I currently have a couple of kites for sale and got the same text this morning.

yeah the kite i had listed i sold over a month ago

The the fact that there's an italian language version of the site is a bit curious, unless run by italians.

Site's hosted in US for what it's worth, not Indo anyway.

Also it says
© Copyright 2014 by Bit4Kite. All Rights reserved.

at the bottom. Bid or Bit? Typo? Dodgy anyway.

Ta seabreezers i got the message too
wont be risking that one

Do you think limiting our contact details to members when using the classifiedswould help reduce this???

Interesting - looks like they are copying all of the adverts on seabreeze and posting them on their site.

They put up the right mobile phone contact details, but I wonder if they are aiming for some type of man-in-the-middle scam for online contact.

Definitely a scam.

kiteboy dave said...

lukekiter said...
Here's another too good to be true deal, im quite sure from indo.
http://dosportshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=97

Have reported to their web host. They are very good, shut them down straight away. I guarantee this site will be down by tomorrow.

Down now

gcdave said...

suniboy21 said...
Do you think limiting our contact details to members when using the classifiedswould help reduce this???

I dunno...i like getting those txt saying 'you've won $1,000,000!', and plz reply to a +41 number

Yes!

Our numbers /emails should be hidden , similar to gumtree but must login to see details.

Looks like they are putting buyers in contact with sellers. I don't see what the scam would involve.

Hmm the site is back up it seems...

sunseeker said...
Looks like they are putting buyers in contact with sellers. I don't see what the scam would involve.

I can think of 2 [}:)]

1) hold cash whilst "in transit" between the buyer and seller for a short while at cash rates and pocket the interest (actually that's a key part of the PayPal and interbank funds transfer model too)

2) man in the middle on the buyer and seller online conversations (does not work of phone contacts as the real numbers were shown). Show the buyer higher prices and seller lower prices. If a deal is reached pocket the difference in addition to earning interest on the lot as per number 1

GalahOnTheBay said...
Hmm the site is back up it seems...

sunseeker said...
Looks like they are putting buyers in contact with sellers. I don't see what the scam would involve.

I can think of 2 [}:)]

1) hold cash whilst "in transit" between the buyer and seller for a short while at cash rates and pocket the interest (actually that's a key part of the PayPal and interbank funds transfer model too)

2) man in the middle on the buyer and seller online conversations (does not work of phone contacts as the real numbers were shown). Show the buyer higher prices and seller lower prices. If a deal is reached pocket the difference in addition to earning interest on the lot as per number 1

Are you serious?
You guys do realise the transaction will be between the buyer and the seller.

Hey Galah and others with better skillz than me.

If you do this search
www.google.com.au/search?q=bid4kite+kiteforum&aq=f&oq=bid4kite+kiteforum&aqs=chrome.0.57j0.24519j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=bid4kite+legit&oq=bid4kite+legit&gs_l=serp.3...20522.21053.0.21773.5.5.0.0.0.0.204.974.0j4j1.5.0...0.0...1c.1.9.psy-ab.1JkhDgHYdH0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45373924,d.aGc&fp=78c2367c9608c9f6&biw=1920&bih=912

ie "bid4kite legit" you can see what appears to me to be cached versions of ads on freelancer type websites, ie where they are trying to get indians to make their site for five bucks.

I don't have the leet skillz to access these actual ads or cached copies of them. But if you look at some of the text, in particular this one seems pretty sus to me. This is the creators of bid4kite talking...

"www.bid4kite.com/demo Before going online we need to fix some issues: .... Any legit bids please put the line "Not spam, I understand english" in your p.."

Now "any legit bids" sounds dodgy as hell to me. [}:)]

also

www.bid4kite.com/demo Before going online we need to fix some issues: .... work franchisee .100% Legitimate, Genuine & Scam Free Online Copy/Paste Jobs

Sounds dodgy, but I guess that's them recruiting for indians to do the copy/paste from seabreeze.

GalahOnTheBay said...

Hmm the site is back up it seems...

The indo scam site is down and will stay down. Rumaweb the indo web host company are really good, once you complain they shut it down no questions.

The bid4kite site is another story.

On the whole I think essoeira is probably right, they are trying, p!ss poorly, to become the world ebay of kite sales, buy paying cheap 3rd world labour to steal ads from other sites.

^^^ ah yeah, I was saying bid4kite was still up not the other site.

Interesting links kiteboy, I sent the results of some googlefu to Laurie as I reckon I found a real name and email address for lastangel.

I found a windsurfing version too: <link removed, might serve malware>