31 replies to this topic

[millsminis]

And one thing thats always worth noting is that each seller has 0 feedback....

[ian]

Funny that, ive just been on ebay looking for a vw bus, and i spotted a couple on there for 1900 and zero feedback.

One even had the same bus for sale just above the scam one with 5 bids and on 4500, the scammers had used the same pics.

How come ebay dont spot this themselfs, i know we should all report a scam but should we really be doing there work for them?

[Natalie]

I'll eat my pink cowboy hat!

Eating pink hats is sacrilige eat a blue one instead

Edited by PinkGirly, 01 August 2007 - 11:36 AM.

[mljb59]

there was one on the other week for a trials bike, almost word for word, same stupid answers when you asked questoins, the price was a little on the low side but not much. The problem is with paypal and delivery hoiw many of us actually do pay upfront for things without seeing them, sometimes you have no choice.

[sheree&the-gt]

ha someone tried doing this to me when i were selling mine, i led him on so he though he were gonna get the cash, but then landed him with a massive nasty email,

funnily enough..... i never herd from him again, hmmm strange x

[my_first_mini]

i had something similar on ebay when selling my phone, he lived in america and wanted the phone delivered to africa..... this sent alarm bells ringing.

aparently it was for his cousins birthday or something, demanded the money upfront and said i would wait for it to clear and guess what............................................................................
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suprise suprise no mail back lol

[Ethel]

It's about time someone got a grip of Ebay

They make a fortune and take very little responsibility for the criminal activity that goes on.

[Big_Adam]

You do realizes the enormity of ebay right?

There's a million items being sold by a C**p load of people at all times. And you want ebay to check each and every on to see if it's a scam?

Come on, thats pushing an imposable task. I mean if they did a system such as you need at lest "X" amount of feedback before selling or similar then they might be able to limit the problems but people always want a way to make some quick dishonest cash.

[Matt]

its not ebay thats the problem.. its paypal.

[Ethel]

Aren't Ebay and Paypal the same company?

Enormous business equals enormous profits so they certainly have scope to do more. I imagine most of us who use Ebay have seen something of their complaints and reporting procedure, looks pretty much like a fully automated means of abrogating responsibility to me.

[Guess-Works.com]

correct ebay owns paypal, which is why they stopped the use of other electronic payment methods on ebay... so they actually get a double bubble on sales... the listing and final valuation fee, and then the comission on the paypal transfer.

[Juju]

The also own Skype.
Just looked up their 2nd quarter revenue for 2007......$ 1,834.43 million.
Ebay Incorporated

[sheree&the-gt]

i had something similar on ebay when selling my phone, he lived in america and wanted the phone delivered to africa..... this sent alarm bells ringing.

aparently it was for his cousins birthday or something, demanded the money upfront and said i would wait for it to clear and guess what...
suprise suprise no mail back lol

they did that with my camera & my phone!! different sellers & the same email!! something about univerisity & a suurprise present! gits!




ah well. then they suddenly become no longer a registered user. i reckon ebays in on it!


& they work for ebay.

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[PhoenixSimon]

I was looking at an e type jag on ebay for £1900 classified add and when i emailed I got the exact same response about needing the money quick for family stuff but being away so viewing wasnt possible, photos showed an emmaculate concours 63 e type worth about 20k.
Seller was a zero rater thomasworthingpharmacueticalsltd or something like that
Ruddy scammers!!!!
Simon

[MiniSal]

In some situations, the dodyy seller puts up a pic of a vehicle which is not the one being sold. You see a pic of a concours car in the ad, but in reality the car for sale is a rusty shed !

Another trick is for them to sell the car and when you go to collect it, the seller has taken off those lovely alloys that were in the pic and put some cheap wheels on in their place, changed over the sound system for something inferior etc etc.