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EBay thief reveals tricks of the trade Over 2 Million $$
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kwong2001
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That's scary. I base all my transactions on user feedbacks too.
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Eddy, it is so funny you posted that now.
About a month ago I sold a pressure cleaner engine on ebay for several hundred dollars, and 75 for shipping. There were two bidders who really seemed to want it, the winning bidder paid me immediately via paypal. A day later the second place bidder emailed me that he received an email from an ebay wholeseller, that the winning bidder had backed out and that he could have the engine for the same price but only $15 to ship it, (it cost me $68 to ship this engine). He had emailed me to see if I would sell it to him for his high bid which was about $75 less than the winning bidder. I emailed him back immediately and told him no way, it was not me, and that I had already been paid for the item, do not send this person any money and he should report it to ebay. I too reported it only to get an email back from the assholes at ebay that they would not even look into this because I had not included some batch of numbers or something of that nature in the header, I was floored, it took ebay nearly two weeks to even respond to me, then for this to be their response. They have no customer service phone number to call if you do have a problem, and are not user friendly at all. I guess as long as they (ebay) gets paid they don't give a poop if their customers are being scammed and ripped off. I am pretty disgusted with ebay at the moment.
About a month ago I sold a pressure cleaner engine on ebay for several hundred dollars, and 75 for shipping. There were two bidders who really seemed to want it, the winning bidder paid me immediately via paypal. A day later the second place bidder emailed me that he received an email from an ebay wholeseller, that the winning bidder had backed out and that he could have the engine for the same price but only $15 to ship it, (it cost me $68 to ship this engine). He had emailed me to see if I would sell it to him for his high bid which was about $75 less than the winning bidder. I emailed him back immediately and told him no way, it was not me, and that I had already been paid for the item, do not send this person any money and he should report it to ebay. I too reported it only to get an email back from the assholes at ebay that they would not even look into this because I had not included some batch of numbers or something of that nature in the header, I was floored, it took ebay nearly two weeks to even respond to me, then for this to be their response. They have no customer service phone number to call if you do have a problem, and are not user friendly at all. I guess as long as they (ebay) gets paid they don't give a poop if their customers are being scammed and ripped off. I am pretty disgusted with ebay at the moment.
newnitrofan
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Yeah that guy sucks I almost fell for that too. Later
robriguez
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I say that if your stupid enough to give your password out to anyone then you deserv no sympathy. If you want to deal in back alleys and NOT in the Ebay Store front, then you deserv no sympathy. And if you send money through untrackable means your stupid!
Common sense, that's all there is to it. If it's too good to be tru, then it usually is. Granted, everything has it's risk but make it a calculated risk. Do all that you can to protect yourself but most of all, keep a record just in case! Ebay and all the things that came about because of it is great. All it takes is 1 theif to make an experience a bad one.
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callawaymax
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I'm actually a PowerSeller on Ebay and you can't imagine how many fradulent emails I get a day (forged Ebay looking emails with Ebay's logo), asking me to either email them my account password or taking me to a link on a website that has ebay's webpage copied exactly down to the T. Lots of scammers to watch out for. Fortunately for me, I have a networking background that helps me to be ahead of their game.
Punks like that ruin it for all the good people.
Punks like that ruin it for all the good people.
