From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 15:16:39 EDT
I agree
Ebay is a great place to do business, but you gotta do your homework. It
is not really a place for the faint hearted!
.Carlos de la Puente wrote:
>
> I would re-phrase that to: he "rooked" a few fools.
>
> Anyone who buys an expensive laptop from someone with no prior history and
> who has $50,000+ worth of auctions (all ending within a 3 day period) is
> nothing but a fool.
>
> The tools are there for buyers to use. They can check on the seller's
> feedback, they can see what else they have for auction, they can look up
> their contact information, they can call the seller, etc. Anyone with an
> ounce of gray matter between their ears would have realized this was a scam,
> you can't fault eBay for this.
>
> So, come again? how does this make eBay a bad place to shop? If these buyers
> are so foolish to buy from someone like that, I have a few bridges and a lot
> of land in Florida I could sell to them.
>
> C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bell <bytehead_at_bellatlantic.net>
> To: TP List <tp750_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 3:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Example of Fraud on e-bay
>
> >Another user, compu007 JUST rooked 5 people on ebay.
> >Do a search on his name with ebay's search form and
> >you will see.
> >
> >At 12:00 AM 09/02/1999 -0400, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >> Randy...
> >>either way, its the dark side of the coin..
> >>saw lots of this on AOL when they had the trading boards up.. the sad
> thing
> >>is that there are people who fall for that stuff.. Randal Whittle wrote:
> At
> >>05:33 PM 08/31/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>> For those of you who are tired of reading the e-bay flame series, here
> is
> >>> something to ponder..
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >><&item=150978232>http://c
> >>&item=150978232 I admit Bill, that when I see someone with a "0"
> >>feedback rating and a
> >>note at the bottom saying you can buy any one of these outright for $600
> >>(perhaps it was a typo--maybe he meant $6000?), that I have cause to pause
> >and
> >>wonder (and the bidding itself is indeed up to $5,200. Other than
> >>your suspicion though, how can you say this is
> >>necessarily an
> >>example of "fraud" on eBay? If these things really aren't legit, I
> >>would be more inclined to
> >>suggest
> >
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