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The eBay shipping deception

Posted onAuthorTruXterLeave a comment

So, you go to EBAY and select to search only items within your country. Be it so you can find items that will get there sooner, or because you feel safer.
This is your choice.
This is what you selected and this is what you should find.
But there is a secret that people outside of your country know about that you might not know about.
there are companies that are built to give people from outside of your country, a mailing address to set up their ebay accounts with.
In the USA there are a few. Most common are in Compton California,Florida and New York. I will not post the names of these companies because I don’t want to pass this on to other people who want to know how this is done.

What I do want to make clear is that EBAY needs to filter this better.

Why does this bother me?
Here’s an example:
I just bought a phone from my phone carrier. Most expensive phone i ever bought. I researched everything I could on this phone. I looked up a good case for my new phone on Ebay. So i made my purchase through my phone carrier’s website, then I made my purchase on Ebay from a company stating that it is in the USA.
Shipping states that it will take 5 days for the case to get here.
6 days go by, and I have been delicately carrying my phone around. I look online to check the tracking and the information is cleared saying that it will now take three weeks for my phone case to get here. Why? because it takes forever for things to get mailed from the Philippians to the USA.
So here I am ordering yet another phone from some on that everyone seems to stating the shipping was super fast . Hoping I get a case on my phone before the week’s end.

If I wanted a case that takes forever to get here I would have paid for one of the $3 versions of the exact same case. but no. I paid $16 for it to come from the same country as the rest. Only disguised under some weird p.o. box garbage with a lay over.

Just a heads up about the deceptive mailing addresses of some of ebay’s users.
This type of  scam on ebay makes the website utterly untrustworthy and useless.

Penny Bid Auctions are SCAMS

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Penny auctions and and penny bid sites are straight up flat out scams. The clock will milk the penny, the penny will continue to role in and you will continue to lose your money to products that you will never win. The auction site will continue to profit and no one wins but the site owner. You don’t and I don’t personally know a single person who has won anything from any of those sites but there sure are hundreds of posts on the internet of ” I won from them and got a brand new car for $200″. Yeah? Who the heck are you?
Nothing more than an employee of the website, a search engine optimization dude trying to save face for the website he is working on, meanwhile helping scam the whole darn planet.

Look here to see what people are saying about the big one… Beezid

and more of the penny auction scams

Everyone is happy to find an alternative to EBAY. So they run to the penny auctions like they run to computerized slot machines. Nothing makes me hang my head more than that. but Ebay the once mighty and powerful money making website, where you profit, I profit and They profit is now just a place where they profit and no one is ever happy again. They own their money trading company that charges you per transaction, while they own a website that charges you per auction, based on the value of your auction, meanwhile also charges you for just the auction it’s self… I have no clue how they justify that other than “It’s my site I will do what ever I want”. So a person running an auction on ebay that uses paypal, gets hit up to three times (sometimes) per auction and pay out.Ebay got too greedy. decided that when they started losing users, they would make up the difference by cranking the price and making their existing users pay even more.
So everyone runs to the penny auctions. Why? because the penny auctions charge the bidders. Charge me to bid? How stupid do you look? No thank you.
Have you asked yourself one piece of the most logical question here? If everything sold on the website goes for less than a penny per dollar, who would be so stupid as to sell anything on a penny auction site? No one. The people selling the stuff do not exist. The items being sold, do not exist. You bid, you just paid the site owner because the clock keeps ticking, the clock just starts back over. And the penny costs you more than a penny (at almost all of the penny auctions) so you lose track of your cost. If that part in it’s self does not throw up redflags and you say “ehh it’s just change” then you are clearly the biggest tool of an idiot and exactly the moron they are looking for. You have a better chance of thinking how much you want to pay for said products, walk to the nearest wishing well and just chunks your money in and see if that product falls in your lap. Not very likely.
Penny auction sites are scams.
All of them.
Don’t be ripped off by them. Even if it’s just a couple bucks. Heck if you are just handing out money….

Problem with Ebay

Posted onAuthorTruXter

I sold my G1 phone on eBay because I need the cash right now. At start I saw the prices they offered for the listing. I selected to start the auction at $90 with $9 shipping. Only one person bid on the phone. So the phone went at $90 and $9 shipping. The money went to my paypal account. Instantly PayPal (owned by eBay) charged me $5 for the transaction. Two days go by and eBay charged me $8 on top of the $1 they originally stated. So now I am down $13 of the $99 received for the sell and the shipping. Now i have to pay $9 for the shipping.
Of the $99 I’m now down $22.
This makes my take on the sell of my cell phone $77. Along with the wait in line at the post office on my lunch break. Because well. I didn’t want to make the buyer wait 1 or 2 extra days while the post office gets around to picking up the package from my house and i didn’t want to shell out more money for the shipping labels provided by eBay. Because really. I just sold one item.
$22 dollars to make less than $100 and the advertisement ran for three days. Heck it took 5 days for the money to transfer from PayPal to my bank account, but just seconds to to transfer from my bank account to eBay to pay off the fees for the listing.

