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Re: Ebay acution - Potential Fraud?
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lugnet.market.auction
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:14:26 GMT
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Mike Poindexter wrote:
> As for fraud, let's be real here: he is an ebay seller, which means he has
> his credit card on file with ebay. The purchaser is insured through ebay
> via Lloyd's of London (a highly respectable insurance firm) for up to $100,
> IIRC. To try to use fraud, well, the buyer will not be out any money in the
> end and the seller will be a fugitive from justice for a few bucks. Sorry,
> but the most I have seen in ebay fraud is deadbeat bidders. Most sales
> fraud comes from people mislisting their auctions because they don't really
> know what they are selling (like MB being passed off as Lego).
A couple things. First, grandfathered eBay sellers may not have a credit
card on file. Second, while I don't know how things have changed, I have
been burned by one seller (who burned a bunch of other people). I've
given up trying to recover my money, it was only $35 or so, and I've
already spent at least that in effort.
Note also that the instance being complained about was a picture of a
set with instructions and box, when the "borrowing" seller did not have
a box (by statement in the description).
What I would do if I found someone linking to one of my pictures, if
that picture was no longer needed for my auction is to change it to
something rather obnoxious, since the person IS stealing my web
bandwidth.
> Sorry it ruffles your feathers. You can either accept that it will happen
> and just learn to let it go, or say it shouldn't happen (and you are mostly
> right there) and make it a personal crusade. Either way, most people don't
> consider it a big deal when they put the pic up on their own space, so you
> will be hard pressed to get any substantial support for your cause. I don't
> even really sympathize with your cause, even though I feel you are right.
> Unfortunate, but that is the way it is.
So you don't think copyright violation is a big deal???
--
Frank Filz
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| True, some sellers have been grandfathered in, but how many people who are going to do fraudulent activity have an account that old? I would venture to say that most people who would have done that probably already have. Fraud is a big deal, but (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Ebay acution - Potential Fraud?
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| Well, I understand this happening. I have done it to other people's pictures and they have done it to mine. I never considered it a major problem, but I have only once had an email from somebody. That person was mad and I told him it happens all the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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