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HALT AND HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!

Did you buy a Hall Pantera Weber manifold with the webers and linkage? If so, you are treading on very thin ice.

I exchanged some emails with this guy back in July when he first appeared and the DeTomaso forum flagged him as a probable scam. I did get some home shot - not catalog - photos of the item which indicates the item does exist- or at least did. Man is Paul Jackson and he is connected somehow with Spark Motors on Manhattan Island. But things just don't seem right.

I've been buying and selling on eBay for a couple of years, over 250 transactions, and this one is scary.

This is either a very hokey, questionable deal or a complete scam. IMHO

He is an eBayer with NO PRIOR HISTORY and has been listing this auction over and over again for months. Opening bid on it is $500, and auction text tells you to email him for availability. This opens the door for him to set up on off-eBay payment transaction, perhaps this e gold system, and you will be SOL if the deal falls through.

This really does appear to be a scam. Address is in New York, so if you are planning to try and complete this auction, I suggest the ONLY way you do so is with a personal pickup of the item BEFORE any money changes hands.

If you click on his other items for sale, he lists many high end automotive items...so many that you wonder how in heaven's name anyone would come into possession of such an assortment.

Please, be very very suspicious of this auction and any payment/guarantee method presented to you - if this is the Hall/Weber manifold auction.

BE CAREFULL!!

Larry

This auction is uaually removed by eBay within hours of posting, but the guy is very persistent and pops up again a week or two later, new seller name, same auction.