eBay

ittybitnot · ‎08-08-2018

All brand new EBAY id's that are still posting their nonsense to the boards daily. One would think with ebay's top of the line fraud protection software, these new ID's would not even get up and going. Again they are EBAY ID's...not Lithium posters per se. Proactive fraud detection would be nice instead of reactive. It is the same reactive program throughout the site....we still don't know how many "report the buyer" issues it takes over time to rid this place of scammers.......be they sellers or buyers.

coffeebean832 · ‎08-08-2018

Maybe they should put a filter on posts with URLs in the subject line so a human has to view it before the post goes live.

ittybitnot · ‎08-08-2018

Maybe ebay should screen the new IDs?

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎08-08-2018

Shouldn't be that hard for Lithium to deny any posts with a subject containing http:// ?

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

newview · ‎08-08-2018

@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
Shouldn't be that hard for Lithium to deny any posts with a subject containing http:// ?

Better yet ... just dev / null them so they never show up, but let the spammer *think* they were successful. Let the little spam-hamster run on his wheel.

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

pburn · ‎08-08-2018

Just report the threads and move on.

everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures · ‎08-08-2018

@ittybitnot wrote:
All brand new EBAY id's that are still posting their nonsense to the boards daily. One would think with ebay's top of the line fraud protection software, these new ID's would not even get up and going. Again they are EBAY ID's...not Lithium posters per se. Proactive fraud detection would be nice instead of reactive. It is the same reactive program throughout the site....we still don't know how many "report the buyer" issues it takes over time to rid this place of scammers.......be they sellers or buyers.

They give you the ability to report the posts and they will be removed...this is the current way to handle it.
Just report the post(s)...this would be the simplest was to handle it.

readabouthorses · ‎08-09-2018

@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
@ittybitnot wrote:
All brand new EBAY id's that are still posting their nonsense to the boards daily. One would think with ebay's top of the line fraud protection software, these new ID's would not even get up and going. Again they are EBAY ID's...not Lithium posters per se. Proactive fraud detection would be nice instead of reactive. It is the same reactive program throughout the site....we still don't know how many "report the buyer" issues it takes over time to rid this place of scammers.......be they sellers or buyers.
They give you the ability to report the posts and they will be removed...this is the current way to handle it.
Just report the post(s)...this would be the simplest was to handle it.

So you do it. I'm tired of doing it every morning I come to the boards.

myangelandmyprincess · ‎08-09-2018

I'm going to have to say no it's not the simplest way to handle it.

“Birth certificates show that you were born. Death certificates show that you died. Photographs show that you have lived.” -Unknown

pburn · ‎08-09-2018

I'll do it. It doesn't make me tired at all. You just sit back and relax.

readabouthorses · ‎08-09-2018

@pburn wrote:
I'll do it. It doesn't make me tired at all. You just sit back and relax.

Thank you! But if you are going to report them you have to go into EVERY Board to check because they pop up everywhere. One day I found 16 of them spread out over 7 different Discussion Boards.

pburn · ‎08-09-2018

I know. That's the way I do it (but thanks for capitalizing EVERY, just to make sure). I don't, however, keep statistics on how many threads over how many boards. Some days, or times of day, it's better than reading the other threads posted on the discussion boards. Gives me something to do when the boards are slow or the threads are boring or I've read every one of them ten times or they're the same topics that have been hashed and rehashed (sales tax, tariffs on China, etc.).

thatsallfolks · ‎08-09-2018

@everything-from-trinkets-to-treasures wrote:
They give you the ability to report the posts and they will be removed...this is the current way to handle it.

Just report the post(s)...this would be the simplest was to handle it.

Lithium runs forums for a bunch of companies. They should already have software that would block these things from being posted. That's the simplest way.

Relying on members to report, and moderators to clean up, is lame.

readabouthorses · ‎08-09-2018

@pburn wrote:
I know. That's the way I do it (but thanks for capitalizing EVERY, just to make sure). I don't, however, keep statistics on how many threads over how many boards. Some days, or times of day, it's better than reading the other threads posted on the discussion boards. Gives me something to do when the boards are slow or the threads are boring or I've read every one of them ten times or they're the same topics that have been hashed and rehashed (sales tax, tariffs on China, etc.).

I usually didn't keep stats either but that one day I decided to write them down just to see where all they ended up and they were ending up in strange places like Seller Diversity and Ebay Open. And over in Collectibles & Art and Fashion and Home & Garden ... all different IDs who only posted 1 time but they could have all been the same person because of how easy it is to create an ID to just post if you are not going to use it to buy or sell.