On the 1st of December, I blogged about a eBay Rip off: i_love_bargain who didn't deliver the item I ordered more then a month before which ended with myself leaving negative feedback. Well maybe not! The seller later provided a postage tracking number to ebay and ebay removed the feedback I left because the item was marked "delivered" on their system!!!!

 

On checking the tracking details provided by i_love_bargain with Australia Post, my item was delivered to an address in North Melbourne. That would be fine if I lived at the address! I live 10km north in Glenroy!

System Weakness!

On investigation, this points out a weakness in the ebay system, that if you provide any valid tracking number, say from some other customers delivery to ebay's delivery tracking system the item is marked as delivered. The lack of vetting is outstanding and leads me to think how insecure ebay's system is if they didn't do the background checks for something so simple.

 

In my case this weakness led to my negative feedback being removed and consequently ebay became a platform for misleading others by nulling feedback, Awesome ey!

 

I have put this to ebay, they said I was no longer entitled to a ebay money back guarantee!! I never asked for a refund in my message to them... Well scripted monkeys???

To date, ebay have not expressed interest in closing their weakness that leaves all users vulnerable to attack.