There is a new kind of eBay fraud going on. Now that there there is no tit for tat retaliation for buyer negative feedback, some sellers are burning their integrity down on the way out the door.
What I mean, is they are taking money and not delivering goods. This is especially when paid by postal money order. I guess they don't understand the gravity of felony postal fraud, but they will soon find out. These money orders have numbers, so payment is tracked.
Those who were mostly good at shipping as promised, shipping on time, and shipping at all have decided there is not a good reason to stay on ebay when they cannot retaliate against buyers who mark them down on feedback for late or non-shipping.
They are on the way out the door. They are folding up their tent for home side business and leaving. They are stealing from customers on the way out. They don't care about their shop since they have decided they cannot or willnot do business when buyer's cannot be held hostage for entering negative feedback comments. Ebay feedback was broken before. Now it his even more screwed up. I call it corporate negligence.
I've had one seller "never receive my money order" and another say he shipped on 5/16 to Maryland from Pennsylvania, but the goods are still not here tonight, on 5/27/08. The second guy has "account closed" on ebay feedback and no itmes for sale on eBay. He closed up his tent and he is ripping folks off now. I will burn his a$$. That is how I am. I will give $100 bucks to a buddy in need, but I will burn a thief for cheating me $30 because of principle. I will spend $200 of my time burning a cheat. Really that is an obligation in society and mostly I have been successful through insistance. Just ask the guy four years ago about the stolen NAPA carb he sent for a "no. matching carb". Yeah, don't ship stolen goods in boxes with UPS tracking numbers to the NAPA store where they were special ordered and then stolen.... lol!
As these guys close up shop, they are stealing from customers.
I say wait for the dust to settle before you buy on eBay again.
Don't buy or sell on eBay until they sort this out.
There's an answer/fix for every problem and I've found the perfect fix for this one. All you gotta do is pay for your eBay item with PayPal. One more thing, you need to use a major credit card as the source. I like to use the Sears card because they are very interactive. If your item isn't received as fast as you think it should, make sure you contact your seller a few times in the days that it's late. When it gets 10-14 days late you call Sears, tell them your seller is not answering/helping and you didn't receive anything, and they take the money back. This is a good, two-way, street. All the seller has to do to get his/her money back is to prove it was delivered. Everyone is covered. You will always get your item or your money back. This doesn't help much when you get your item and do not like it, but at least you get something.... It's even funny how fast a balking seller will get you your item when you yank their money back. And you sellers, make sure you always get delivery confirmation to cover your arse.
