Joaquim Carvalho on 7/22/03 5:48 AM wrote: > Last week I tried to find some honest Powerbook deals on Ebay. > Among tens of fake 1GHz 15" and 17" there were a couple of 667MHz 15" > from people that accepted direct collect or Escrow. I made a few bids. > The prices ended up close to the price I can get a new 1GHz for so I > gave up. What is bothering me is that I now am receiving so many > Powerbook scam emails I can't count them. > Joaquim > p.s. I'm quite pissed of with Ebay by now, they should do something > besides taking our money >
Actually, they only take the sellers money. You say you're pissed at eBay and they should do something. Well, they can't do anything unless you tell them there's a problem. How are they supposed to read through the millions of emails sent each week to find the small percentage that might be scams? I have a hard enough time keeping up with the few hundred I get each week. This is why they include the disclaimer at the end of each and every message (including the one you posted in your follow-up to this message). Here it is in case you missed it. Note the link at the end regarding stopping spam: > -------------------- > This email was sent by an eBay member via eBay's email forwarding system. If > you reply to the email, your response will go directly to the member and not > through eBay. > > eBay does not tolerate spam (i.e., unsolicited commercial email) and is > taking steps to protect members from this abuse. In addition, solicitations > to buy or sell items outside of eBay violate eBay rules and are not covered > by services that protect members such as feedback, insurance, escrow, and > dispute resolution. If this is an offer to buy/sell items outside of eBay, > please do not participate. Enter the following link into your browser to > learn more. Link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/new/stopping_spam.html At the company where I work, we sell thousands of dollars worth of restaurant equipment each month on eBay. I handle all eBay transactions. By providing the best possible customer service we can, we've managed to maintain a 100% feedback rating. Needless to say I also get some spam and unsolicited offers. If I suspect them to be shady, I won't hesitate to report them to eBay. I don't have time to sit around and grumble about eBay's poor service (which I have yet to experience). eBay has a system for reporting and I use it. I guess I'm making this point because I feel like I'm being judge guilty by association. When you consider that there are literally millions of transactions occurring each year on eBay, then even if one percent of them went bad (I don't know the actual numbers), we're talking thousands of people who were ripped off. I don't doubt that eBay is trying to do something about them but I can only imagine that it would take a police force the size of a large city to investigate all the deals that have gone bad, let alone policing all the scam-artists attempting to cheat somebody. I'm actually impressed that it's not as bad as it could be on eBay. -Mark -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
