How to stop the cheating Ebay sellers?
 

I am new on this forum, and I have a real bad idea how to stop the Chinese/HK seller from fake 4 Gb mp3 players.

I will explain it in steps:

The whole idea is to fight them with the same weapons as they use. So

1)Create a new e-mail adress on Yahoo or Hotmail e.g.

2)Create a new Ebay account, using a fake name and adress

3)Start to make offers on the fake 4GB mp3 players (from well known cheating sellers)

4)make shure that the offer is very high, even too high. The whole idea is to take the fake 4GB players off the market

5)After you "win" the auction, you don't react to the sellers e-mail

The final result is that the players are not really sold, and finally the sellers will get bored and tired of it.

It is a good concept.

The only problem is that Ebay requires a valid credit card when registering.

There goes the "bad plan, too bad, sorry.

Re: How to stop the cheating Ebay sellers?
 

As a person with many "mischief accounts" that I've used to get back at bad sellers, I think I may be more qualified to field this one....

You don't need a credit card to register as a buyer, only as a seller. If you use known web based email accounts like yahoo or hotmail, then yes you do. So you use obscure web based email providers ebay dont yet know about.... say "multan.biz".

Once you got your account, the world's your oyster, mate. But if a seller tries to contact you and finds the info fake, eBay will pull the account asap. eBay, like a mother bear, will protect her young (her young are the sellers). Use a real phone no., like from a university or large company perhaps, where its hard to locate an individual (or a phone no you KNOW is always busy....). Lastly, ebay will suspend you if they see a pattern of harassing sellers. Boo hoo hooo you open another account. Good luck and may the force be with you!

michiganjfrog, thanks for the great articles. Have just voted for you. And great tips too for creating "mischief accounts". Now I just have to come up with some funky user names.

I suggest setting up an account with Esnipe as well (www.esnipe.com). Then you don't even have to manually bid. Esnipe will bid for you. Just enter the item number, highest bid (pick a huge $$$) That way these scammers can't cancel your bids, because Esnipe will outbid any bidders in the last few seconds of the auction.

If it was me doing this, which I am not btw, I would also be doing this all through an anonymous proxy server, and using bogus names, addresses and phone number.

I do not condone any of the above, as it is probably not exactly legal and rather nasty. However sometimes the ends justify the means.