Ebay Any One?

[Atrocities]

Man I had no idea that was going on. I know that Vancouver PD just busted a guy for selling stolen goods over Ebay, and that down in North Bend they busted a bunch of mexican nationals, illegals here, for selling stollen goods, but robbing people when they show up to sell their stuff.... man thats F***ed up!

*why stupid criminals get caught*
1. They use their real names when bidding on items that they later steal from their owners at the meeting.
2. They use a bogus email, but their IP gives them away.
3. They show up expecting to steal the item when it is they who are about to get robbed.
4. They rebid the item they just stoled on EBay and show up to sell/rob the new bidder who just happens to be an under cover PD officer with lots of back up.

[geoschmo]

Personally I think Ebay is great for buyers. They've kind of been sticking it to the sellers recently on the fees, but I guess it's the price you pay for access to a world full of customers.

If you only bid on stuff from sellers with good feedback ratings and you'll have no problem. If something looks too good to be true it is. That's true for Ebay like it is for anything else. I don't think it shold be Ebay's responsibility to police that sort of stuff any more then they do now. Read the sellers feeddback before you buy. A guy can't get hundreds or thousands of positive ratings by ripping people off.

And try to remember if you get ripped off, it's not Ebay ripping you off, it's the seller.

[LordAxel]

Also se4 deluxe is 9.99 now on the strat first website

[Fyron]

I only bid on items from sellers that have thousands of good ratings.

[NullAshton]

My family hasn't had any problems on ebay. Though, we either may have just been lucky, or know how to not get scammed.

[Noble713]

Wow....I've never had any problems with Paypal, and very few with Ebay sellers or buyers. Ebay was my first choice for finding CDs for cheap, but now I use Amazon marketplace.