posted on March 29, 2002 05:42:46 AM
Sorry, I don't know how to link to this article - This is the reporter who was looking for information regarding eBay seller accounts that have been hacked into for scammers to use their accounts to defraud others.
posted on March 30, 2002 12:44:52 PM
[quote]The percentage of auctions that end in a confirmed case of fraud on eBay is less than one one-hundredth of 1 percent, the San Jose, Calif.-based company said. But the problem has been a persistent thorn in the side of the company and of the online auction industry as a whole.
Yeah friggin right.......you can't report a fraudulant transaction or file a complaint unless the ending bid on an item is over $25
I have been defrauded quite a few times......only problem was since they were all under $25 I got a stop sign on the report fraud page. Their insurance company who investigates won't even take a look unless it is an expensive item.
posted on March 30, 2002 12:59:45 PM
[quote] Last year, consumers reported some 20,000 fraud complaints concerning online auctions to the Federal Trade Commission, second only to complaints about identity theft. Some complaints involved sellers who simply never sent the goods they auctioned.
Now in the sellers defense........lets see.......how many auctions are the USPS lost package group running these days??????
Last year when I first discovered the USPS auctions it was a day or so after I read a big story on the quoted 20,000 complaints the FTC gets a year conserning online fraud, emphasizing how most of them were auction related.
So I went to their website, found a phone number and called.
I talked to a real agent lol and told them how there would be a hell of a lot less auction related non shipment of goods fraud reports if the USPS would make a better attempt at delivering packages and not just simply auction them off on Ebay themselves.
The agent was quite interested in my opinion and I gave her the user ID's of all the postal auctions. She said she'd take a look and that it was something to consider.
Not sure if they ever did look or did anything about it. But I got it off my chest at the time since in the big picture it makes all of us sellers look bad. Online fraud was also big news on TV with surveys and polls and number crunching at that time.
I've been defrauded quite a few times like I said before......but they were all MTG cards and in the end those sellers got put out of business with a huge surge of negs from everyone who bid on their cards.
