Found a new one (to me, at least) today... an Amazon Marketplace seller had a big ticket item I've been eyeing for a wicked price. ($900 instead of Amazon's $1400, which is near the standard.)
I think to myself, "that price is too good to be true, but since Amazon guarantees their marketplace vendors, I'd better jump on it", so I put it in the cart and try to pay. Even though the item is supposed to be in Oregon and I'm in California, it barfs back and says it can't ship to my address.
I contact the seller through Amazon's mail system (which they say they keep copies of, in case there's a problem and Amazon needs to step up to guarantee the transaction), and the seller quickly tries to get me off Amazon's system and into a private email conversation. (Red flag #1. Or maybe #2, if you consider the 'too good to be true' price.)
Then, the seller fires back with a request for my name/address/etc to "be able to process it with Amazon". BS! The red flag has now been burned to a crisp. I knew I wasn't getting a deal today, but doublechecked with Amazon's chat people and they confirmed that it was bogus.
I'm not sure what the end game was, but I can imagine that a request for a credit card number or a phishing attempt would have been next.
On the plus side, Amazon seems to move pretty quickly on these things. I think it was about 4 hours (on a Saturday) until the seller was disappeared.
If you ever need to rat out a seller and don't have the energy to either wade through bazillions of pages searching for a link or spend time in chat, click on this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/reports
Anyone else see this? My vendor only had big ticket items, but I wouldn't be surprised if it trickled down to $100 flashlights selling for $55.