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Re: eBay Fraud (OT)

Randall R Schulz wrote:

[FJR: Guarantees are only as good as the guarantor. There ain't no free lunch. When will people take security seriously?]
[This one is a long and ugly story. PGN]

Still OT, sorry.

What they were complaining about was a new "affiliated service" (or whatever EBay calls them) that purports to act as a "good seller verification" service, and says things like "$1000 guarantee".

Turns out that the (extremely) fine print says that the $1000 limit is not per /transaction/ or even per /buyer/, but per /seller/ (!!! - means each victim gets something like $1 back). A truly creative ploy, and certainly highly non-intuitive, and EBay is now scrambling to contain the damage and negative publicity from this..



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