I'm still somewhat new to the forum and did search for this subject, so if I missed it I apologize. But, what if when someone spots an obvious rip-off artist on Ebay, everyone in the forum sends a scalding email to the seller and a warning email to the bidders (if it's not a private auction). Surely hundreds of "Ask Seller A question" emails would at least let him know folks were watching. Now about sending a warning to the bidders, they may think that it is just someone trying to get the car for themselves on the cheap, so it would be well to invite them to read the car's critique threads in the forum they would know that there are real issues.

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