Originally Posted by
Brian Vuillemenot
This is an ever more common way that crooks are using E-Bay to defraud people of their money. The "logic" is that they build up a profile of good feedback by auctioning off small items and/or staging phoney auctions to other E-Bay user names (many of which are all the same person). They then leave phoney feedback, giving the appearance of a legitimate seller, with all good feedback. Then, they list a number of big ticket items all at once, most of which are usually based on j-pegs taken from other, finished auctions (of course, they don't actually own any of these items). They take payment from the winning bidders, and then promptly cancel their E-Bay membership under that user ID and disappear with the winning bidders' money. E-Bay won't do a thing about it.
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