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I'm pretty certain its a stolen picture- and the seller's payment instructions send up a red flag to me.

A lot of red flags here. The use of an image with the payment descriptions...which appear to soliciting an off line purchase...which of course would be unprotected by ebay.

I think you might be right Eric,

The wording is suspect, but the seller has over 4000 sales with 100% positive feedback. If you look at the sellers other items, there is over 7 pages of items, all listed at $88.88 with the same time left, and all of them (at least the half dozen or so I opened) have the same "Only buy it now" wording. Looking at the sellers past sales, they all look legit.

I think it is a hijacked user ID. I would stay clear.

Actually, the person has never sold a single thing before. All their feedback is as a buyer...now all of a sudden they're selling a wide variety of things for each for $1700?

All of his auctions have just been cancelled. His attempted fraud was too obvious.

It isn't the first time either- he had a lot of machines on in the past, all rather underpriced for their rarity and with the same request for an offline deal.

the sellers auctions have been removed. does anyone remember the ebay name? it would be good to know to avoid in the future.

From my browsers history: michelektpm