How to extend a ebay listing?

Is this a scam- Ebay listing??? urgent please?

• I have contacted this business via a a job lisiting thing at Gumtree.com; the job contract: greement of Contracted Services Between [Users] And Company Imports | Australia Phone: 02 9089 8893 ABN: 35 139 946 517 [email protected] www.companyimports.com.au This outlines the contractual agreement for services rendered between the aforementioned parties from the above date until further notice. Company Imports will be utilizing [Users]'s Ebay account (id:) as a medium to sell various consumer retail products, all of which are located and sold only within Australia on the www.ebay.com.au website. Company Imports will provide [Users] with descriptions of all products he would like to sell utilizing [Users]'s account, representing them fairly and accurately without false representation. Company Imports will be held responsible for delivering the product as described in the product listing(s), as well as delivering them within the specified time frame stated in each auction. All products have been stated and guaranteed by Company Imports as legitimate retail grade products, not refurbished, replicas, b-stock, or otherwise. All products are to meet local country guidelines, laws and regulations. [Users] is to be compensated for all ebay listing/final value fees and payment processor fees under his name. This includes, and is not limited to: ebay listing and upgrade fees, ebay final value fees, etc. Company Imports agrees to furnish [Users] with all sales records for products sold on [Users]'s account, at [Users]'s discretion. In return, [Users] agrees to furnish Company Imports with any and all service charge records (whether on ebay or on a payment processor) at Company Imports's discretion. [Users] agrees to pay Company Imports for services rendered periodically in accordance with the above contract and holds no accountability for disclosure or otherwise to the relevant financial authorities for said monies that may incur tax obligations within Australia. Ebay listings will be made with the option of the buyer using Paypal. Payments via paypal will be processed by [Users] and paid to Company Imports on daily basis via bank wire. Company Imports agrees to payments to [Users] for all ebay listing fees. Any and all chargeback/fraudulent attempts at recouping money made by buyer(s) are the sole responsibility of Company Imports, and not [Users]. Meaning in the event a customer utilizes fraudulent sources of payment, or decides to file a chargeback with their credit card/etc...Company Imports will be responsible for recouping/covering these funds, either through the money he received from the product initially or through his own personal funds. [Users] will not hold any financial or personal responsibility in such cases. Digitally signed, Company Imports I have found the companies details: http://www.abnsearch.com.au/express/results/unique_search.asp?ABN=35139946517 and website: http://www.companyimports.com.au but I am not sure if this is REAL or a good scam? Kind regards, please I need to know asap - as they need someone to fill the position.... i would like to do this job if it is not a scam

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  100% scam. There is no job. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will supply you with stock photos of merchandise. You are suppose to open an ebay, paypal and craigslists accounts in YOUR name, advertise the merchandise, collect money in YOUR name and send the cash onto the scammer via Western Union or moneygram. The scammer will NEVER ship anything to the buyers, so you get the real life job of paying them all back, plus pay fees to ebay and paypal. Then you are ip banned from ebay, paypal and craigslists. Your paypal-linked bank account or credit card could be permenantly closed and now you are blacklisted from ever opening another account at your bank. Being ip banned for scamming is the real reason that scammer can't post on ebay or craigslist or any other auction/selling site. 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. 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. 7 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs: 1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one. 2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order. 3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity. 4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone. 5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram. 6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site. 7) Job asks you to post ads on ebay/craigslist or on forums advertising merchandise, programs or other websites Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason. If you google "fake job posting ads scam", "selling on ebay fraud Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.