On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:14 PM, Stefan Lindblom wrote:
Yeah, I got the same mail.. or rather it was info on the side in a mail another person sent to me through Ebay. Here is what it said:
Never respond to an unsolicited email that includes incentives to
buy or sell an item off the eBay Marketplace. If you get such an email,
please report it to eBay.
Never pay for your item with an instant cash transfer service such as
MoneyGram or Western Union. These services are like sending cash to a
stranger - they are an extremely unsafe way to pay.
For more safe trading tips, please visit the eBay Security Center.
I have no idea how that will look in your mailclients, I simply copy/pasted
it. If it looks awful, my apologies. And yes, I agree with Tom, it really is
a shitty thing to do, Western Union should sue them.
Well, the first question that pops into my mind is does the "instant cash transfer service" at Western Union work the same way as Auction Payments? If you are effectively wiring cash to someone without any type of audit trail, then yeah, you are taking a risk. "I sent J. Random eBaySeller $x.xx as a cash transfer" is different from "I sent J. Random eBaySeller an Auction Payment money order for $x.xx for auction #1234567890".
I don't think eBay is being terrible in this case. They are trying to protect the newbies and the clueless. If they don't try they'll run afoul of the various state consumer protection agencies again. eBay is kind of damned either way they go.
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Edward Franks
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