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eBay fraud is not news to any eBayer. As we have mentioned before, there are a small number of eBayers who are always planning on some rip off! There are eBay email frauds, fake items or no items. This article will show you how to avoind and where to report them to. It is important to remember that eBay is a lot like a marketplace. There will always be a shady person in the corner, selling stuff that most people wouldn’t bother looking at. The trouble is that, on the Internet, these people can be a little harder to spot. Here are twelve tips to help you keep an eye out for the rip-off merchants prevent eBay fraud.1. Bid on real Items: eBay has plenty of people who are trying to sell all sorts of schemes and scams. Don’t bother bidding on these items. This is an type of eBay fraud.2. Send payment to Address confirmed by eBay: Someone may hack into others’ accounts, and ask you to send payment to addresses that eBay has not confirmed as belonging to that account. You might send your money but it will be received by the hacker. You can get ebay sellers address and phone from this link. When you request a seller's info, your info also will be emailed to the seller. 3. Research the value of the item: You can get an average price of an item by researching for that item on overture.com and shopping.yahoo.com. There are people on eBay who regularly bid such high prices for used cameras that they might as well have gone out and bought them brand new. 4. Beware the shill bidder: They (Shill Bidders) are seller own party bidding on the items just to increase the price. If someone who doesn’t seem to have bought anything before is constantly outbidding you on a certain item, be suspicious. It might be a seller’s party shill bidding to hike the price. 5. Pay by credit card or other electronic method: You are more likely to be able to recover any losses if you pay using a credit card instead of sending out checks and money orders – these payments methods can’t be tracked as easily. 6. Items sold at below rock bottom prices: This holds for everything in life, but especially for eBay. As mentioned before, research prices on overture.com and shopping.yahoo.com. You can try msn shopping for research. Things that seem too cheap are usually too cheap for a reason – it might be a complete scam, or the items might just be of extremely poor quality. 7. Avoid doing anything outside eBay: Occasionally people will ask you to send them money outside eBay, to avoid the fees eBay charges sellers. Any money you send this way is entirely insecure. Beware of such transactions. Don’t do this unless you have purchased items from this seller before and are satisfied. 8. Sellers who suddenly change their item types: Sellers can look like they’ve made lots of transactions, when really they’ve never sold anything of worth. If they suddenly start selling $800 camcorders, avoid them – the chances are they’re planning to run off with the money. The exception to this rule is that if the seller is an eBay trading assistant (eBay consignment seller). eBay trading assistants sell other people’s stuff so they may change the item type suddenly especially, when they get large inventories. 9. Avoid seller’s escrow: If the seller recommends an escrow service, it could well be owned and run by them – and they’re quite likely to keep your money and ship no items to you. 10. Deal with reputable sellers: Each seller has a feedback rating. The higher this rating, the more you can trust them. Also, read their negative feedbacks to see if they are unreasonable. You be the judge. If one seller complains that the sellers shipped the item late. This is does not qualify for negative feedback. This should be a positive feedback with the buyer commenting about the slow shipping. 11. Ask the seller a question about the item: If the seller knows about the item, then he/ she will be able to answer it. If you don’t receive a response, then don’t bid. 12. Avoid logging from email: Sometimes you receive emails from what seems to be an eBay email. eBay never asks you to login to your account from the email. This is an eBay email fraud! Always login to your account on a browser where you type in the URL - ebay.com. If you are suspicious about an eBay email, then forward it to spoof@ebay.com. Feedback ratings are the most important way that buyers and sellers can protect themselves on eBay. Also, as a buyer you also should maintain a good positive feedback rating. eBay has an option for sellers where they can block certain buyers with many negative feedback rating. Read the above suggestions to avoid eBay fraud. Also we have indicated about the eBay email frauds and how to prevent such rip offs. You can also report fraud by going to eBay help section. |
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