Ebay Scams
Even the most technical-savvy people get scammed. Russell Beattie got phished last week, and now he’s getting a barrage of scam/spams. I had this happen to me last month. A nigerian scammer won an auction of mine, and asked me to not use pay pal. He had the audacity to use a netherland’s address/yahoo account, then proceed to ask me to send it to his son as a gift down in Nigeria.
After contacting Ebay, they were pretty apathetic about it. All they did was refund me the percentage of what I would’ve had to pay if the person actually did pay, but they did not offer to refund me the listing fee, and wouldn’t even let me relist the item. They told me to use the “second-chance” offer to other bidders, so basically, I would have to sell my product to someone else for a lower price. If Ebay isn’t incited or angry about scammers infiltrating their site, how am I supposed to believe they even care to police themselves that well.