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A new theory about these auctions

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:50 pm
by Michael Bush
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIRAFONE-5-VALV ... 43b977e476" target="_blank

I used to report these and similar auctions every time they came up. But obviously eBay doesn't care. If they did, they would find some kind of software solution that would eliminate the problem. I'm not reporting these auctions anymore. If eBay likes paying the buyer protection claims on them, they're at their liberty as far as I'm concerned.

Re: A new theory about these auctions

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:37 pm
by saxophyte
I out bid you

Re: A new theory about these auctions

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:05 pm
by DavidB

Re: A new theory about these auctions

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:22 pm
by bigtubby
talleyrand wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIRAFONE-5-VALV ... 43b977e476" target="_blank

I used to report these and similar auctions every time they came up. But obviously eBay doesn't care. If they did, they would find some kind of software solution that would eliminate the problem. I'm not reporting these auctions anymore. If eBay likes paying the buyer protection claims on them, they're at their liberty as far as I'm concerned.
Someone has figured out how to game ebay and ebay hasn't sorted it out. The real point of these is to collect email addresses: "email me before bidding rickscum@gmail.com" target="_blank" target="_blank". One would think that a company as big as ebay would have an engineering department that could deal with these but ...