RE: Re: OT : eBay

["Malcolm Surgenor" <malcolm@xxxxxxx>]

>>From a bidders perspective, the best advice is caveat emptor,
and
>>walk away from a deal if in the slightest doubt

Agreed Patrick, but I've always used the feedback given in eBay as some
indication of the trustworthiness of individuals, never bid for
anything
>from
individuals might have bought from this individual thinking it was me
(who
has extremely good feedback).

It shows that you cannot even trust this process...

Malcolm



-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Lidstone <patrick@xxxxxxx> [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 February 2003 11:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT : eBay


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ian@w...> wrote:
> If he is in the UK, I'd think seriously about contacting the
Police
rather
> than just his ISP, it's hard to see any legitimate reason for
doing
what he
> did, and given that e-bay is a "real money" site, they may
be
interested.
>

Depends which region you are in as to whether it is worth contacting
the police - if your region doesn't have an officer dedicated to
fraud, there's little point in wasting your time - your report will
more than likely end up at the bottom of a paper tray somewhere.

My own experience of eBay suggests that they couldn't care less about
fraud of any description, despite the rhetoric on their site. It
would appear they are spectacularly inefficient at both detecting and
acting on reports of systematic fraud.

>from
walk away from a deal if in the slightest doubt.

Patrick

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