ChatterBank1 min ago
Ebay
Answers
No best answer has yet been selected by slimfandango. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've never seen anything like it on ebay. I was actually looking for an ipod myself.
-His 'feedbacks' all look suspect. They're almost all for 'trainers'. Like each feedback buyer basically only buys trainers! Some give feedback that suggests they were pleased that the item came so quickly from China...but the buyers were not only IN China, they received the item and left feedback within 2-3 days of auction end! Amazing! He's set up ALL the feedback himself. He set up an account, left it dormant for a year, then built up a bunch of feedback, then started trading.
-The thing that really amazed me was his use of image hosting as the icing on the cake. If you click his links for 'payment methods' etc, it takes you to an image that he has got ebay to host, which looks like a bunch of text (but it's really an image) which says that the safest method of payment is bank wire transfer. He must be making a fortune out of this, he'll take the money, then set up another account and do it all again. Be very afraid!
Morals
Always check the feedback
Always pay with paypal
there are 2 types of people, gullible people and non gullible people. Lots of gullible people will be tempted if the bargain seems good, they just don't know what question to ask themselves and what to check "would it be possible for someone to rip me off here, how can he sell them so cheaply". That's just life. And ebay can't monitor all sales. What really *****es me off though, is that I wrote to them about this guy 20 hours ago and they did nothing, let the sales all run (the guy is running under various other names). That's a lot of people losing a lot of money in a system that ebay sets up in a way that accomodates them.
Doesn't teach me anything except to lower my lowish opinion of ebay.