JR - I'm not being coy, just careful.
But, if some members of the list buy dvds they can ask me
and by-the-way dvdforfun611 has been booted.
If some members buy Turkish posters, then I'd be
pleased to advise them.
Interestingly, anyone thinking of buying from
salamon34 might want to check the feedback: Score 863 / 97.1%
/ Members who left a negative: 27 / Past Month -3 / Past 6 Months -10
/ Past 12 Months -11 / neutrals total 14
It seems with some sellers there are always some
random buyers who don't get anything nor any communication. Strange how
that is. Never enough problems to warrant scrutiny let alone action by ebay,
but enough to warrant caution.
Craig
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:40
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] A Tale of Two
Feedback Ratings
I do wish Craig would post the names of sellers he knows are bad. Why
only offer to provide them privately? Why not let everyone know? Why would
you protect these sellers? They are not going to sue you for mentioning
their seller names on MOPO, even if they read MOPO, which is highly
unlikely.
In the case of the magically re-appearing seller, it does sound like
eBay is trying pretty hard to stop this guy. it was pointed out that
they booted him, then he comes back the next day under a different name and
they boot him again, yet he comes back the next day under yet another name.
It seems eBay is booting him as soon as they become aware of him operating
under a new name. This is actually pretty good reaction time for eBay --
which usually waits months to take action (if they ever do).
The problem is sheer volume. There are probably 1 million items PER DAY
being listed on eBay. How would you check each one for fraud or repetition
of phrases used in previous fraudulent descriptions? Virtually impossible to
go through them all and then have humans evaluate them against past problems
-- at least in any reasonable time.
If the seller has registered a bunch of different names with eBay, that
makes it really tough. How are they to know that the new seller name is the
same person as the old outlawed name? At least at first.
In theory, they should be able to identify these people by the credit
card number that they have to provide in order to be a seller. In practice,
it appears these bad guy sellers have access to a whole lot of different
credit card numbers and have no trouble coming up with a new one for each
new seller name they create.
It's pretty scary and the only real solution is to deal either with
sellers you know to be safe from past transactions or to at least make sure
the feedback on a seller you are trying for the first time is way up there
in the 99.5% and above area. It should be closers to 99.8% if the
seller has thousands of feedbacks. There should only be one or
two negatives and they should not be the serious "non-delivery" kind. I know
this approach really penalizes newbie sellers, but that's unavoidable in the
kind of mass-market mess and free for all that eBay has become.
Sure, you will have to pass up some "real bargains" with this approach
-- which is a shame -- but on the other hand, it is the "real bargains" that
the crooks dangle in front of people in their bogus auctions to lure them
in.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004
10:43
Subject: Re: [MOPO] A Tale of Two
Feedback Ratings
forget about feedback ratings-----look at the crooks
mgagalli sells dvds and gets booted
the very next day the
exact ad appears under the name
stereoproductions and is so
brazen that mgagalli@ I forgot the internet address is listed
in the description.
then steroproductions gets booted off and the
very next day the same ad appears under seller name
tyguyz
this seller lists a huge amount of dvds daily
and who knows how many other sellers do the same thing.
To
make matters worse, I bought dvds from mgagalli and the auction was
cancelled. I had already paid with paypal but pay was not notified
by ebay and the money was given to the seller. I called him and was
told they had been shipped and I did receive them. However, what if
he did not ship them. Paypal is owned by ebay, their auction sales
ask you to pay immediately and are coordinated but lo and behold, are they
coordinated when the reverse happens. Of course not. You are
now on your own trying to get your money back.
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