure that your eBay experience is safe so that you can buy confidently. It is rare that something goes wrong with a transaction on eBay. However, in the event it does, we would like to provide as much assistance as possible to help resolve the issue.

Please do not respond to this email, as your reply will not be received.

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This sucks...

Well that just sucks huh



Blew it up

lol i bid on it too and i got that message this morning

That does suck...


Have someone custom make you a kit...

I know a company who loves to make one off kits.. lol




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RHD CavFire wrote:Well, there was an auction on Ebay for an Ecotec turbo kit. The price was in the high 300's for the whole thing... We had our Christmas party last night, so I left in the middle of it to win the auction. I won the kit at 9:16 for a price of $730. This morning, this alert was in my Ebay inbox:

The following is a notice from eBay Trust & Safety regarding:

Item Number -

Item Title - Ecotec Turbo Kit (Cavalier or Sunfire)

Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more of this seller's items. We recently removed this seller's active listings and suspended the seller's trading privileges. Due to privacy concerns we cannot share further details about this seller.

If the seller asks you to complete this transaction outside of eBay, we strongly recommend that you do not proceed with the transaction. Transactions for items listed on eBay but then completed off of the eBay platform are not covered by buyer protection programs offered by eBay and can be highly indicative of fraud. For more information on Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay, copy and past the following Help Page link into your browser: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html.

If you have already paid for this item but have not received it, you should take all possible steps to receive reimbursement.

1. Stop payment with your bank if you paid by check.
2. Contact the Security Department of your credit card company to file a chargeback if you paid via credit card.
3. If you paid via Western Union or MoneyGram, contact the company directly (Western Union 800-325-6000 or MoneyGram 800-926-9400).
4. If you paid with PayPal, you may be eligible for up to $1,000 USD coverage at no cost. To file a claim with PayPal, login to your PayPal account and copy and paste the following link into your web browser: /csg/p?www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/protections-buyer-outside. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the File a Claim link. PayPal claims must be filed within 45 days of the close of the listing. It may take at least 30 days to complete the investigation and resolve the dispute.
5. If you did not pay with PayPal and would like to file a claim with eBay, please initiate the Item Not Received Process online directly from the Security and Resolution Center at the bottom of the eBay.com page.
6. eBay claims must be filed within 60 days of the end of the listing.

Our goal is to ensure that your eBay experience is safe so that you can buy confidently. It is rare that something goes wrong with a transaction on eBay. However, in the event it does, we would like to provide as much assistance as possible to help resolve the issue.

Please do not respond to this email, as your reply will not be received.

Regards,

Customer Support (Trust and Safety Department)
eBay Inc

This sucks...

So it was you who out bided me last night. Dang!!!!!!!
This was Josh Solomon's old turbo kit. The first ever Street Ecotec turbo kit. I emailed the guy and asked him fir his buy it now price. He said $1100. He would not tell me how he got the kit (I know how he got it, but wanted to see what he would say).



FU Tuning

I wrote this guy to. That kit has been on E-bay 4 or 5 times and most of the bids are usually kept private. Seems fishy to me

John Higgins wrote:

So it was you who out bided me last night. Dang!!!!!!!
This was Josh Solomon's old turbo kit. The first ever Street Ecotec turbo kit. I emailed the guy and asked him fir his buy it now price. He said $1100. He would not tell me how he got the kit (I know how he got it, but wanted to see what he would say).

Yeah, that was me... lol

How did this person get this kit?

RHD CavFire wrote:

John Higgins wrote:

So it was you who out bided me last night. Dang!!!!!!!
This was Josh Solomon's old turbo kit. The first ever Street Ecotec turbo kit. I emailed the guy and asked him fir his buy it now price. He said $1100. He would not tell me how he got the kit (I know how he got it, but wanted to see what he would say).

Yeah, that was me... lol

How did this person get this kit?

Josh Solomon sold the kit on ebay couple years back. This was the guy who bought it. Remember how he listed that the intercooler was messed up. He states it was shipped that way. Well that was incorrect. That intercooler and piping sat in my garage for a few months before it was sold. If left my garage and was shipped nothing was wrong with it. The guy made a big fuss over it. He claimed everything was not there to put the kit on his car, and the shop charged him for holding his car while they could not install the kit. That kit went 13.7 at 113mph on a stock ecotec with stock injectors. Josh regrets getting rid of it to this day.



FU Tuning

This has Maximum Boost written allll over it




I was a retard, and now I'm permanently banned.

