29-12-2014 08:56 AM - edited 29-12-2014 08:58 AM
What is it going to take to get this site to be pro-active and remove scammers?
There are thousands of members being ripped of each week,(if they simply gave up as these are listed in
categories without PP protection).
PP would be making a profit if they removed the money from the scammers accounts and then didn't release it
to the buyers,(after all there is no PP protection in Go-carts or Pocket Bikes).
With just 4 scammers below "selling" over 1500 items it could mean some of those and others that they tell
might never buy here again).
Completed "sales" over $5,000 : 251764719472 - 180 items "sold"
Over $11,000 with 15 items and growing : 281541602952 plus $2,500 on one item in completed - over
400 "sold"
Some of the ones below have been reported since the 7th of this month and the listings are still sitting there
in completed,
8 items,over $7,000 and growing : 281541489835 - over 200 sold
Over $5,000 in completed : 131384072546
Over $14,000 in completed : 331418415740 - 860 "sold"
Over $3,000 in completed : 171595679657
Over $5,000 in various scam items :221635381623
Over $3,000 "sold" and over $1,000 in completed from as far back as the 7th,(reported on a regular basis since
then).
The same with this one : 321603982273 , over $6,000 sold in completed.
This one is still up as well,over $20,000 in completed : 141488104893 , they now have over 40,(only 25 count
as there must be multi buyers).
A new one in go-karts with 13 items : 141488104893 ,gone through to completed and over 476 items "sold" for
over $8,000
New one in pocket bikes with 5 items : 371223634693 , none sold yet,but they could end ripping of members
for $1000's
on 29-12-2014 02:24 PM
The Makita seller has been NARU'd!!! Sadly, another will just take his place 😞
on 29-12-2014 03:06 PM
More reported listings gone, so they mustn't have anything better to do today. At least they are taking notice.......today.
on 29-12-2014 07:10 PM
I started using a different way of reporting by reporting the members,(not the listing).
That way they'll look at each scammer and the listed items,(I included two in each report).
I've tried it before but it was a different "process" before,(I used to get the automated generic Emails which went
nowhere).
It seems to be working this time as I received 4 Emails in regards to the scammers I reported,(all of them where
reported yesterday and they where more positive in nature).
It looks to be working as they are removing some of the scammers,
So it would be good if this work but it does make the report link even more useless.
on 29-12-2014 08:13 PM
This could be part of why the report button doesn't work-
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y14/m12/i16/s01
on 30-12-2014 07:52 AM
@2011.narelle wrote:This could be part of why the report button doesn't work-
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y14/m12/i16/s01
That's what happened when they shut down the Canadian Trust & Safety centre in Canada,(scam listings used to
be removed within hours of being reported).
Afterwards they would take days,weeks and some where never removed,(which has been the case ever since).
They have a habit of trying to put the "blame" on users as they should be reporting the scam listings,(they then
make it pointless in doing so as they have no idea why scam listings are reported).
Another new one in Go-carts,(19 scam items with well over $1000 in "sales" already) :121530927208
on 30-12-2014 06:25 PM
Looks like the item attached to that latest number has been removed as I got a not found for it.
Everything I reported yesterday has gone except 3 items. 151515583853 had 8 similar listings in go karts which were all removed, but for some reason they left this one.
These 2 are in pocket bikes, 400833081219 and they don't want to remove them either for some reason. The seller has 21,115 feedback, 98.8% and 200 negs in the last year for fake or poor quality items.
on 30-12-2014 07:28 PM
@i-love-my-sheep wrote:Looks like the item attached to that latest number has been removed as I got a not found for it.
They removed that listing but left the other 17 alone: 111560332808
Everything I reported yesterday has gone except 3 items. 151515583853 had 8 similar listings in go karts which were all removed, but for some reason they left this one.
They all should've been removed by now,
These 2 are in pocket bikes, 400833081219 and they don't want to remove them either for some reason. The seller has 21,115 feedback, 98.8% and 200 negs in the last year for fake or poor quality items.
It's always being diffucult for them to take action on these types of account,(in the eyes of eBay they don't
see anything wrong as they are still within their parameters,so wont remove them).
on 30-12-2014 10:11 PM
Check the description out on this fake item in pocket bikes (if you can make sense of it LOL)! Basically, if you don't give them 5 star feedback immediately after purchase, they won't send the item!!! I think that's what I read it as anyway. 181627198614
Another new addition to poket bikes. 171622072687
Both of them only have 1 listing at the moment......
on 30-12-2014 10:18 PM
on 02-01-2015 02:51 PM
eBay need to allocate more resources for this.
They also need subject matter experts (in-house or external).
For example, 390751445361 are fake 2N53 point contact (ie. historic) transistors for $1000. They need someone that knows the alpha gain characteristics of PCT and its relationship to beta gain. The beta gain and leakage figures presented are consistent only with alloy-type BJT (bipolar junction transistors), certainly not PCT. The vendor has been made aware of this (and how to test PCT very simply).
Joe.