More "Disclaimers of Authenticity"

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Posted By: steve k

Don't let scammers with "good looking" private feedback fool you. Much of this feedback comes from their own shill accounts bidding on their own merchandise. They don't want you to see that it's the same account(s) always winning their lots. When their shill account wins the bid, I don't think they are going to give themselves a neg.

You can do the math - even with the ebay fees, etc., if they rope-in one good sucker every once in a while, they are still making money. After building up a bunch of this "positive feedback," then they'll come in "for the kill." They'll usually list dozens of expensive lots, scam as many people as possible, then stiff ebay for the fees. Then later on simply open up another ebay account and do it all over again. Ebay doesn't really care because when ebay gets stiffed for fees, it really doesn't cost them any "real" money.