Wolfchen
Ace of dogma
Google "fraud" :
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain.
E.g. obtaining money through making false - misleading statements.
Seen too many warning posts about bad Ebay sellers over the last 6 months to ignore them as just another user axe to grind; quoting one immature member on Superbikes.net.
Been on "good" bike forums like ours and the growing list of buyer complaints about the epidemic scale of ebay seller fraud takes your breath away.
Hey if its not my imagination once-mighty ebay is going through a severe midlife crisis with shyster sellers who take our money and then don't ship or your part arrives completely useless & Not-as-described. Like my Radian gas tank that arrived with old, not-pictured damage in 2009. Ebay promises much & then it doesn't deliver to its buyers.
Could relate my recent tale of getting-a-bad-wire-harness via deception woe but then some people may not understand the meaning of deliberate seller fraud. In my experience, as a 100% feedback Buyer with over a 100+ transactions, its getting to be a bad joke doing business with these nasties.
Poor Admin. Decisions: Default Corporate Stupidity
Its not just the money, its huge blocks of time & wasted effort, delays. Most of the time one gets their money back via dispute resolution.
Then there are cases where ebay sides with the seller over admin. time limits; like when a seller deliberately doesn't send a Buyer Invoice & conveniently ignores the seller's blatantly false claim of not getting paid.
Meanwhile the seller pockets any cashier's check or money order until AFTER the dust has cleared.
This is outright corp. hypocrisy, theft & executive stupidity at its worst. Why?
Because ebay resolution only deals with Credit Card & PayPal issues. Nice.
That way they get their final value fee, no matter what. Grrr!
I've heard well-intentioned comments: "Buyer beware" "Move on etc"
These don't address the issue and don't warn our members so they won't get burned.
For myself; I've almost quit using ebay over this latest outrage.
They turned a blind eye to this guy's unsavory practices.
AG's office in Calif. won't touch ripoff ebayers saying, "These are civil cases"
Yeah right - since when is seller fraud merely a civil case?
PM me if you want the ebay seller's user name.
He's getting quite a rep on bike forums.
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain.
E.g. obtaining money through making false - misleading statements.
Seen too many warning posts about bad Ebay sellers over the last 6 months to ignore them as just another user axe to grind; quoting one immature member on Superbikes.net.
Been on "good" bike forums like ours and the growing list of buyer complaints about the epidemic scale of ebay seller fraud takes your breath away.
Hey if its not my imagination once-mighty ebay is going through a severe midlife crisis with shyster sellers who take our money and then don't ship or your part arrives completely useless & Not-as-described. Like my Radian gas tank that arrived with old, not-pictured damage in 2009. Ebay promises much & then it doesn't deliver to its buyers.
Could relate my recent tale of getting-a-bad-wire-harness via deception woe but then some people may not understand the meaning of deliberate seller fraud. In my experience, as a 100% feedback Buyer with over a 100+ transactions, its getting to be a bad joke doing business with these nasties.
Poor Admin. Decisions: Default Corporate Stupidity
Its not just the money, its huge blocks of time & wasted effort, delays. Most of the time one gets their money back via dispute resolution.
Then there are cases where ebay sides with the seller over admin. time limits; like when a seller deliberately doesn't send a Buyer Invoice & conveniently ignores the seller's blatantly false claim of not getting paid.
Meanwhile the seller pockets any cashier's check or money order until AFTER the dust has cleared.
This is outright corp. hypocrisy, theft & executive stupidity at its worst. Why?
Because ebay resolution only deals with Credit Card & PayPal issues. Nice.
That way they get their final value fee, no matter what. Grrr!
I've heard well-intentioned comments: "Buyer beware" "Move on etc"
These don't address the issue and don't warn our members so they won't get burned.
For myself; I've almost quit using ebay over this latest outrage.
They turned a blind eye to this guy's unsavory practices.
AG's office in Calif. won't touch ripoff ebayers saying, "These are civil cases"
Yeah right - since when is seller fraud merely a civil case?
PM me if you want the ebay seller's user name.
He's getting quite a rep on bike forums.
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