Someone's Going To Get Stung

MickKnipfler

laura_marshall89 wrote:

Shockingly- to make money, why, whats ur intent when on ebay- mines certainly to make money

Yes but by selling to people at a price that both buyer and seller agree to be fair. Not by deliberately misleading buyers and trying to do it "within the rules". at the end of the day., these type of auctions are trying to trap people.

codger

How you or anyone else could provde "a clear intent" to defraud when the listing only demonstrated "a clear intent to sell an image" baffles me.

And no, I haven't missed the point: eBay hasn't ever viewed miscategorisation of a listing as an attempt at fraud, otherwise it would've been pulliung thousands of listings every month from PowerSellers flogging carp in the Rolex and Omega watch listings (to name but two).

eBay's pulled this seller's latest listings because of the aggro quotient caused by numptie buyers who entered a transaction to buy an image and bought an image and then having got the image have decided it's not what they wanted.

pennylane99

no feedback from the buyers yet.......wonder if the seller had a change of heart and refunded their cash.....;)

frivolous_fay

codger wrote:

And no, I haven't missed the point: eBay hasn't ever viewed miscategorisation of a listing as an attempt at fraud, otherwise it would've been pulliung thousands of listings every month from PowerSellers flogging carp in the Rolex and Omega watch listings (to name but two).

Ebay only pulls listings if they're reported, and there is strong enough evidence of a violation of ebay's terms.

Have you been reporting them?

Amazombie

codger wrote:

How you or anyone else could provde "a clear intent" to defraud when the listing only demonstrated "a clear intent to sell an image" baffles me.

eBay's pulled this seller's latest listings because of the aggro quotient caused by numptie buyers who entered a transaction to buy an image and bought an image and then having got the image have decided it's not what they wanted.

You must be easily baffled :rotfl:

Wheres the clear intent to sell only an image when its not mentioned in the title that its only an image and its entered in the wrong category.

Again you're wrong over why Ebay pulled the new listing they did it for a misleading title.

Why are you sticking up for fraudsters?

shandypants5

has anyone actually chased this up to see what the guy received....
or contacted him to ask his views on this....?
Does he/she even know that we are all so worried for him..?

maybe it wasnt a scam.. just the sellers poor grasp of English ?

cammo12

I think there are an awful lot of people on here who are saying that the listing is OK are missing the point.

1. The title of the listing is for a Wii - which is missleading.

2. It is in the wrong category.

You cannot get around the fact it is in a wrong category and the title is missleading. There is no argument in support of the listing and anyone that thinks otherwise needs an education! :mad: :mad: :mad:

MickKnipfler

Sorry Codger, I think that the important thing is the sellers intention. I firmly believe it was to "make it easy for the buyer to make a mistake" at the very least.

angelnas

I agree that the seller was out to make money. I emailed the seller and asked what he was selling an image or the wii console. Guess what the reply was.....no response. That says it all!

impy78

codger wrote:

How you or anyone else could provde "a clear intent" to defraud when the listing only demonstrated "a clear intent to sell an image" baffles me.

And no, I haven't missed the point: eBay hasn't ever viewed miscategorisation of a listing as an attempt at fraud, otherwise it would've been pulliung thousands of listings every month from PowerSellers flogging carp in the Rolex and Omega watch listings (to name but two).

eBay's pulled this seller's latest listings because of the aggro quotient caused by numptie buyers who entered a transaction to buy an image and bought an image and then having got the image have decided it's not what they wanted.

It's got nothing to do with the miscategorisation... it's the title.


I don't understand why people are harping on about buyers not being able to read the auction, when I have posted the same thing umpteen times, with the actual wording of ebay's rules on misleading titles, copied and pasted from ebay as a quote, highlighted in red, and none of them seem to have been able to read that bit...:rolleyes: