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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 9, 2012 1:03:54 GMT -6
Ebay continues its Turbo-Fraudulent activity to this day. They're actually much worse than they used to be. Meg Whitman should be proud. I 1st ran into Ebay's Turbo-Fraud policies during the early 2000's trying to buy aluminum baseball bats. Bat prices were routinely bidded up by the seller's, using false IDs. Ebay was fully aware of this practice, but claimed no knowledge of the practice to protect their profits. Ebay makes its exorbitant (and undeserved) profits off the fees paid by sellers. So they allow sellers tremendous leeway to perpetuate fraudulent sales. Next was Gold purchasing in the mid 2000's. Again, Ebay did everything possible to protect knowingly fraudulent sellers. I lost over $6,000 due to Ebay's perpetuation and protection of fraudulent sales and sellers. Unfortunately, the same practices have gotten even worse. Now Ebay allows sellers to fraudulently withdraw items for sale, under the guise that the item is "no longer available." The real reason, however, is that the seller wants to raise the price, after a bid has already been place. Under Ebay's fraudulent policies, buyers and sellers are obligated to make good on their offers and prices once items are listed and bids are made. But buyers are allowed to fraudulently withdraw items, if they claim that the item is no longer available. Of course, the equivalent is not available to buyers. Buyers are legally obligated to pay their bid price if theirs is the highest bid. But sellers can worm their way out of their obligation to sell the item if they claim it is no longer available. In doing so, a seller can end the bidding on an item that already has a legitimate bid--claiming the item is no longer available--and then re-list the item at a much higher price. This just happened to me today on a baseball bat. My highest bid for the item was $20. The item's listing price was still at $11.50. The Turbo-Fraudster listing the item was "draffkorn." Amazingly, this crook has 33 feedbacks, all of them positive. One reason for that is that a buyer cannot leave feedback when the a fraudster like draffkorn removes and relists his item. You can only leave feedback when you've purchased an item. So scumbags like draffkorn continue to get positive feedback, because all sources of negative feedback (like myself) are not permitted. In this manner, Ebay knowingly perpetuates completely fraudulent listings and actions--BY DESIGN. See item www.ebay.com/itm/Easton-Synergy-IMX-BZN1-34-31-Baseball-Bat-3-NEW-/250991781805?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7046a7adThis item was last listed at $11.50 (I was the high bidder). Now it's $115, due to this greedmeister and his fraudulent collusion with Ebay.
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Post by jeffolie on Feb 13, 2012 20:05:23 GMT -6
Ebay continues its Turbo-Fraudulent activity to this day. They're actually much worse than they used to be. Meg Whitman should be proud. I 1st ran into Ebay's Turbo-Fraud policies during the early 2000's trying to buy aluminum baseball bats. Bat prices were routinely bidded up by the seller's, using false IDs. Ebay was fully aware of this practice, but claimed no knowledge of the practice to protect their profits. Ebay makes its exorbitant (and undeserved) profits off the fees paid by sellers. So they allow sellers tremendous leeway to perpetuate fraudulent sales. Next was Gold purchasing in the mid 2000's. Again, Ebay did everything possible to protect knowingly fraudulent sellers. I lost over $6,000 due to Ebay's perpetuation and protection of fraudulent sales and sellers. Unfortunately, the same practices have gotten even worse. Now Ebay allows sellers to fraudulently withdraw items for sale, under the guise that the item is "no longer available." The real reason, however, is that the seller wants to raise the price, after a bid has already been place. Under Ebay's fraudulent policies, buyers and sellers are obligated to make good on their offers and prices once items are listed and bids are made. But buyers are allowed to fraudulently withdraw items, if they claim that the item is no longer available. Of course, the equivalent is not available to buyers. Buyers are legally obligated to pay their bid price if theirs is the highest bid. But sellers can worm their way out of their obligation to sell the item if they claim it is no longer available. In doing so, a seller can end the bidding on an item that already has a legitimate bid--claiming the item is no longer available--and then re-list the item at a much higher price. This just happened to me today on a baseball bat. My highest bid for the item was $20. The item's listing price was still at $11.50. The Turbo-Fraudster listing the item was "draffkorn." Amazingly, this crook has 33 feedbacks, all of them positive. One reason for that is that a buyer cannot leave feedback when the a fraudster like draffkorn removes and relists his item. You can only leave feedback when you've purchased an item. So scumbags like draffkorn continue to get positive feedback, because all sources of negative feedback (like myself) are not permitted. In this manner, Ebay knowingly perpetuates completely fraudulent listings and actions--BY DESIGN. See item www.ebay.com/itm/Easton-Synergy-IMX-BZN1-34-31-Baseball-Bat-3-NEW-/250991781805?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7046a7adThis item was last listed at $11.50 (I was the high bidder). Now it's $115, due to this greedmeister and his fraudulent collusion with Ebay. Yes, ebay has plenty of bad deals and rarely punishes sellers. I have gotten refunds over 90% of the times I have attempted to get refunds on ebay auction items I purchased ... but it is always a struggle with substantial delay and emotions. Returns at Costco or Sams have always gone smoothly for me while returns at many online sellers and venues have often required exacting patience and persistence. I have a 100% positive feedback for my over 800 feedback reports because I am an honest ebay participatant. Yet, within the last 2 weeks have had to create 3 negative feedbacks for sellers that were less than fair. One must shop around before buying on ebay because the prices and quality of items for sale on ebay many times are worse than other places to acquire items. Know your merchandise and prices before looking to transact on ebay because ebay should not be one's 1st stop for items.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 15, 2012 12:47:38 GMT -6
I'd love to leave bad feedback for the fraudster I mentioned before. But Ebay has no format for leaving bad feedback, unless you've purchased an item from that person.
I did successfully purchase an item that I received several days ago. I'll be leaving positive feedback for that seller, as well as making note that that person is one of the rare honest sellers.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 25, 2012 1:20:46 GMT -6
Another seller has now welched on a purchase I made on Ebay. His screen name is hq4sports. In this case I actually won the item I purchased and had already made a credit card payment. The deal was unusually good, so bought it on the "Buy-Now" option. But of course the deal was too good to be true. And though hq4sports had already received payment, it suddenly claimed it didn't have the item. How convenient, since this is one of the reasons Ebay freely accepts for a crooked seller who wants to cancel a sale. So the deal was cancelled over 24 hours after I'd already made the purchase. The real reason that the sale price was too low, and the hq4sports wanted to cancel deal after they'd already agreed to it. And since Ebay does everything possible to protect Sellers at the expense of buyers, hq4sports knows nothing will happen. And since it is impossible to leave negative feedback on Ebay unless you've already purchased an item from them, then Sellers can back out of deals without it ever appearing on their "Feedback" ratings. This particular slimeball seller has over 4,000 "positive" feedbacks, and NO negatives. Again, that's because only positive feedback can actually be left for a seller (or mis-seller), thus crooks like hq4sports continue to swindle and cheat Ebay buyers with impunity.
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Post by graybeard on Feb 25, 2012 10:33:40 GMT -6
I buy from ebay quite often, including Buy It Now, and can't remember the last time I got a bad deal.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 25, 2012 14:33:09 GMT -6
I buy from ebay quite often, including Buy It Now, and can't remember the last time I got a bad deal. Interesting, because this particular attempted purchase I'm referring to was a Buy-It-Now sale. hq4sportsAnd despite what the listing says, the item was not "sold." 24 hours after I'd already paid for the item via credit card, he claimed he didn't have the item. Do you think the $5 sale price had something to do with it? Naahhh. Couldn't be that. Because he's an "honest" seller. I know that because he told me was an honest seller.
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Post by graybeard on Feb 25, 2012 18:31:16 GMT -6
Was the $5 price possibly a typo?
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 25, 2012 23:46:52 GMT -6
Was the $5 price possibly a typo? I suspect it was. But Ebay rules don't allow sellers to cancel sales for that reason. However, they DO allow cancellations for the stated reason: "Seller does not have item." So whenever a crooked seller wants to cancel a sale because the price was too low, that's exactly the claim he makes. And that's what hq4sports did. Worse still, I contacted him at least 5 separate times. Each time he claimed he "made a mistake" in that he didn't have the item. I would have gladly paid $50 for the item, had he told me it was a typo. But he never said that. He continued to claim he didn't have it. I gave him 3 different options to correct the problem--all of which involved him providing me with a different bat with generally the same specifications--34"/31 oz.--carbon fiber composite, non-BBCOR certified. I gave him the name & location of a store in Northern California (Goetz Sporting Goods) where he could buy any one of the 3 different bats--2 were for $99 each and 1 was for $77. To me, this seemed like the least he could do to make good on a Buy-It-Now sale that I'd already won and paid for. But he refused. He did offer to give me a 33" bat instead, which I refused. He was well aware from my bidding history that I was only interested in a 34" bat. So he knew I wasn't going to accept that as a substitute. However, when he did offer his phony substitute, I asked him if he had an 34's--which I knew he DID have. He lied again, and said he did not--despite the fact that he was actively selling 34's on his Ebay site. In all of this, he never stated he'd made a mistake in the pricing. His only claim was that he "made a mistake," and that he didn't actually have the bat. And the fact that he listed it for only $5 had nothing to do with it. This seller is a liar. Unfortunately, many of the sellers on Ebay are just as bad. As I stated previously, this is the 2nd episode of this nature in 2 weeks that I've gone through. In the 1st case, the seller, "draffkorn", admitted that the reason he falsely claimed he "didn't have the item" was because he'd listed the price too low. Dealing with Ebay is like dealing with the mob. You may get a good deal. Or you may not. But even if a seller doesn't take your money, you may be out many hours of your time, which you are not compensated for. And if an Ebay seller pulls something like this, you have NO recourse. None. You can't leave negative feedback unless you've actually paid for an item. And then you can't leave it for at least 7 days. And then Ebay will try to run you through a bullshit resolution process--solely to try and protect the crooked seller's "reputation." That's why you see people with 4,150 positive feedbacks and 0 negatives. Ebay blocks negative feedback through any means possible. They'll even remove negative feedback (if you can actually find a way to leave any).
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