Another too good to be true item??

Thats a depressing thought, taking a bridge in NYC, and ending up in NYC. But then again, the other choices from NYC is more NY, CT, or NJ. Except for CT, the others are equally as depressing. Sad to think of SW CT as the best choice. How about an airport, have one of them for sale?
 
As I recall, somebody here in Arizona once bought a bridge ... that had previously connected one part of London to another :)
 
Superburban said:
A Hijacked account would likely be reported to Ebay before any money can be transferred, or at least any significant amount of money.
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Ebay accounts get hijacked all the time. I think they target accounts that aren't very active. The owner may not care enough about their account to even read the warning emails.

Or something. Somehow they pull it off.
 
MikeInOr said:
It is evidently interesting enough for you to be post #160! o_O
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Bob Korves said:
You too. Would you like to buy a bridge? It is a really nice bridge, connects one part of New York City to another. One only, will sell fast. No refunds...
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Come on, MikeInOr got you on that one! You either have to admit it or come up with something better than that! ;)
 
Well the Dividing head disappeared from my "Purchase History" this morning and a problem ticket with the vendor was automatically created in my ebay account... no communication from the fraud department though (I doubt I will actually receive any). The problem ticket states "Item failed to arrive" and "Seller will respond by June 27" is listed in the ticket. So it sounds like I will receive my refund on the 27th when the seller fails to respond.

Other purchasers might want to consider opening a ticket if it is past their promised delivery date.

Hidden deep down in the bowels of ebay is this page... if anyone is interested:
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/resolving-issues-sellers/avoiding-seller-fraud?id=4024

I used the "report an issue" to report the seller as most likely being a scammer. I reported 4 other sellers at the same time, they all had the same products at the 80% off retail pricing on all of them and the seemingly random character names of the same length. I forget the other sellers I reported so I can't look them up to see if they have been shut down too. I wonder if ebay is going to automatically issue refunds to all the other buyers? Not just dividing head buyers but many other items all with multiple available in the the auction.

I have been buying and selling on Ebay since you could view ALL of the auctions on their sight in a single VERY long page (Jan 1998). My experience is they do not look out for anyone but themselves... unless you call them on something. Only recently have they actually had a way to contact them about a problem... and they still like to hide it as much as possible!
 
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It just dawned on me that people buying items that they know have a good chance of being a scam are rewarding the scammers and perpetuating the problem. Thanks for being shamelessly greedy and making the world a worse place! ;)
 
ptsmith said:
It just dawned on me that people buying items that they know have a good chance of being a scam are rewarding the scammers and perpetuating the problem. Thanks for being shamelessly greedy and making the world a worse place! ;)
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Alternatively, we're taking money out Ebay/Paypal's hands in a way that would result in them fixing their scammer problem and better locking them out in the future. Short term, we're rewarding the scammers, long term this likely leads to the end of the problem.
 
ptsmith said:
It just dawned on me that people buying items that they know have a good chance of being a scam are rewarding the scammers and perpetuating the problem. Thanks for being shamelessly greedy and making the world a worse place! ;)
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I don't believe the scammer will actually get anything out of their efforts?!?!?!? My best guess is that ebay will be the ones that might end up with the buyers money if they shut down a scammer and the buyer does not file a claim??????

Ebay is very closed and secretive about how they actually work and what they do about scammers. I am very curious about what they do when they do find an obvious scammer seller!?!?!?! I have dealt with Ebay enough to know that all they really care about is collecting their cut! I am very interested to know if the other dividing head purchasers are contacted by ebay and offered a refund? (I really doubt they will be!)

As a programmer I know a routine to search for sellers that fit the profile of this scammer would be easy to implement... but they don't? I was easily able to find 4 additional scammer sellers by searching for other sellers that had the same product at the same ridiculously low price and all their feed back is based on sub $1 purchases. To me this is a research project about how ebay actually does work... something I couldn't do without the feedback from the others on this board that also hit the buy button.

My hunch is that the scammers aren't really the root of the problem. I purpose that the real problem is that ebay enables these scammers and takes their cut of the profit!
 
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