In my vain attempt at overcoming paranoia I'm trying eBay - yes for the first time - and well I'm already scared :)
My first bid was/is for this phone I've always fancied prior to the iPhone arriving here on December 15th... so i bid £30 - not a lot, figuring I wouldn't get it and that if anything dodgy went on the Paypal insurance would kick in... and now I have a bad feeling about it as the guy has only been a seller for a few weeks and his 100% rating from 10 people looks strange to me. I mean would you trust a second hand car salesman called "hottseller2007" - even if he had 10 recommendations from people like "kentcardealer " or "everydayimbuying " or "titi2002-88". Now not being familiar with eBay etiquette maybe I'm missing out on something here - do all eBay punters have nicks that sound like spammers? Anyway it turns out the seller does not take PayPal - and i'm contractually bound to stick to my bid and pay into this guys account before he ships due to some story about having lost I DO NOT ACCEPT PAYPAL BECAUSE MY LAST 2 EXPERIENCES OF PAYPAL WERE SCAMMERS > USING STOLEN ACCOUNTS TO MAKE UNAUTHORISED PAYMENTS. > > I LOST £500 BECAUSE OF THIS SO I HAVE CLOSED MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT. I WILL NOT > MAKE ANOTHER ONE. I DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ACCEPT PAYMENT BY > PAYPAL. > > I ACCEPT PAYMENT BY BANK DEPOSIT OR BANK TRANSFER ONLY. > > MY ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM A DISTRIBUTOR IN THE UK VIA 1ST CLASS POST > WITHIN 48 HOURS OF CLEARED FUNDS Reading this and travelling around the links of comments it looks like no one much has been a member more than a few weeks in this little self congratulatory circle - including the putative "NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER" - its that language of it all that my paranoia objects to... Well I guess - I'll stick to paying up and seeing what happens - is it common for people to set up scams with multiple accounts all voting for each other? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
