eBay Fraudulent Listings
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:58 am
Guys,
There has recently been a swarm of electric bikes being listed on eBay, usually with a starting price of either 1 cent or 99 cents. These are coming from China from sellers with no prior history. The actual advertisements look good and with lots of quality pictures, and well written text. When several carbon-fibre electric bike were listed with a starting price of 1 Euro I became highly suspicious.
I reported this to eBay as possibly being fraudulent and last night I received the following email from eBay:
However eBay has had to remove the listing. All bids or offers have been cancelled. Also, we recommend that you consider carefully whether to complete this transaction.
We hope you understand that due to privacy reasons we're unable to discuss the details of why this listing was ended.
*Important*
We strongly recommend that you do not go ahead with the purchase however if you have already paid for this item but haven't received it, you need to act quickly to get your money back.
- Contact your bank to stop payment if you paid by cheque or bank deposit.
- Contact your credit card company if you paid by credit card.
- If you paid with PayPal, you may be eligible for up to $20,000 in PayPal Buyer Protection. To file a dispute go to the Resolution Centre in My eBay and click on I haven't received it yet or I received an item that does not match the seller's description.
If you have recently bought a really cheap electric via eBay, please DO NOT pay for it without checking with eBay first.
I am currently notifying eBay of more potentially fraudulent listings. This is of course not directed at the many thousands of legtimate sellers
There has recently been a swarm of electric bikes being listed on eBay, usually with a starting price of either 1 cent or 99 cents. These are coming from China from sellers with no prior history. The actual advertisements look good and with lots of quality pictures, and well written text. When several carbon-fibre electric bike were listed with a starting price of 1 Euro I became highly suspicious.
I reported this to eBay as possibly being fraudulent and last night I received the following email from eBay:
However eBay has had to remove the listing. All bids or offers have been cancelled. Also, we recommend that you consider carefully whether to complete this transaction.
We hope you understand that due to privacy reasons we're unable to discuss the details of why this listing was ended.
*Important*
We strongly recommend that you do not go ahead with the purchase however if you have already paid for this item but haven't received it, you need to act quickly to get your money back.
- Contact your bank to stop payment if you paid by cheque or bank deposit.
- Contact your credit card company if you paid by credit card.
- If you paid with PayPal, you may be eligible for up to $20,000 in PayPal Buyer Protection. To file a dispute go to the Resolution Centre in My eBay and click on I haven't received it yet or I received an item that does not match the seller's description.
If you have recently bought a really cheap electric via eBay, please DO NOT pay for it without checking with eBay first.
I am currently notifying eBay of more potentially fraudulent listings. This is of course not directed at the many thousands of legtimate sellers