February 14, 2008
Ebay scams against buyers and sellers
Consumerist.com is fast becoming my favorite blog to read. Here’s a recent piece about a seller who got scammed on ebay and paypal:
Complaints: Seller Gets Scammed On eBay Despite Doing Everything Right
Read the tragic tale of this screwed eBay seller over on Metafilter. He did everything Paypal told him to do to avoid being scammed when he sold a cellphone, including, when the buyer returned the item, opening it in front of a police officer. Problem was, the buyer/scammer sent back a smashed gold cellphone instead of nice $500+ cellphone that was sold. Seller protection policy should apply, right? Nope, it doesn’t cover "items not as described." Failure.
But that’s not the worst part – for that, read through the comments and see the litany of complaints from both buyers and sellers. Apparently, there are many many ways to get scammed since it appears ebay and paypal are not always particularly active in investigating, or refunding your money.
Talk about one sad and depressing thread. I use ebay from time to time, and now I’m definitely less inclined to do so.
2 Comments to “Ebay scams against buyers and sellers”
January 21st, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I got scammed buying a car on eBay only to find the scammer had about ten different eBay accounts and eBay seemed more interested in protecting the seller than helping any of his victims get a bit of justice so I opened a website http://WWW.EBuster.co.uk so that anyone can see who is selling lots of cars whilst pretending to be a private seller plus it gives guide prices and car reviews and lets people know if the reserve has been met.
The trading standards got on to eBay about my problem and have been held waiting over 6 weeks by eBay for information on the various accounts the scammer had but do watch out for a very overweight guy with short ginger hair and tattoos that operates from near junction 2 on the M5 in the UK and often used the name Garry Horton or Garry Saint.
In addition to the above I also monitor eBay motors for pages that have script injection and make regular reports to eBay who it seems are unable to protect against such attacks even if it only takes a few lines of code.
eBay have a habit of pulling the pages when something goes wrong as they try to brush it under the carpet so first port of call is to take a copy of the page before contacting eBay and if you need help linking various accounts together then I maybe able to help.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:36 am
EBAY’S NEW MANAGEMENT IS PUTTING THE COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS !!!
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