On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:52:02 GMT, "Paul Vanasse"
wrote:


"K5JOE" wrote in message
gy.com...
I am seeing more and more Scams on the internet swap pages these days.
I thought I had checked out the last guy that I was buying a rig from
enough to send him or her a US Postal Money Order .. but I did not
check far enough.

If you want to see scams, you dont have to look too far. Ebay is riddled
with them.

73 de Paul

AR


Ebay IS a breeding ground for scams, In My Opinion...

Bob

I don't doubt that many fraudsters hang out on ebay, but I have done OK
so far. I usually check the seller's feedback rating before bidding, but
on the one occasion I forgot and discovered later that the seller had a
Zero rating (i.e., this was his first offering on ebay -- or the first
using that ID), everything was fine.

The closest I came to getting burned was on a $500 item, but the
seller's local police dept. got in touch with me before I had gotten
round to starting any serious investigation of my own; I got all my
money back. Even then, it may have been stupidity rather than criminal
intent on the seller's part: he offered for sale items that he did not
yet have in stock, and then found that he could not get them.

-=-
Alan AB2OS


On 06/27/03 10:00 am Robert Hawk put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

If you want to see scams, you dont have to look too far. Ebay is riddled
with them.

Hi,

No more of a breeding ground then the local hamfests, swap meets or local
newpapers
qth.com, eham.net arrl.org etc...

If I get taken at the local hamfest, you will never know about it, on Ebay
everyone hears
about a scam from the usenet.

It is easy to get caught up in auction 'excitement' and the thrill of
'winning'
we have to remember it is a purchase (or sale) just like buying a car or
ordering dinner out.

Feedback is the key, I have dealt with many new ebayers, even I was a new
ebay guy.
my first deal was a purchase for $ 400 from an established seller with 100 %
feedbacks.

Just ask a lot of questions on the items you want to buy, if you don't like
the answers, just pass it up.

Nice thing, if the item is not sold it can be relisted and you can get
another chance or
another seller will have what you want.

Did I tell you about the time that used car dealer sold me that car that was
driven by his mother ?

73 walt

Robert wrote:

Ebay IS a breeding ground for scams, In My Opinion...

Bob

Ebay is safe if you check your seller first. If he has negative
feedback check 'who and why'.I've had no problems with Buyers - "I gets
my money I ships." My only complaint is the number of "tire kickers" who
ask time consuming questions with no intention of bidding. But that
happens in stores too you just have to grin and bear it.

Walt wrote:

Hi,

No more of a breeding ground then the local hamfests, swap meets or local
newpapers
qth.com, eham.net arrl.org etc...

If I get taken at the local hamfest, you will never know about it, on Ebay
everyone hears
about a scam from the usenet.

It is easy to get caught up in auction 'excitement' and the thrill of
'winning'
we have to remember it is a purchase (or sale) just like buying a car or
ordering dinner out.

Feedback is the key, I have dealt with many new ebayers, even I was a new
ebay guy.
my first deal was a purchase for $ 400 from an established seller with 100 %
feedbacks.

Just ask a lot of questions on the items you want to buy, if you don't like
the answers, just pass it up.

Nice thing, if the item is not sold it can be relisted and you can get
another chance or
another seller will have what you want.

Did I tell you about the time that used car dealer sold me that car that was
driven by his mother ?

73 walt

Robert wrote:


Ebay IS a breeding ground for scams, In My Opinion...

Bob

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:20:31 -0400, Robert Cuthbert
wrote:
I have a friend who bid on a camera and won it. the seller had 100%
positive rating so he paid with paypal. The camera never showed up the
seller answered his email and said it was on the way.it never showed
up. When my friend checked his feedback again he had 19 negative feed
backs for not delivering his items. What he did was sell a few items
to get a positive rating and than he sold a lot of fictitious items.
My friend called his credit card company and stopped payment.Pay pal
emailed him and told him that is not the way to get his money back ,
but it was ok this time. The seller lives in Hawaii but is not Dale
Knight.

Ebay is safe if you check your seller first. If he has negative
feedback check 'who and why'.I've had no problems with Buyers - "I gets
my money I ships." My only complaint is the number of "tire kickers" who
ask time consuming questions with no intention of bidding. But that
happens in stores too you just have to grin and bear it.

Walt wrote:

Hi,

No more of a breeding ground then the local hamfests, swap meets or local
newpapers
qth.com, eham.net arrl.org etc...

If I get taken at the local hamfest, you will never know about it, on Ebay
everyone hears
about a scam from the usenet.

It is easy to get caught up in auction 'excitement' and the thrill of
'winning'
we have to remember it is a purchase (or sale) just like buying a car or
ordering dinner out.

Feedback is the key, I have dealt with many new ebayers, even I was a new
ebay guy.
my first deal was a purchase for $ 400 from an established seller with 100 %
feedbacks.

Just ask a lot of questions on the items you want to buy, if you don't like
the answers, just pass it up.

Nice thing, if the item is not sold it can be relisted and you can get
another chance or
another seller will have what you want.

Did I tell you about the time that used car dealer sold me that car that was
driven by his mother ?

73 walt

Robert wrote:


Ebay IS a breeding ground for scams, In My Opinion...

Bob



Edward Lewis KQ6DX

"Walt" wrote in message
...
Hi,

No more of a breeding ground then the local hamfests, swap meets or local
newpapers
qth.com, eham.net arrl.org etc...

If I get taken at the local hamfest, you will never know about it, on Ebay
everyone hears
about a scam from the usenet.


Its one thing to get screwed by a guy who you're looking in the eye and
probably doesn't live that far from your QTH than it is by some BS artist
the lives 3000 miles away, of whom your only recourse is to flame him on
Ebay or the NG's.

"Robert Hawk" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:52:02 GMT, "Paul Vanasse"
wrote:


"K5JOE" wrote in message
gy.com...
I am seeing more and more Scams on the internet swap pages these days.
I thought I had checked out the last guy that I was buying a rig from
enough to send him or her a US Postal Money Order .. but I did not
check far enough.

If you want to see scams, you dont have to look too far. Ebay is riddled
with them.

73 de Paul

AR


Ebay IS a breeding ground for scams, In My Opinion...

Bob

Paypal is the fertilizer used by scammers.