It is news articles like this that makes me glad I've never been in a bidding war on eBay or even actively participated in a buy from the website. Listen, if you are cruising eBay looking for the newest console, please, please, PLEASE absolutely read what you are bidding on.

From the article:

Surfing the listings at eBay, you'll see hundreds of auctions that are just tricks to rip idiot buyers off.

The favorite trick of... I'd say clever sellers, but if the buyers took a minute to read the details of the auction instead of just looking at the pictures, they would clue into the fact that the seller is trying to rip people off. The trick is to post pictures of a console and a misleading auction title like "Buy Playstation 3" and then put in the details that buyers are actually bidding on the Playstation 3 web site name domain and not the actual console.

Buyers are so quick to bid that they don't realize what they're really bidding on and then the winner get stuck paying for an item that they didn't want. Really this should be against the rules of eBay selling and everyone of these auction types should be removed, but god forbid eBay actually police their own auctions.

Read the full article and see one such scam over at destructoid.com