Comments on: More eBay frauds

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:26:25 +0000

I just re-listed my item for the 3rd time. This time, though, I went into the advanced selling options and found a useful section. I chose to disallow any bidders who:

- has a negative seller rating
– has no paypal account
– registered with a non-US address
– checked “I am a Nigerian scammer” when joining Ebay (ok, kidding)

I’m really hoping things work out this time around. You’d think in 2007, things like this would be clobbered by clever code. No so, apparently.

One last thing: my brother alerted me to the “second chance” option after the auction ends. This gives the person behind the winning bidder (ie, scammer) a chance to win the item. Of course, they, too, could be a scammer. Maybe that will help.

This whole process has made me increasingly paranoid. Good luck with your ebay endeavors. Nice z-index article, by the way. I found it very helpful.

By: Aleksandar

Aleksandar — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:47:02 +0000

At least you have options. Since I’m selling this from Serbia, I can either try to sell it here (where there is no much market for high-end laptops) or continue trying over eBay.

What really irks me is that I could sell this while I was in UK and postage is much less there than sending from Serbia. And all these cheaters ruined every single attempt. Scumbags.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:30:32 +0000

Same “exact” thing happened to me two days ago. Second shot at selling my laptop. All is good until the final minute. Boom! The fake buyer converges and outbids the legit bidders by $100 USD.

The rest of the story went the same way yours did. So, what will you do? I would consider using craigslist or something, but that really limits my pool of buyers to my small city of Pittsburgh. Have you found anything else out there?

Life sucks and then you Ebay.