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  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 75,130 Ambassador
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    chancesare wrote: »
    Look at the feedback.

    Looks like some poor seller has had their account hacked
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  • Brooker_Dave
    Brooker_Dave Posts: 5,196 Forumite
    How comes it's always DVDs when this happens?
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  • chancesare_2
    chancesare_2 Posts: 1,788 Forumite
    Brooker_Dave wrote: »
    How comes it's always DVDs when this happens?

    It's a relative enough amount of money to make a scam but not too much to scare a buyer to open a case early.

    DVD's is quick and high turnover. DVD accounts on ebay are strictly controlled but this guy has upped his game in the last few weeks by turning over a small fortune, only to then withdraw the money before the cases roll in. The account isn't hacked, it's probably been carefully groomed.
  • soolin
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    Brooker_Dave wrote: »
    How comes it's always DVDs when this happens?

    I did wonder if the fact they can use stock photos makes it easier? Instead of listing things and having to put photos on everything he just lists against the catalogue.
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  • theclonetrooper
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    Brooker_Dave wrote: »
    How comes it's always DVDs when this happens?
    If you check out his sold items he sold 4 HP printers at 5K each between 25th-31st Jan, netting him a nice and tidy 20K, after that its all DVD's
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  • chancesare_2
    chancesare_2 Posts: 1,788 Forumite
    theclonetrooper wrote: »
    If you check out his sold items he sold 4 HP printers at 5K each between 25th-31st Jan, netting him a nice and tidy 20K, after that its all DVD's

    Yep, and using completed searches you can make a guess at about £42K. Not bad for a week's work.
  • Brooker_Dave
    Brooker_Dave Posts: 5,196 Forumite
    chancesare wrote: »
    Yep, and using completed searches you can make a guess at about £42K. Not bad for a week's work.

    Won't there be a paypal hold at some point limiting the ability to spend the loot?
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  • soolin
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    Brooker_Dave wrote: »
    Won't there be a paypal hold at some point limiting the ability to spend the loot?

    There should have been if he went from selling £10 DVDs to £5k printers- perhaps the scan didn't work quite as well as he had hoped and so he had to go back to DVDs?

    Also of course if the 4 £5k printers were scammed then those 4 cases in paypal would have been enough to get him closed down- and he is still trading. There is something very odd here.
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  • Brooker_Dave
    Brooker_Dave Posts: 5,196 Forumite
    I suppose if linked scammers all buy off each other, and leave good feedback, then that would help?
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  • anotheruser
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    I wonder what happens with things like this and the bank.
    If the guy pulls all the money out, PayPal chase him, but how far does that really go?
    I wonder if PayPal then charge his account, but he complains to the bank saying it's fraudulent and the money is then returned to his account?
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