Weird Mystery Ebay Listing

[LarryInMichigan]

ebay link

What do you suppose that the lister of this trying to accomplish?

Larry

[Contempra]

In my opinion it's all nonsense ..For the phone plug, it looks like an electric stove or clothes dryer plug . Sometimes I see crap like empty Coka-cola bottle and even a piece of bread !) for sale as much on Marketplace (Facebook) as on Ebay ... The moderators of these two sites are not doing their job.

[LarryInMichigan]

This listing has reappeared a few times.  The plug is probably a phone plug of a style with which I am not familiar.  The listing seems to be some sort of idiotic scam. 

Larry

[Contempra]

This listing has reappeared a few times.  The plug is probably a phone plug of a style with which I am not familiar.  The listing seems to be some sort of idiotic scam. 

Larry

That's what I think too..

[paul-f]

The plug looks like a Swedish plug discussed in this topic.

My LM Ericsson "Ericofon" Cobra Telephone
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=22783.msg229144#msg229144

[LarryInMichigan]

That makes sense.  I was so preoccupied by the weirdness of the listing that I failed to notice the Swedish dial numbering.  Whoever created the listing cut the pictures out of images of a Swedish phone.

Larry

[Witty]

The item looks legit to me but the scam I see with this listing is the shipping fee. It shows $126 to Larry's location, and $105 to my location when I open it.
Way more than it should be.

[LarryInMichigan]

Look at the name of the "seller" and the location, also the total lack of feedback.  I seriously doubt that you would receive the phone if you paid $115.

Larry

[paul-f]

From the eBay About page.

[Witty]

Very true.
I'm wondering if the fees are based on it being shipped from Europe somewhere. It's not clear what the location is.

Edit. Ok I see it's Sweden and no transactions the past year.

[paul-f]

Ok I see it's Sweden

But the listing states it's in the US.

Perhaps it's a scammer testing a pirated dormant account.

[LarryInMichigan]

I seriously doubt that this phone is actually being sold.  If someone wants a white Ericsson Dialog, they can find one in North America for much less.  I actually have a rose beige Dialog connected and sitting on my desk at this moment.

Larry

[Witty]

Very good point. You would think Ebay would pick up on that.

[RDPipes]

ebay link

What do you suppose that the lister of this trying to accomplish?

Larry

To sell an Old Phone (to him) and having poor Photoshop skills, LOL!

[TelePlay]

But the listing states it's in the US.

But what is "ur dad" and "ur potato"? I clicked the links and got a map of North America with no location pins.