I've just bought some feedback

rdwarr

Well, inadvertantly

I've just started using Google Adwords to promote a website and had a look on eBay to see if there were any books on it. I noticed a good-looking Ebook selling for around £5 (which for a useful 80-page manual seemed fair enough) but then found somebody in Italy selling it for 1c!
So I bought it and very good it is too. However, it was clear from the follow-up Email that the seller didn't expect people to actually want the things they bought, it was just a way of inceasing feedback at next to no cost!
Moral: Next time somebody appears to have good feedback make sure they haven't just spent a couple of pounds on 1p/1c Ebooks!

I paid through Paypal and it charged me 1p! Should I complain about the 0.45p overcharge? :rotfl:

key215

what is the 0.45p overcharge????
sorry if being ignorant but not fully clued up bout ebay and paypal

Moglex

When it converted 1 hundredth of a Euro it needed to round the resultant figure to the nearest whole penny.

key215

ok i get ya. cheers

gravitytolls

What a darn good idea.

Now, how much is feedback from me worth?

LydiaSophia

Sorry but I really think this sort of behaviour on ebay just goes to show why so many people have stopped using it.

Surely if somebody is selling genuinely good quality stuff their feedback would go up without having to pull what sounds to me like a fast one!

gazza975526570

it doesnt just sound like a fast one. It IS a fast one!!

BFG_2

Many scammers are doing thsi to get high positive feedback, and then running an iPod/mob/laptop scam.

So it pays to actually look at feedback items for a seller 9especially if they have +100 within 2 weeks of joining eBay.!!!!!!!!!!!

mikey-mike_2

like this one you mean?

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John_T_5

If someone is selling something at 1p or 1c then they must be making a loss on the sale, the only way they can make a profit is if they are using a stolen account, or stolen credit card details so that some other poor sod has to pick up the bill for the fees at a later date.

What irks me more is the fact that anyone who has two brain cells to rub together can see that a fraud is taking place, try telling it to eBay and nothing gets done, so they are complicit in the fraud and in some cases will pursue some poor sap for fees using debt collectors.

angelcake

I fink this too! defo scammer! I have purchased a few ebooks at 1p just cos I wanted them but didn't leave feedback!! hahahaha