Report and search auction fraud...

Inspector_Clouseau

CardAware have just launched a new web site http://www.reportauctionfraud.com which allows you for a nominal fee of 50p to search their extensive database for auction fraudsters prior to placing a bid, also you if you have suffered auction fraud yourself you can report the fraudster for free so other people are aware.

Tojo_Ralph

Inspector_Clouseau wrote:

if you have suffered auction fraud yourself you can report the fraudster for free so other people are aware.

I am struggling to get my head around how this can possibly work?

Are they going to take every report as gospel? ... If so ... it's an easy way to blacken a sellers name ... Or do they actually investigate reports?

If I have time, I'll take a look.

Inspector_Clouseau

To true Tojo Ralph I for one hope it works as I was stung for £100 so I wouldn't have minded forgoing the 50p search but the web site might be useful to some one.

Cat72

Must be a BIG list !!

soolin

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

I am struggling to get my head around how this can possibly work?

Are they going to take every report as gospel? ... If so ... it's an easy way to blacken a sellers name ... Or do they actually investigate reports?

If I have time, I'll take a look.

I'd also like to know how it works. Like Tojo Ralph my concern would be how easy is it to act maliciously?

Last year I picked up a malicious bidder, he targetted me particularly used BIN on one of my items and then left me an immediate negative. I'd obviously annoyed someone at one point and he felt that was a way of getting back to me but I would be concerned that false reports could be placed on a site about users. Luckily my experience ended well, ebay agreed that the bidder was malicious and removed the negative, all the comments and NARUD the user.

Likewise on the unmoderated ebay newsgroups people often try to blacken a sellers name with some real horror stories. Sometimes it doesn't take much digging to see that the seller was in fact the inoccent one and the buyer was acting maliciously, however, a lot of times the damage has already been done. That's why so few user on the unmoderated boards will use their real identity. Some good sellers have had thier rating ruined by other people on the newsgroups playing around 'for a laugh'.

Soo