Ebay Any One?

Gandalf Parker · #1 August 27th, 2006, 11:06 AM

In our area its gotten much worse. We have people looking for locals with large or expensive items to bid on so they can rob the person. Local police is recommending that any meetings should occur somewhere with guards. Such as.. "To make this easier why dont we just meet at my bank"

Atrocities · #2 August 27th, 2006, 11:13 AM

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 · #3 August 27th, 2006, 12:06 PM

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 · #4 August 27th, 2006, 12:48 PM

Also se4 deluxe is 9.99 now on the strat first website

Fyron · #5 August 27th, 2006, 02:02 PM

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

NullAshton · #6 August 27th, 2006, 02:06 PM

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 · #7 August 27th, 2006, 02:21 PM

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.

Baron Munchausen · #8 August 27th, 2006, 04:55 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
In our area its gotten much worse. We have people looking for locals with large or expensive items to bid on so they can rob the person. Local police is recommending that any meetings should occur somewhere with guards. Such as.. "To make this easier why dont we just meet at my bank"

Do you mean going to see a seller and just taking what they were trying to sell? I've heard of 'steal to order' scams where people put up an eBay sale and then go steal the thing they were selling once they have a winning bid. It's amazing how brazen criminals can be.

Gandalf Parker · #9 August 27th, 2006, 06:28 PM

Working with CafePress shops the biggest problem I have with Ebay is that no one wants to do a real auction anymore. They want to SELL things on ebay instad of auctioning them. Its a real pain to get them to try it without theminimum bid and [censored] even though they can make more that way.

Gandalf Parker

Atrocities · #10 August 27th, 2006, 06:43 PM

What I hate most, apart for the scamming, is that you place a bid for an item, and then have too keep bidding because someone has a minimum bid set. WTF! THe buy it now feature is neat but like GP said, takes away from the auction aspect. Ebay is more a big on line garage sale now. "I give you dollar!"