This guy put his Yamaha YSR, the smallest street-legal bike, up for sale on eBay and received an outrageous offer for it.
When the virtual gavel fell, the highest bidder won the bike for $130,000.
That’s a ridiculously unrealistic price for the bike, so the seller immediately knew something was off.
But the truth confused him even more.
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The reason behind the outrageous bid on the Yamaha YSR
Sean Kerr, the man behind the Bikes and Beards YouTube channel, wanted to sell his Yamaha YSR, a tiny street-legal motorcycle that was relatively popular in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s.
Kerr was shocked when he realized his street-legal bike had sold for over $130,000.
The bike is worth a few thousand dollars, definitely not the price of a house or a supercar.
He was suspicious, and was pretty sure there was something scammy going on, but he didn’t know what.
So he got in touch with staff from eBay but he said they were polite, but not particularly helpful.
“They’ve got systems in place to automatically detect fraudulent bids but there’s not much they can do. Usually they just cancel the bid or the auction altogether and tell you to try again,” Kerr said.
He also gave the buyer a call, and things got even weirder.
The buyer said he didn’t even know he had placed the bid, but Kerr didn’t believe him and, after some more research, he found out that the buyer hadn’t been honest about two things.
First, he somehow seemed to be linked with eBay, maybe an ex-employee or current employee, and he probably lied about not knowing anything about his YouTube channel.
So yes, the $130,000 wasn’t legit but Kerr still wasn’t sure exactly sure what was going on, although he strongly suspected the guy just wanted to be featured in the channel.
When buying online goes wrong
We’ve come a long way since the Wild West early days of the internet, but it’s still perfectly possible to be scammed online.
Recently, another YouTuber got scammed when he tried buying an electric sportscar for $31,000.
He tried to get a refund, obviously, but that didn’t work out very well.
As a result, he ended up keeping car and using it occasionally and he even modified it.
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