Considering the last time I ran an ad on eBay I got hassled by a scammer who kept sending me payment confirmation emails but no payment was ever transferred.. Really for eBay to be so unsafe, they sure do charge quite a bit of money for you to sell one item and use a max of about 200kb of storage and maybe the same in bandwidth.

 

So now I plug my own website. My alternative to eBay.

On My Front Lawn is my Garage sale site where I now sell everything i want to sell.

onmyfrontlawn.com

Is Ebay Gone Yet ?

Posted onAuthorTech News

Did you ever get a PayPal account ? Buy much of anything on Ebay ? Got charged for doing the express pay and the guy collecting at the other end got charged to receive the  payment, Meanwhile the person selling the item had to pay for holding the auction. In one year, It was 04 or 05 when I last cared to hold an auction on eBay, but in that one year I got 3 notices of price raises and a free three days to hold an auction. See the issue is, they make plenty of money buy us paying for the auction, and the  7 percent (if it’s still that low, I doubt it) to sell out items using their bandwidth) to make plenty of money buy just maintaining the servers, but no, they keep trying to come up with ways to collect more money  from what they already offer.

What two months ago Ebay blamed social networks on their downfall. Really?  a social site?? The only way a social site can cause an issue with a a company is the freedom of speech. What I mean by that is, telling everyone how you got done wrong. Well dang the ability to speak your mind. Others blame it on a weakening economy. Yes it’s the fact that we do not want to give up our physical possessions that we earned and once put our hands on in trade for 7% or more fees to sell on a network full of people who have mastered the system of gaming that site.

If it was not for the over price auction and every fee they can tax to the system, it would be because the 50/50 chance of getting hit by a scammer. you auction off your item and some guy wins at a nice hefty price you ship the item, eBay contacts you and says “wait payment is not complete and has been reversed due to A STOLEN ACCOUNT” …. ehh crap. Meanwhile the scammer sends out hundreds of emails from fake email accounts like  emailer1.ebay@yahoo.com   and the emails look like legit eBay emails saying ” Item paid for you must ship item now” . Go to your PayPal account and see the money was reversed and you never received, then you get fake PayPal emails Confirming the item was paid for.

How the person won the auction was to bid $40000000 over the actual value of the item assuring no one will win but him/her. Basically killed your chance to get money for what you earned, then  to complete the screwing, tries to steal the item from you.

If you get scammed and fall for anything from an eBay scammer you are at a 80% chance of eBay saying ” there is nothing we can do about this at this time but we are looking into it” .. Great.

See for a place that actually has very little to offer, no 100% assurance, they sure do keep raising their prices a whole lot.

Oh for a heads up.

Never ever buy a car remote from eBay.   You get the remote, you set your car to match it, he just mailed it to you so he has your home address and the matching remote.. 20 bucks and a car for  $45 worth of gas.. Nice.

eBay and Nigerian Scam

Posted onAuthorTruXter

For starts, I was selling a PlayStation Portable on eBay.

Total went all the way to $150, the total was increased to 152. The winning bidder of this auction that was specified as U.S. only and PayPal only, decided to tell me to send the item to his/her son in Nigeria. I send a request to eBay to inspect the account and stated the situation. of course eBay screwed it up by canceling my auction and sending me an email that says I owe $2.

Great.

Well I did a search for  “john_milo500@yahoo.com” and removed the 500 and put a space between and after  the @ symbol.

Found his name came up a few times.  Sooooo I went to Self Destruct Email and sent him a few messages. One from Nigerian police, one from Internet police, one from international police, and another from the Wal-Mart security association. just for kicks.

The Wal-Mart one told him of hordes of overweight grannies storming his village in golf carts .

I also sent a threat of explosives possibly being in one of seven packages intercepted by us.

I have no idea what to with this dude just yet.

The guy is steadily sending me these emails.

Subject: ** John Milo sent you an Auction Payment with PayPal (Routing
Code:C826-L003-Q-T-S111)***
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:01:07 +0000
>  [image: PayPal]
>       *Protect Your Account Info*   Make sure you never provide your
> password to fraudulent websites.
>
> To safely and securely access the PayPal website or your account, open
a new
> web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and type in the
PayPal URL
> ( https://www.paypal.com/row/) to be sure you are on the real PayPal
site.
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> PayPal will never ask you to enter your password in an email.
>
> For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review
our
> Security Tips at https://www.paypal.com/row/securitytips
>     Protect Your Password  You should *never* give your PayPal
password to
> anyone, including PayPal employees.
>
>  *You've got new funds!*
> *
> * [image: Payments by PayPal]Dear truxter,
>
> John Milo  just sent you money with PayPal.
> John Milo is a *Verified Buyer.*
>  ------------------------------
>    Payment Details
>   Amount: US $300.00
>
>   Transaction ID: 5TV18003RU451511S   Subject:  Pls Shipping before
> 05/07/2008   Note: You have been paid for one
> #270250209172, Psp, 1gb & 32mb, 2 gta games, 1001
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> ------------------------------
>    Shipping Information
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>  Address:   Name:Tunde Ogunleye
> Address:# 6 Okadigbo Street
> State:Ogun
> City :Sagamu
> COUNTRY:Nigeria
> Zip Code:23403
> Tel No:+2348063864900
>
>    Address Status:  Confirmed