Lost £9000 through eBay

Stevepsaila

Yes thanks everyone for there comments and advice  but eBay should hold some responsibility as criminals are using there platform to commit acts of fraud.
I am a hard working self employed flooring contractor I Don know about scams and fraud I just thought the eBay name was worth something but obviously not any can steal something and as long as you know how things work you can steal from people and eBay will do nothing because they can do nothing I will not purchase any from them again and I have been buying from them for 18 years thanks again 

theonlywayisup

Stevepsaila said:

Yes thanks everyone for there comments and advice  but eBay should hold some responsibility as criminals are using there platform to commit acts of fraud.
I am a hard working self employed flooring contractor I Don know about scams and fraud I just thought the eBay name was worth something but obviously not any can steal something and as long as you know how things work you can steal from people and eBay will do nothing because they can do nothing I will not purchase any from them again and I have been buying from them for 18 years thanks again 

Ebay do not need to hold any responsibility, they have done nothing wrong.  You have fallen for the scam. 

It is irrelevant that you are hardworking and are oblivious to scams of this sort, what you did was do something outside of eBay (click and email link).

I do feel for you but unfortunately it is all of your own doing. 

Carrot007

Stevepsaila said:

Yes thanks everyone for there comments and advice  but eBay should hold some responsibility as criminals are using there platform to commit acts of fraud.
I am a hard working self employed flooring contractor I Don know about scams and fraud I just thought the eBay name was worth something but obviously not any can steal something and as long as you know how things work you can steal from people and eBay will do nothing because they can do nothing I will not purchase any from them again and I have been buying from them for 18 years thanks again 

However ebay did not scam you. Someone scammed you using ebay as a buy in, probably on someone elses's account.

As such they will give you the account name, it is is requested by court action. However I doubt the account owner did it so it would just end up with you wasting more money.

However I shall say buying off ebay is rarely the best. If it's new they have to get it from somewhere. And is usually cheaper elsewhere even if not direct due to ebay costs. And for buying a vehicle. Ridiculous platform for it, however it is safe if you follow the rules.

"I don't know about scams and fraud" is as convincing a point as if you had got and driven the vehicle and then said to the police when stopped "I don't know about the road rules". If you want to do something somewhere you need to ascertain the problems that may occur and how to avoid them. Unfortunatly for you there is not enforced test for using ebay. I wish it were different.

Ebay maybe have 1% culpability here. No more than if you had replied to a oldie style newspaper ad and done the same.

bris

You sent 9k via a email link without even going to see the van? Scams aren't a new thing and Ebay is scammers paradise, surely a sale like this has to be done in person with a HPi check for the vehicle history. 

allison445

Not sure what bank you used may be worth contacting them
My daughter viewed a car the other week and wanted to buy it at a cost of just over £5500 she tried to transfer using faster payment via her tsb no joy as fraud prevention kicked in she then tried her partners tsb again fraud protection kicked in she then called me and asked me to try I used nationwide and again fraud prevention kicked in she had to apologise to the seller leave a small deposit and sort it out with the bank next day according to them its common practice for banks to put a hold on accounts were large payments are being sent to new payee's and when they asked what the payment was for and my daughter told them a car they asked had she actually seen it.
I am at a loss to understand why your bank never flagged the payment who was the payee ?

unforeseen

I am at a loss to understand why your bank never flagged the payment who was the payee ?

Probably because the OP was a trader and a large payment was not out of the norm. 

RFW

Stevepsaila said:

Yes thanks everyone for there comments and advice  but eBay should hold some responsibility as criminals are using there platform to commit acts of fraud.

It's, unfortunately not certain if that's the case. The account could have been hacked or emails sent  outside of Ebay by some other means.
Your most realistic chance of getting any money back. at this stage, is to appeal to Ebay to give you an ex gratia payment. You'd need to show that the person you gave money to was the Ebay seller and proof that you'd given any money over.
As it is though, Ebay only have your word that you've given money to their seller.