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2017/10/31 15:02:48
Mesh
Wow, just sucks to buy or sell anything online.......can't trust anyone these days.
 
Glad to hear you didn't fall for that. 
2017/10/31 15:03:13
TheMaartian
Ham N Egz
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Depending on what you were selling, the big thing is the buyer is a parts robber, takes good parts out of the stuff you sell him(ham radio stuff is a big scam for that) puts his bad part in, notifies ebay it isnt working, gets a refund and you now have a junk article with bad parts in it

Love that scam!
 
The guys running a 6 story parking garage on Rush St. in Chicago got busted years ago for something similar. The garage had elevators, no ramps. Attendants would park your car. They would ask you how long you'd be and park it 'appropriately'. What the place was, was an engine swap. Somebody needed a new Corvette engine? They'd park it on the upper level and swap in the piece of junk for the new one. Never got caught. Until one day, some lugnut forgot to put the engine mounting bolts back in. The owner got less than a block when the engine and tranny fell to the ground! LMAO!
2017/10/31 15:24:11
bitflipper
It's been common practice since the days of "X-Ray Specs!" in the back of comic books to add a bogus identifier to an address, often something like "Dept. 23". That's so the vendor can tell which ad you are responding to. They do it on TV infomercials, too.
 
I have even done it myself, adding a bogus middle initial to my name so that if I started getting junk mail I'd know who had been selling my information.
2017/11/02 02:35:14
eph221
There's some guy from Belarus selling all kinds of vst's and samples on ebay.  I reported him twice and ebay never did anything.  He's selling everything so cheap, I have a feeling he's trying to install a payload on someone's computer.  So beware cheap vst's and samples on ebay.  They're not license transfer's but him getting you to download from a drop box account and install on your computer.
2017/11/02 03:40:29
craigb

2017/11/06 22:25:50
2:43AM
So here we go again: Sold another item on eBay, this time a freakin' new-old stock laptop power supply.  Receive a payment from another foreigner (PayPal name written in Cyrillic) and email address Ukrainian.  Shipping address is in New Jersey (the last one was as well), but Google puts it at some big shipping warehouse.  Apparently, [past] words have been mentioned in the eBay community about this place as well, as in "fishy" or don't ship there; possible scam and/or a scam.  However, some folks say just ship because delivery tracking will prove it was delivered so PayPal will provide protection if a possible scam.  Others say it is an export service to the Ukraine; It's okay.  It doesn't sound OK to me!
 
600 Markley St Ste 018190
Meest-America, Inc.
 
Exactly.  Sounds fishy AF. 
 
https://www.bbb.org/new-j...rt-reading-nj-18001685
 
Reading the above BBB profile, well, maybe it's actually a legit business.  But for what?  Very strange.  I mean if someone in the Ukraine wants to buy the power supply then why not just bid like anyone else, win it yourself, and pay for it yourself?!?  I guess this is somebody's way to circumvent the "I don't ship internationally" checkbox in eBay.
 
I think I'm done with eBay.  This is ridiculous.
2017/11/06 22:44:48
2:43AM
Looks at this crap (eBay policy notice):
 

 
Apparently, this is a thing, and you're automatically "opted into" this program despite being asked.  So I opted out.
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