From: Carlos de la Puente (delapuente.carlos_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 14:45:13 EDT
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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