There are almost continous auctions claiming to be selling a 2001 or 2002 John Deere 455 usually with a loader and a deck , there is usually an off eBay buy it now of $2,900.00 or $3,000.00

These are a known scam.  The scammers operate by hijacking unsuspecting victim's eBay accounts, so the feedback and reputation looks good.  Do not contact the included non ebay email address in the auctions.  It will have some lame excuse about the ebay email being full or not working.  I would be leary of the regular eBay email as well because if they hijack an acount they can forward the mail to themselves.

 I have killed at least a dozen of these ads and just about every day there is a new one.   I have seen them for Kubotas also and I'm sure many more items as well.  It's the old if it seems too good.......   There are plenty of good sellers offering John Deere 455 and other tractors, don't let one of the scam artists get their hooks in you. 

While you are at it, watch out for getting YOUR account stolen, if some auction doesn't seem legit and you get a sign in to your acount page when you were already signed in, think scam and go to your home page NOT using any link from the auction page.  A friend of mine even got a PHONE CALL requesting his sign in info.  So there are lots of scammers out there.

UPDATE 8-06   The latest wrinkle is a one day private auction, no loader,  $2,300 still using an off eBay email.

Gary