Motorcycle Store Online

- Is this motorcycle craigslist-add an online scam?
Im looking at buying a motorcycle from craigs list and the seller wants to go through the ebay buyer protection plan and ship through dependable auto shippers. I dont know how buyer protection works and i have never purchased a vehicle so i dont know how the system works. below are the emails she sent me in response to inquiring about the bike. Could someone tell me if this is a potential scam and if I will be protected through the buyer protection plan? Seller talking about the bike: "Hi, The bike has 2,289 miles, 1owner. It's in perfect condition,no engine/electric problems,no accidents/liens/loans. no scratches,never been repainted.I have all the bike 's manuals,2 spare keys,title,documents.I'm selling the bike because my child of only 19 died 4 months ago in a car accident,a drunk driver hit him and his fiancee.He was with his fiance's car coming to our home at his little brother birthday of 10 years old. This 2007 Honda CBR was his bike and it brings me bad memories and that's the reason I want to sell it.The last price is $2,900.Me and my husband travel a lot with our business and we want to make this deal through eBay's Buyer Protection Program.I just need your full name,full shipping address, home/cell # so I can open a case.(with no further obligation or fees).eBay will contact you with all the Transaction/shipping details you will need.We will take care of the shipping so don't worry. We hope to hear soon from you. For more pictures here is a link to the bike's photo gallery: http://www.use.com/d25bdd68fc5c44c88638" seller talking about shipping: "Hi, Thank you, the bike is located in Las Vegas at DAS ( Dependable Auto Shippers ) headquarters, in the container, sealed and ready for shipping. You will have 10 days so you can inspect the bike. Once you have inspected the bike and decided to keep it, you will confirm your decision to eBay and only then they will re-route the money in to my account, but if by any reason, you won't be satisfied with the bike you can return it back for a full refund of your money. I will take care of the shipping, don't worry. You will receive the bike with all the necessary papers (clear title, bill of sale, user’s manual, insurance etc). Just get back with your full name and full shipping address and I will get everything started as soon as possible, then eBay will contact you with further instructions" It should be noted that she ignores any request for her phone number.

A 100% scam. There is no motorcycle. There are stolen pictures of someone else's motorcycle. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "Dependable Auto Shippers" and will demand you pay for "shipping costs", in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake car shipping scam", "western union shipping fraud" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam. "She" ignores all requests for a phone number because "she" is a he and barely speaks English with a heavy accent and if you were to hear HIM speak you would know instantly it was a scam.