[ARC5] Ebay Transactions

[J. Forster]

> 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.

Did you send the buyer an invoice? I generally wait for one for a few days
after a sale, and do nothing until it shows up.


> 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."

Was this before the eBay email system was implemented? I doubt any malware
can get through that.

> 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.

Are you sure the buyer sent it intentionally. Often headers are forged.

-John

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> 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