topic Re: Serial Offender in Buying

Serial Offender

cbccollectables — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:51:51 GMT

Just curious what eBay does about someone who continues to sell items (albeit at a very low price)but never actually sends the items. She has only got 5 transactions....all negative for the same problem. Looks like we have all lodged claims, just wondering if anything will happen to stop her re offending?

Re: Serial Offender

horizon1907 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:09:41 GMT

Do you have an item number ?

Re: Serial Offender

fred_fred_2004 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:34:14 GMT

just look at his feedback left 🙂

Re: Serial Offender

trusteduserid — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:47:11 GMT

More to the question- when will people learn to check feedback, obviously -5 is not a good rating!

Re: Serial Offender

horizon1907 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:48:08 GMT

Absolutely appalling. This is a classic example where Ebay should just step in and cancel the account. They are most likely to start another though. 😞

Re: Serial Offender

*crikey*mate* — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:04:28 GMT

Oh my goodness!

I have NEVER seen a negative 5 member!

surely something must have gone wrong?

They have all happened in the same week.... sales on same day - May 18, and no online activity since then in that account, anyway

Maybe they died - that has happened before.....

Or maybe they have already abandoned that account and opened another.....

Re: Serial Offender

trusteduserid — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:53:00 GMT

Good point about the May 18th part, it is hard to blame the OP or any of the others that made a transaction in this case.

I myself though have never bought from a seller with no feedback whatsoever, to do so would be looking for trouble for me. I would much rather pay more for the item from a different seller of forget the item altogether. Each to their own.

Looks like all but one seems to be getting refunded, but after reading the other feedback I am pretty sure that last buyer would have clued on (if not already onto PayPal). Not much harm done in this case but I agree something needs to be done about these sellers.

Why is their account not suspended by now? Even blind fredy can see the seller is a fake. However, I am pretty sure that eBay ~~doesn't care~~ has a reason. lol

Re: Serial Offender

*crikey*mate* — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:53:51 GMT

the feedback only started rolling in on June 4 - eBay doesn't do a whole lot of anything in a hurry....

and pfft - I always make good points..... LOLOLOLOL

Re: Serial Offender

2106greencat — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:50:24 GMT

Could be a genuine problem with the account holder I think as Crikey said.

I mean, if you are going to scam people for money, you would think you would make it worth your while - the idea is to sell a few big ticket items, quick as you can and run - little bitty amounts like that wouldn't be worth the effort or risk..