posted on November 29, 2000 05:21:21 PM new
After two years, I've been taken!
The seller is no longer registered. eMail address comes back as "unknown." Has over 1900 feedback as recently as postings on today's date. Upon reviewing the feedback, it is for piddling little amounts for trading cards.
I won an auction for a Germania beanie on eBay on November 20. I paid by PayPal. I didn't check feedback. My mistake. My amount was $25.50 but I note that the latest neg was from another buyer for $70+ and also for a Germania. (31 negs in last week; 51 past month.)
I have the number to call Investigations in the seller's state; however, the FBI site for reporting fraud is down until December 11.
Anyone else met this seller? I'm just not sure how much info I am permitted to leave on this board.
posted on November 29, 2000 07:24:13 PM new
I found them easy enough...but they are not NARU. In fact, they have a large number of auctions ongoing, including one for your Germania beanie! God, over 30 negatives in the past 7 days! And people are still bidding on their auctions!! How dumb! (Apologies to you, taisha1
The replies left for those negatives are real mature too.
Since you used PayPal, can't you institute a chargeback or something?
posted on November 29, 2000 07:32:56 PM new
Brother!....
Have you reported it to [email protected] ? They will put a stop to it, I am almost certain...Meanwhile, you can also report it to your post office (Postmaster, Mail Fraud)...till the FBI site comes back up...Good luck! What bad timing, too! around Xmas...
******************** Gosh Shosh!
posted on November 29, 2000 07:46:10 PM new
Went back and found him easily...Can't believe the rudeness of that seller...If that what a Power Seller or at last a High Feedback seller is like, I'll stay at my 100+ level...Hope he gets reported very soon!
******************** Gosh Shosh!
posted on November 29, 2000 08:02:55 PM new
I've seen this happen before when someone's password is stolen. The crook relists old auctions of a seller and then changes contact info, etc. Perhaps that was the case here?
posted on November 29, 2000 08:13:30 PM new
shosh... you aren't kidding! Very rude feedback! I like the one that says... notice all my negatives are from new users with little or no FB? Someone needs to point out that in addition to those newbies there are plenty of other negatives. One cluster of negatives comes from people with feedback like 87, 56,52.
My personal favorite to all the negs that say he doesn't email is him to keep repeating that he uses auction helper. I'm impressed. Aren't you?
posted on November 29, 2000 08:26:26 PM new
This makes me appreciate Yahoo's FB system even more- when you check a seller's FB it has the item sold along with the $$ amount of the high bid right beside it. You can instantly tell if that person has made their high FB rating on high ticket items or low. The downside is that a seller would have a hard time raising the price of an item that (s)he sells in multiples, but it is great for buyer's investigative purposes.
posted on November 29, 2000 08:28:15 PM new
taisha1,
Your post provides sufficient information to identify the seller. There are very specific requirements contained in the CG for inviting the other party when such identifying information is posted.
I'm going to lock this thread until those requirements have been met.
