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Scammer Lists 57,000+ Fraudulent Listing on eBay - Simultaneously!
ebaymotorssucks.com — Scammers have again bombarded eBay.com with high-ticket scam listings with low starting bids on hijacked accounts. One seller had over 57,000, with email in listing to contact about BIN prices. That's over one million dollars in listing fees, if auctions were legitimate. eBay removed a thread on their security discussion board about the scams.
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- Angie0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OMG that's outrageous.
Bury the evidence every time, I'm so shocked I even 'recommended' that page to meg.whitman@ebay.com *wonder if she got my last email*
Please would some enterprising young reporter looking to make a name for themselves by breaking a massive story get in touch with www.pheebay.com www.firemeg.com or www.ebaymotorssucks.com
Even better, get in touch with all three sites and learn exactly what's going on. - Firemeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+314 days left until the end of the quarter. It ought to be very interesting to see eBay's numbers. If they include these scam listings, the question will be whether anyone can prove it, and if so will anyone (in the media) care?
- Firemeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That should be 5,000+ auctions, not 57,000+ auctions. Still, this is the most scam auctions simultaneously by one scammer that I've seen. The previous high was just over 3,500.
- PahJamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ah , but ebay user jjurgy is kickin some ebay butt with over 4,000 tractors and heavy equipment for really low prices right now. Oh and in the Dolls and Bears category. Find him now and simply refresh your browser to watch his magic.....
- scamthis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3eBay spends more time watching what I Do than policing their own website! No doubt that if i hadn't published that scam it would have ran all weekend! And that poor seller is going to have a hard time getting all those Fees Credited!
And another tidbit i read on this blog: http://bohanna.typepad.com/pureplay/2006/07/my_ebay_account.html this eBay account holder had no sellers info on file! Apparently the scammers used someone else's credit card on his account! More proof that eBay don't care WHO Pays the fees! A sellers account should be restricted to that persons financial info only! - PahJamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is getting fascinating. eBay is truly scary and it will get even more so because there is really nothing they can do about it at this point. Even if they go to some type of full user verification on each and every posting, it will be too much of a hassle to list anything and the process will be very expensive to both sides of the equation. With a sell through rate of 10-50% it is barely worth it to stay on eBay as it is. It is a shame, but the bad guys are winning this one and it is only a matter of time before they take it over. Also, it won't matter if there becomes an eBay alternative, because the same thing will happen to them over time. The crooks go where the money is. Will this be like, "remember Digital Equipment Corp?", remember online auctions?
- scamthis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And you can take a Ho Tour too.. :)
http://www.ebaymotorssucks.com/take-a-whore-tour-on-ebay-motors.htm - PahJamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, it's almost midnight on Saturday..and yes, I should get a life. Today on eBay and in the community, I discovered over 12,000 fraudulent auctions posted by just a few hijacked users. Took some screen shots, bundled them up and sent them to a reporter with links to other "Freedom eBayers" observations like the ho tour one above. Also dissected a lot of the auction count information on http://www.medved.net and discovered the first month in which the auction count activity deviated from some well observed and slightly predictable count patterns - that would be November 2003. Since then, the auction count graphs contain serious anomalies and large fluctuations in a short time frame. And it is easy to see that the line "flutter" has gotten worse over time. Since December 2006, eBay has been in some kind of protracted battle with auction counts zigzagging and swinging by a million auctions+- in a few hours. If these are fraudulent auctions they are costing eBay a significant sum. On 3/5 alone somewhere in the vicinity of 5 milion listings went up and down - calculate the fees any way you want and it still is a lot of lost revenue. An interesting side question is do they count these as new listings? I mean, it must look good to somebody that owns new auction kpis's to have 5 million new listings in one day, right? Who cares if they're bogus, Wall Street won't ask - they're not dialed in well enough, obviously. Also, eBay reach as a percent of global internet users is down 20% in the last three months according to Alexa. It can't be a good thing to lose 20% of your previous sales potential in a three month period now can it?
- giovanni666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That slideshow in eweek probably did not help much either.
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=25954&a=202474,00.asp
I also sure thought that right after that the charts were just blank...
Those charts could probably be manipulated simply by changing the sampling rate.
Cartesian coordinates do not lie, but the person painting them is able to.
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