posted on October 27, 2001 01:12:50 PM new
From my experence Yahoo Fraud should be the name instead of Yahoo Auction.
I was taken for over $1500.00 and all I got was Legal Mombo Jumbo from Yahoo. They just told me how they had to protect the rights of the SOB's that are ripping people off on the internet.
I went back and looked on closed Auctions from Yahoo and it's almost epidemic at the way this is going on.
My seller was from London, UK so BEWARE!!!
Most are from overseas and want money sent WESTERN UNION.
Well it's my last time for Yahoo.
I haven't had this problem with EBAY yet.
posted on October 27, 2001 02:18:43 PM new
there have been discussions on sending money to eastern europe via western union ,i think they are in the buyer beware section
posted on October 27, 2001 05:11:56 PM new
Yep. Electronic high-end items like laptops, digital cameras. Listings typically show a seller with zero FB or nearly so, but in a US city and possibly even accepting credit cards. Newbie buyers go by Yahoo's size, figure they'll use their plastic and be protected, look at an incredibly low "buy it now" price of half street value for something represented as "new in box" so jump to make the bid before someone else sees it.
Then the seller turns out to be in Europe somewhere for the next month for a biz conference, has been taken ill, perhaps, needs funds in a hurry so requests the Western Union payment. Buyer, like an old lady outside a bank being shown a bag full of supposed "drug money from Cuba" by a flim flam artist, has his greed kick in, "Golly I don't want to miss this DEAL" and pays up.
Bye bye money. Yes, Yahoo should list details of this exact pattern in key selling categories, but THEY seem greedy to keep collecting their fees, I guess.
A few weeks back, after seeing what appeared to be a "classic" listing of this pattern, only a few days old, sold to a buyer who listed his email in his "About Me" page, I got righteous and emailed him to inquire how his purchase had gone and of course by reference warning him if he'd been asked to wire money to England unexpectedly. He responded that for weeks, over a couple hundred such listings, he'd been outbidding everyone in sight, or using BIN, to take all such listings out of action! Said he'd found exactly two suspicious ones out of hundreds that were legitimate and that the sellers had been completely supportive when he explained what he was up to.
My suspicion would be that Yahoo will eventually notice and delete all this guy's accounts.... too bad if they do. Me, I'm staying out of doing stuff like that, I want to keep quietly using their system in the few categories that still work for me.
posted on October 27, 2001 06:45:35 PM new
can you email other buyers like you can on ebay? I had a small problem with a seller and cannot figure out how to contact other buyers of this seller.
