More Ebay scammers about

[Guest Ferret1959]

Hmmm, On the sellers earlier sale, it was "bought" by someone with a similar type name, and who joined ebay only two days before the seller....something smelly there !!!!!

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220046225233

 

 

Bluddy fast turn-a-round on that one Norrie.

 

 

Wish I could get deals that quick.

[Newt]

Lets face it. Ebay is a crooks paradise

Since there is money to be made, it certainly does attract both good sellers and bad; both honest sellers and crooks. Could eBay police things better than they do - certainly. However, many buyers & sellers are undone by a combination of their own greed and their unwillingness to take a few momemts to check out the person they intend to do business with.

 

- Hi. I'd like to buy the nice £20K auto you have listed for £4K and the fact that it is so cheap, located in Bulgaria where I can't see it, and you are using an escrow service that does not exist does not bother me. Here's my money.

 

- Hi. I'd like to buy the genuine designer purse worth £600 that you have listed for £45. The fact that you are located in China and have 10 feedback with all of them from other eBayers in China for items costing about 30p and the feedback was received within 2 hours of the sale from a now unregistered buyer does not bother me. Here is my money.

 

- Hi. I'm so glad you want to buy my used mobile phone worth £45 for £2150 and your asking me to ship it to your uncle who is on a church mission in Nigeria since you are away in Canada on business does not strike me as the least bit odd. I am shipping the phone and trust that you will pay me soon.

 

- Hi. I would like to buy one of your widgets and the fact that you have 300 negative feedbacks for not shipping items you sell does not bother me. Well, it might have but I could not be bothered to check before I bought.

 

- Hi. Thank you so much for the nice email telling me I have a problem and allowing me to give you my eBay & Paypal user IDs, eBay & Paypal passwords, and credit card number so you can fix whatever my problem happens to be. Since your email says it is from eBay and uses all those nice logos, I have no doubt whatever that it is perfectly legit and safe.

 

The reality is that most of the millions of eBay transactions each week are fine and problem free. Certainly there are problems and in some cases, the buyer or seller could not have anticipated problems but anyone who expects internet trading to be so safe as to not need any precautions or to have occasional problems should not be allowed out of the house without an adult escort.

[Guest Ferret1959]

Since...............................

................ adult escort.

 

 

 

Hey I just bought some weird looking fish off some woman in the US of A.

I hope they don't turn round and say they is on holiday in a few days time. :D

[Newt]

Dave - you can't trust any of them Yank eBay sellers. This one sounds right dodgy to me.

[Guest Ferret1959]

Sounds more fishy to me, but hats off to the honest Ebayers.

[Tog]

For someone who does not trade a lot on Ebay a neg from a scammer makes you look real bad. When it's obvious that you've negged a scammer Ebay should remove the neg on your feedback - not allow the scammer to post more lies?

In this case Ebay removed the 'beware of this scammer' ad but did not kick off the scammer?

Would the scammer still have to pay ebay a listing fee? after all the auction went through and the buyers wanted their goods - the seller just didn't have them, did not have permission of the rightful owners to sell them or use their photos, but as far as I can see Ebay would still have billed the scammer for listing??

Maybe if the punters had bid over the odds for said goods the scammer would have tried to obtain the kit PDQ?

[ColinW]

I think you need to read up about how to use Ebay, Newt's post above is a start, there are pages and pages of advice, a lot on Ebay itself.

I wouldn't have touched that item with a barge pole. Here's why.

She had only two feedbacks (small alarm bell rings)

A quick look at these reveals that in both cases she was selling the same mobile phone (bigger alarm bell rings)

Not only that but in both cases she ended the auction early (huge klaxon blasting out)

One of the so called buyers has the same name as her (head explodes due to noise of alarms, klaxons and hooters!)

 

PS. Your reply to her negative feedback is too waffly and long and won't mean anything to anyone else, something like "Didn't own item, bounced my neg back at me" would have been much more use when other people check your feedback.