topic Re: Scamming on Ebay in Selling

Scamming on Ebay

shaggy*one — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:12:54 GMT

Please beware Sellers. There is an eBay user by the user name REMOVED of Victoria randomly buying but not paying or responding to messages. Best option is REPORT this idiot. DO NOT leave any form of feedback as its marked as positive feedback only. Just repost idiot and open unpaid item case and back the loser 😉 hope this helps. I understand the frustration but this tosser just wants bites

Cheers
Shaggy one

Re: Scamming on Ebay

shaggy*one — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:24:33 GMT

Sorry that's report and block 🙂

Re: Scamming on Ebay

iainlouden — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:35:29 GMT

Woo...there sure are a lot of unhappy sellers due to this buyer...have to assume many sellers are not blocking buyers with 2 strikes.

Surely most of the unpaid sellers have lodged an unpaid item case so why is Ebay allowing this goose to remain on Ebay?

Thanks for the heads up and adding to my BBL.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

clarry100 — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:54:54 GMT

Thanks for the warning shaggy*one.

Wow! This just shows the total imbalance by ebay in the way they treat sellers as compared to buyers.

If a seller had such a track record they would have been banned off the site long ago.

By the way this post will no doubt be edited by the mods in here very soon to remove reference to the name.

Its against boards policy to name and shame on here.

There is a Facebook page where it can be done however.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

iainlouden — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:00:32 GMT

For the 125 feedbacks received as a buyer over the past 12 months more than 100 were complaints about non payment !...and how many more sellers didn't leave feedback knowing it can only be a positive?.

Ebay....you demand that sellers dot their i's and cross their T's so how about you get your own house in order and get rid of this serial non payer instead of just protecting them by removing their ID from the OP.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

clarry100 — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:03:20 GMT

I have posted this on the Facebook page and drawn it to the attention of Tim Davies.

He still has senior contacts within ebay and may be able to get this problem dealt with for once and for all.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

saarzi — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:33:51 GMT

Which Fabook page? Im on two and cant see your post.... wondering if theres a good one Im missing out on 🙂 thanks

Re: Scamming on Ebay

justajunk — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:12:15 GMT

@iainlouden wrote:
Woo...there sure are a lot of unhappy sellers due to this buyer...have to assume many sellers are not blocking buyers with 2 strikes.
Surely most of the unpaid sellers have lodged an unpaid item case so why is Ebay allowing this goose to remain on Ebay?
Thanks for the heads up and adding to my BBL.

Unpaid item strikes can be appealed. With relative ease too from what I've read.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

*tippy*toes* — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:26:11 GMT

@saarzi wrote:
Which Fabook page? Im on two and cant see your post.... wondering if theres a good one Im missing out on 🙂 thanks

The one Clarry100 is talking about is set so admin have to approve the messages before they become public. It can take days for them to get around to it. One of mine took nearly 2 weeks to appear.

Clarry, can you PM me the details please?

Re: Scamming on Ebay

lyndal1838 — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:58:54 GMT

@justajunk wrote:

Unpaid item strikes can be appealed. With relative ease too from what I've read.

The first strike is automatically removed by ebay as soon as they are asked by the buyer.

Subsequent strikes sometimes take a bit more effort to have them removed, but not a lot from the reports (and experiements conducted by boardies).

Re: Scamming on Ebay

luculia-5 — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:18:38 GMT

Yes it's against ebay policy to name and shame but it's ok for bogus buyers to leave negative and untrue feedback against sellers. Etsy have more respect and consideration for their sellers and that is why I'm leaving ebay for good.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

designers*n*more — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:34:15 GMT

Had newbie (from Ferntree Gully, Vic) buy from me, plus bought about 20-30 items from other sellers, no payment no contact and no response. Contacted other sellers to see if they were paid, nope. So of the 10 sellers I contacted none received payment, we all opened UIDs, yet this buyer has not been made NARU. So they are free to go and bid, win and not pay on as many auctions as they like! System is a joke, regardless of whether you have blocks in place, the buyer should be booted off!

Re: Scamming on Ebay

cathyjoyjoy — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 06:43:37 GMT

So are you saying that you have evidence that buyers with a UPI opened against them may not actually get a strike? OR if this buyer was a newbie, then perhaps bidding/buying was still happening while the "strikes" we're being finalised? ........... over 10 UPIs yet still able to buy ....... sigh

Re: Scamming on Ebay

iainlouden — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:54:56 GMT

Cathy..10 unpaid items is nothing compared to the buyer the OP complained about who has had over 100 unpaid item purchases in 12 months according to the angry feedback comments left for her and you'd have to assume most of those unpaid purchases resulted in strikes.

I have had a buyer blocked from bidding on my tems due to too many strikes so I know the system does work generally, but when a buyer has 100 unpaid item cases then you have to wonder what is going on that gives her apparent immunity.

It's not as if she is only buying from newbies who don't know about putting in blocks for unpaid strikes...she also buys from many high feedback sellers who would have those blocks in place.

I have asked Ebay a few times to investigate this particular seller and have been told she will be investigated...time will tell if any action is taken but meanwhile her unpaid purchases just keep growing.

Re: Scamming on Ebay

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:47:39 GMT

Try over 800 unpaid items and still not restricted. Has been reported multiple times and is still allowed to continue. At least half would have known to open a dispute. There are probably hundreds more that didn't bother to leave feedback.