Scams O'plenty

[bigdeals.etc]

How many times have you been scammed by a buyer? Go!

[iart]

A few. But generally nickel & dime stuff.

Example: One guy bought a small poster from us. Made a print. Then returned the original. Was very honest about what he was doing. So, it cost us the shipping charges (was free shipping, free returns). That kind of stuff.

A bad one was back almost 20 years ago. We fell for a phishing scheme (they were kind of new at the time, and so were we). Took over our account and started 'selling' computers. We had regular customers back then who recognized the sales as unusual and alerted us.

But the worst one was Meg Whitman. Former ebay CEO. Everything she did was a scam.

[bonus-deal]

Ive read a bunch of messages here.  I can say this all depends on the product you sell.  #1 issues is with Tier 1 Name brand items.  You will get Dropshippers/brokers/resellers/overseas resellers  who purchase from you and want to assume no risk and don't care about there own customer, and try to pass on all the bad returns/fraud to the sellers.

I deal with Tier 1 items, and tier 2.  I don't deal in any generic items.  I get frauded about 2-4 times a month.  During the holidays they won't do the fraud until january and the chargebacks, so i can say during Holiday season, will be over 10 but this is ebay, so maybe not as much.  

this is talking about the ones we catch,  I work with ebay trust and safety all the time, and i know they catch alot of them.  

[tellmemama]

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@silverstatetreasureboxes wrote:

Wait a minute...Kindly text me and included 3 gift cards to Taco Bell..no wait..Wendys...no wait Applebees my number is 867.5309...and I'll tell you!

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Yeah, we got your number Jenny.

[pvcliff]

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@cody.-33 wrote:

Actual scam, outright?
However there are plenty of members here who won't hesitate to take advantage of a situation when it presents itself, some would consider that scamming.

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I call that "opportunistic scamming". That is what happened to me the one time in ten years that I was scammed. I was 3 months new and ignorantly/innocently combined items from two different accounts into the same shipment when I saw that one person had bought from both of my IDs. The woman knew she could claim INR, and did on the trinkets from the more expensive order. Lost about $85, and learned a big lesson on doing business on eBay and the nature of some people.

[byrd69er]

Once.

Buyer claimed all five tubes were testing very low.

No  bleeping way (with a big laugh)

Gave him his whopping $15 back.

Blocked.