@johnsfakinos wrote:
I have seen an increase if fraudulent listings and the perpetrators are getting away with stealing at eBay’s expense, this would no doubt concern eBay because they seem to be performing these crimes with no ramification for their actions which simply drives them to continue.
One example is item 352614820763 is a just a copy and paste of item no 252746373635. From this you can see how simple it is to copy and paste another listing at a reduced price and receive money at the buyer’s expense. I realize that eBay will cover the loss but the purchasers lose out because they thought they had purchased a bargain and after a period of time of days or even weeks, receive the bad news that the item is not coming. I have been studying the different types of fraudulent behavior and there are clearly some steps that eBay could perform to significantly reduce these fraudulent transactions from occurring. I consider this a very serious issue and am willing to participate in detecting and therefore deleting fraudulent listings as soon as possible before the crime occurs. I have reported approximately 30 or 40 fraudulent listings in the last few days alone which acts as an indicator as to how many are actually occurring in eBay globally each day and will no doubt exponentially continue to grow if new measures are not put into place.
One of the key indicators of fraudulent behavior is that these criminals join eBay just a day or two before listing an item at a ridiculously lower price than the item that they have copied and pasted from, receiving the money via PayPal and then repeating the process and rejoining under a new name. So it would seem that just one positive step to reducing this flow is to regulate the activity at this stage. Perhaps every new item listed from a new eBay seller to be checked for the obvious signs of fraudulence. If eBay programmers sent an automatically generated list of every new item for sale (obviously only from new members or those with no prior sales or those with less than 5 sales) to a group of screeners, I have no doubt this would greatly decrease fraudulent listings. Fraudulent sales affect eBay financially but more importantly the reputation and reliability in that if a member makes a purchase then he or she has the confidence in knowing they will receive it. Could you please send this message expressing my concerns to the appropriate managing department heads. Kind Regards John Sfakinos
Ebay already do regulate sellers at this stage. It is the mandatory 21 day hold on the proceeds of a sale made by a new id. The 21 days means there is plenty of time for buyers to lodge disputes, should the item not arrive, or not meet the listed description. If problems are occuring, it is not because of ebay, but because of buyers who have not familiarised themselves with the protections ebay offer, or are too slack to follow up when problems do occur.
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