Just picked this up from Ebay boards

chancesare_2

Brooker, these aren't small fry scamsters, this is BIG business, properly organised.

Brooker_Dave

I appriciate these are professional scammers, but..

When I had a paypal account, as soon as I'd sold a grands worth of stuff the froze it until I faxed them copies of my id?

And setting up a bank account is not that easy these days??

Or would they only pick on someone who had gone through all that in the past and no longer used ebay?

marking_bad

Anyone hate how it says "During past month" in feedback now?

chickendipperbabe

I've seen slightly worse. A few years ago over on the ebay seller board there was a rant by a seller concerning a buyer constantly leaving negatives, like every single feedback left for sellers was either a neutral or a neg (more so the latter) page after page. This person had two accounts, dealing in old sub £5 mobiles - buying on one and selling on the other. The ebay rep picked up on it after a few more of her victims came forward on the thread and a lot of the negatives left vanished tho both her accounts remained active.

I'm browsing ebay mostly every day and its not often I come across an obvious scam listing, like the cheap large screen TV's for £120, iMac's for £200 etc that were really common until recently so ebay are doing something right. More concerning though are the page overlays especially in the motoring section, I've seen two in the past month.

Contains_Mild_Peril

I've received a couple of spam texts recently from someone who says they buy and sell eBay accounts... I wonder if there's any connection?

theclonetrooper

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

How comes it's always DVDs when this happens?

Not always as I have found this.....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/snouk86/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&clk_rvr_id=815183599685&afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

soolin wrote: »

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.

Again if you check this chaps current "stock/catalogue picture" listings, his feedback & completed listings he has gone from insulin needles to high priced Lego sets, auctions finish in a couple of days but "free delivery" of the Lego will take a week by Hermes, (ebay postage estimate), so again you can see what is going to happen to the buyers