[ForSale-Swap] Re: ForSale-Swap Digest, Vol 39, Issue 13

[Robert Nickels]

Radioman390 at cs.com wrote:
> Been there. Don't dabble in EBay unless you can afford to lose. Or at least be very careful. 
> Post: mailto:ForSale-Swap at mailman.qth.net
>
>   
I think that's good advice, Matt, based on my experience.  Bear in mind 
that eBay has a 30 day time window for filing a complaint - read the 
site for full info but I found this out the hard way.  If you smell a 
rat, at least get the process started so you don't loose whatever 
protection they do provide (which ain't much, I agree).

Matt has outlined a pattern to look for that may indicative of a seller 
that is fraudulent or at least iffy.  Why hasn't eBay put software 
filters in place to detect these patterns in the same way that the 
credit card companies have?  Simple answer is because it's you and I 
that are at risk, they've already made their money.  Something I'd like 
to see them get pressure to change.  It will never be 100% risk-free, 
but they could be doing a lot more to protect their customers, 
especially since they control both the sales channel (eBay) and the 
payment process (PayPal).

73, Bob W9RAN