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Fraud on ebay Sucks!
So I listed my laptop (see the last post). After a only a few hours I had a number of bids, which was great. And then by the next day it had been purchased with Buy It Now!
Except that wasn't so great. Turned out to be a Nigerian scam. But the problem is, I need to figure out how to get ebay to cancel the post so I'm not charged the listing and final value fees. And that now means that the auction isn't active and won't be active again for a while. Dammit!
Yeah, I'm quite annoyed by it. It's hard enough trying to find the time to list stuff that I need to sell much less trying to find time to deal with fraud. And I don't know if I can relist my item right away without worrying about losing the listing money from the last one. Either way, the listing time before was almost perfect and now it's not going to be. *sigh*
Oh well...
Posted by Shane on February 20, 2006 3:39 PM | Permalink
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:11&item=9114336442
recently i was almost scammed, someone put up an auction for a phone under my account
luckily i caught it cause i check my account frequently and contacted ebay
Posted by: steve fincham | March 13, 2006 12:56 PM
Ah, man. Having your account hacked is even worse. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with that.
Did it cause any lasting harm to your account? How did ebay go about handling it?
Posted by: Shane Conder | March 13, 2006 2:26 PM
Now Ebay requires all your information just to bid.
Attention !!!
Date of Birth:
Social Security Number
Mother's Maiden Name:
E-mail:
Card Information (ie, ATM, debit, credit card):
Card Number:
Card Expiration Date (mm/yyyy):
Card CVC2:
ATM PIN:
Banking Account information:
Account Number:
Routing Number:
This will be the death of EBAY.
So they will be checking under pants!!!
Posted by: crazyman | May 2, 2006 12:23 AM