posted on January 15, 2008 10:42:00 AM new
Not me, but an ebay seller had two vintage furniture auctions canceled by ebay (pfffft!)at the last minute due to the BIDDER's account being hijacked.
Why would a hijacker be interested in bidding on furniture? Expensive pieces but heavy and not much resale value as opposed to maybe a laptop.
Just wondering if this makes any sense to anyone? What's the pay off in this scam?
posted on January 15, 2008 10:48:57 AM new
They may have people who would buy antique furniture,like dealers!
Or they may be local and plan to come and pick up the furniture,same day the payment is made online.
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posted on January 15, 2008 11:17:31 AM new
Or it might be one of those "I'll send you a check for more money than the auction and you send me the difference."
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posted on January 15, 2008 11:35:49 AM new
Or it might be one of those "I'll send you a check for more money than the auction and you send me the difference."
I agree. This is usually followed by "and I'll send my agent to get the furniture (horse, car, computer, etc) after you have my payment" and since they never intend to actually pick up, heavy is not an issue.
Does anyone know why ebay can't cancel the fradulent bids and briefly naru the hijacked account instead of shutting fown the entire listing and making the seller pay the price for someone else's greed? I don't get that part. I would be PO'd to the max if they did this to me.
posted on January 15, 2008 11:48:36 AM new
Does anyone know why ebay can't cancel the fradulent bids and briefly naru the hijacked account instead of shutting fown the entire listing and making the seller pay the price for someone else's greed? I don't get that part. I would be PO'd to the max if they did this to me.
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This is another topic for the criminal minds?
may be the seller and bidders are collaborators?
Or
Ebay is too cheap to pay someone to change the program!
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posted on January 15, 2008 01:32:05 PM new
I don't know hwahwa. I have had it happen a couple of times and it really bugs me too. We get FVF refunded but not listing etc. My fraudulent bidders were apparently "serial" bidders - not so much scam artists as mischief makers. They bid on thousands of auctions in a matter of minutes (must have been robot bids) - maybe this is what happened to your friend, skizzi.
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posted on January 15, 2008 01:51:20 PM new
Thanks for the ideas! lol maybe I can run some of these scams myself.
As for the money orders, wouldn't the money go to the hijacked account rather than the hijacker? The address would alert the seller.
Neglus - that hadn't occured to me ... just mischief. Yes, a real pain. He said it was about 1000.00 of items. Maybe he was just in a random lot of sellers that were attacked.
