[ARC5] Ebay Transactions

[Robert Eleazer]

I have had a number of bad ebay transactions, quite a few that were good, and a number that were not what I expected. 

But one of the most unsatisfactory was the 2nd time I tried to sell something.  It was a military surplus FM Low Pass 6M filter that I wanted to sell for some reason.  And when it sold the buyer did not contact me or respond to my attempts to contact him.  A few weeks later I filed a Unpaid claim with ebay and then immediately received an virus infected e-mail purporting to come from "W2FU."

At that time I did not know how to trace e-mails or else I would have reported it to the sender's ISP.  But it is odd to think that a buyer who clearly was an amateur radio operator would do something like that.  Buying something from a fellow ham that is not as he advertised it is not that uncommon.  Having one send you a computer virus for something he apparently want to buy is something else again.

Wayne