Beware of people offering eBay's 'second chance offer'. 
    Normally, when a sellers auction ends, the buyer pays for the item, the seller ships it and the deal is complete.  In the event the deal is not completed, the seller can then make what is called a second chance offer to the lower bidders to see if they would like to purchase the item for their highest bid.  Its a great concept and it works....BUT....
    I recently bid on several different Mathews compound bows before winning one.  I have received 2 second chance offers on 2 different bows, and came close to going for it and buying the bow at my highest bid.  What I did not know was that the second chance offers were coming from a con artist, a guy who somehow got the information and made me a second chance offer on a bow that he didn't even have!.   These offers came through my email and were extremely well written and looked exactly like the real thing.  The only difference was they did not appear in the my messages section of my eBay account.  The other tip off is that they want you to wire funds instead of using PayPal.
    I sent the email correspondence off to eBay's spoof email address, (which by the way is extremely helpful and should be used whenever you even slightly question  that something looks suspicious) and they confirmed that the offer WAS A SCAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!
    I love doing business on ebay, and I hope this message helps someone out there to avoid this scam or a similar one.