WARNING EBAY- Change your Category Scam

Originally Posted by 406Refining

I'm glad you caught it before any damage was done. Especially since you know ebay would have sided with them even with a mountain of proof that they were scamming you. Is it just me or has the number of scammers on ebay been increasing in recent years?

I had an incident on Ebay a number of years back that I'd prefer not to re-hash. Long story short. Dude scammed me out of a $300 Sun Workstation. I fought it to every level (Ebay, Paypal, Filed a Police Report, Had Computer Forensically tested to disprove his claim of damage and filed with IC3) all for literally lost money on the fight and no resolve. I swore off Ebay at that point.



I gave it a bit of time and had come into a small mountain of brand new toner that I couldn't move any other way but Ebay, so I tried again and all of that went well. So I had some faith in humanity restored.

But this most recent incident has spooked me again. Frankly, it stinks. I could sell the chips for scrap for far less money, I could try to head over to the CPU forum and sell them one by one (but don't want to do that right now because of lack of time.) I miss the old days where you could just sell and item and not have to hold your breath that you may end up being taken for your item(s) AND your money!