Quote Originally Posted by jolyonjenkins View Post
Just a warning - there is a scammer who keeps listing a Boxford machine on ebay at a low starting bid price. He asks you to email him for the buy it now price. He replies by email and gives you a low price and directs you to a site that looks like ebay but is not. There is a link on this page to a payment page for a bank account in Spain. He is quite plausible, but will not let you view the machine (because it does not exist). (He is also listing sewing machines, folding bicycles and other things but I mention the CNC machine because people here might be tempted.) He uses multiple email addresses and is probably using hacked Ebay accounts. I keep reporting him to Ebay but they are slow to take action.
Waste of time reporting to ebay, as you say it takes ages for scam listings to be removed and, soon as they take one down another 2 pop-up to replace it. Often the give away is contact information (email address) in item description, or in a picture to avoid emails going via ebay.
If you do spot a potential bargain on ebay, there is no way of knowing if it's genuine or not.