Spotabee Racing (The Fake Z24) wrote:This has Maximum Boost written allll over it

It is not.



FU Tuning

didnt travis mcnulty end up with joshs old kit which then a guy off the org with a red cavy bought it from mcnulty and the guy just got done rebuilding a motor



R.I.P. Brian Klocke, you will never be forgotten

Boosted2point4 wrote:didnt travis mcnulty end up with joshs old kit which then a guy off the org with a red cavy bought it from mcnulty and the guy just got done rebuilding a motor

no

travis bought it off a guy in Texas because the guy in texas told Josh he was shafting him, travis got the kit and blew his motor... I ended up getting everything but the intercooler and maniold and pipes..

now the only thing on the car left of his kit is the WG...

so I have most of the parts right now of josh's original kit...



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QBE (73H 800573D 0N3) wrote:

Boosted2point4 wrote:didnt travis mcnulty end up with joshs old kit which then a guy off the org with a red cavy bought it from mcnulty and the guy just got done rebuilding a motor

no

travis bought it off a guy in Texas because the guy in texas told Josh he was shafting him, travis got the kit and blew his motor... I ended up getting everything but the intercooler and maniold and pipes..

now the only thing on the car left of his kit is the WG...

so I have most of the parts right now of josh's original kit...

sorry yeah what John said.. the kid said stuff was damaged in shipping and it was not...


Travis showed me this auction a month or 2 ago and we laughed and emailed him about it but never got responses...



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I'm curious, as this is a scam I've heard about recently....Can you guys check the headers on those emails and see if they actually came from eBay?

Here's the story I've heard about these scams...

Someone lists an item for sale on ebay, and waits till the auction completes. Then they go through the list of bidders and send out an email similar to that "from eBay" to "cancel" the auction. After that, they start sending emails to the bidders saying "my account was hacked, but I really have <insert item name here> and I'd still like to sell it to you" (to the winning bidder) and "my account was hacked, but I really have <insert item name here> and the original winner backed out because of the eBay warning email". Then they proceed to collect the bid amounts from MULTIPLE suckers and disappear. Amazes me that people can be that dumb, but apparently this has been successful somewhere out there.

Just curious...not saying that's what's going on here but it sounded strangely familiar.






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Ok i also got the same email as well. The email is from ended@ebay.com. It would appear this email is from ebay.



FU Tuning

yea i get those damn e-maisl all the time. dont know why.

JimmyZ wrote:I'm curious, as this is a scam I've heard about recently....Can you guys check the headers on those emails and see if they actually came from eBay?

Here's the story I've heard about these scams...

Someone lists an item for sale on ebay, and waits till the auction completes. Then they go through the list of bidders and send out an email similar to that "from eBay" to "cancel" the auction. After that, they start sending emails to the bidders saying "my account was hacked, but I really have and I'd still like to sell it to you" (to the winning bidder) and "my account was hacked, but I really have and the original winner backed out because of the eBay warning email". Then they proceed to collect the bid amounts from MULTIPLE suckers and disappear. Amazes me that people can be that dumb, but apparently this has been successful somewhere out there.

Just curious...not saying that's what's going on here but it sounded strangely familiar.

If that is the case, this probably isn't one example because it was an alert through my Ebay account, not an email through my Yahoo email... Unless people can send alerts to each other?

That and the guy has not tried to contact me...

ive been getting alot of emails from people on ebay saying im not sending them their product they won from me

and i havent sold anything in a long time , and the item usualy didnt meet reserve either


and when i look at the item # its not even a account near the same name as mine , i i copy and paste the item # in ebays search , i never open a supplied link

You know, someone was selling one of our Maximum Boost Turbo Kits on there a few weeks ago for $600. I e-mailed him and made him remove the listing...I believe that was also a scam too. I had never sold a kit to anyone with his name...

You really have to watch out.




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1-888-TURBO-31
sales@maximumboost.net

TAX ID: 45-8013458577-3

John Higgins wrote:Ok i also got the same email as well. The email is from ended@ebay.com. It would appear this email is from ebay.

You can't trust the return addresses...I'm not familar enough with the technology to recount the exact terminology, but the clever hack can make the fraudulent email 'appear' to have a bonafide business's addy.

ANYTHING you get in email that you didn't specifically ask for is suspect...always verify via a known secure channel that what you have received is genuine before you act or provide information. It's all part of 'phishing' for suckers and identity thefts.



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