Dont get conned. The following is sound advice for buyers and sellers from personal experience and what I have seen recently on eBay. For the Buyers 1. Read all the advert as a BOX usually means just the...
Whilst eBay allow email addresses to appear in listing descriptions it easy for those who take over eBay accounts to run their scams. Any listing, no matter how long it is running for, with an email address...
There are several scams which appear regularly on eBay and appear to come from Chinese based sellers. The items are always Buy it Now listings and the seller usually lists 8-10 items at the same time. Often...
QUAD II amplifiers are one of the most popular items bought on eBay. Here are a few pointers that might be useful. Buyers tend to favour amplifiers with very close serial numbers but this is not really...
There is a growing method of account theft by scammers who want to use YOUR account to steal money from eBay buyers. They simply place a 'harvesting' listing for a valuable and attractive item and the only...
This scam is aimed at sellers only. The seller gets and email, which doesn't even look as if it came from eBay as it has no eBay graphics of any kind, telling the seller a bid has been retraced on one of the...
There are now many sellers, registered in China and the USA, who are selling cheap goods that look to be real bargains but have extorionate shipping costs. They sell the item cheap because the shipping charge...
A favourite trick of the second chance offer scammer is to email you and pretend he is the seller of an item you were not the high bidder on. He offers you a second chance offer at a ridiculously low price...
Fake emails are common and every eBay user will have received them. However a surprising number of people do not realise they are scams and are designed to harvest your username and password. The text in them...
Scammers are now using spoof unpaid item notices to obtain the account passwords of unsuspecting eBayers. This is the way it works. You receive an email which is an unpaid item notice that looks as if it came...