How is this not fraud?

[Snapolit1]

Ebay has about 1.5 billion items listed a day. I really don’t think it’s reasonable for them to weed out every potential permutation of fraud or altered item that anyone could conceivably list on their website. Just my opinion. And, as pointed out, many of these listings are written up in an ambiguous way.

Hell is other people. Not websites, which are tools that can be good or bad depending on the bozos who use them.

[obiwan1129]

Ebay is always a funny place. Computer graphics cards are in incredibly high demand right now. A number of scalpers using bots buy them in bulk online or through Ebay, mark them up and then try to resell them on Ebay for even more money.

A number of folks started posting up a "picture" of a graphics card and conducting auctions on there to slow down the scalpers and their bots. If you at all read the auction description you would see it was a picture that you were bidding on. Ebay to their credit shut a lot of these down pretty quickly but I did like the thought of messing with them.

[Santo10Fan]

Originally Posted by obiwan1129

Ebay is always a funny place. Computer graphics cards are in incredibly high demand right now. A number of scalpers using bots buy them in bulk online or through Ebay, mark them up and then try to resell them on Ebay for even more money.

A number of folks started posting up a "picture" of a graphics card and conducting auctions on there to slow down the scalpers and their bots. If you at all read the auction description you would see it was a picture that you were bidding on. Ebay to their credit shut a lot of these down pretty quickly but I did like the thought of messing with them.

Those cards have been hot for years because of bitcoin mining.

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Ebay has about 1.5 billion items listed a day. I really don’t think it’s reasonable for them to weed out every potential permutation of fraud or altered item that anyone could conceivably list on their website. Just my opinion. And, as pointed out, many of these listings are written up in an ambiguous way.

Hell is other people. Not websites, which are tools that can be good or bad depending on the bozos who use them.

Yes, but when people complain to Ebay they've been ripped off as in this case (check the feedback) then I think Ebay has some responsibility to check it out. The last two buyers were out a significant amount of money.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Ebay has about 1.5 billion items listed a day. I really don’t think it’s reasonable for them to weed out every potential permutation of fraud or altered item that anyone could conceivably list on their website. Just my opinion.

Yikes. That's one way to look at it. I guess.

Another way is I've alerted them 100s of times and they've done nothing except continue to collect fees off fraudulent sales.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

Yikes. That's one way to look at it. I guess.

Another way is I've alerted them 100s of times and they've done nothing except continue to collect fees off fraudulent sales.

Years ago, eBay sent out a holiday catalog with a counterfeit Peyton Manning jersey on the cover. They LOVE fraud.