look out for ebay crooks

[pimpcat 0]

as i said a few days ago i thought i had got some r32 wheels 4 the 4motion but i find out over the weekend that sum Twat has conned me out of £350 as well as conning 4 outher people on different auctions. the idiot however has not thought it through because he has used a company email address stupid tit ne way paid through pay pal so i ope i will be able to get it bk the money atleast as wheels wont exist shame would have made the 4motion look well gd

[cadguy77 0]

what name does he trade under? pre-warn other members!!!

[pimpcat 0]

rus-uk-! and his brother and m8 are in on it his mates one is mfox621773

[petervr6 0]

hope you do mate and the scum bag gets done for it.

[Seademon 0]

Thing is when you setup an ebay account dont you need to register a bank account or credit card? I cant see how people get away with it

[DundeeDub 0]

talking of scams, got a feeling that this is one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=ADME%3AL%3ARTQ%3AUK%3A1&viewitem=&item=270100763348&rd=1

[Earwig 89]

If they used a work Email address can you not track the company and go and pay him a visit ? :-)

Mark.

[pimpcat 0]

im jst waitin 4 paypal to refund if not then will go c him plus he has scamed 4 of us apparently so the police are involved as he is ment to have got over 1.5k off us all stupid bloke

[Seademon 0]

talking of scams' date=' got a feeling that this is one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=ADME%3AL%3ARTQ%3AUK%3A1&viewitem=&item=270100763348&rd=1

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I dont think thats a scam, just a misworded ad as theres no such thing

[matth76 1]

Thing is when you setup an ebay account dont you need to register a bank account or credit card? I cant see how people get away with it

Unfortunately Ebay allow people to become members with either a credit card or "proper"company email address (ie not a Hotmail or Yahoo account). This leaves it open to con artists! You can effectively set up many accounts if you own some domain names (which cost hardly anything) and simply have email accounts set up under these domains - therefore the cons don't necessarily own a proper company - they just own the domains - could be worth checking on register.com to find out the ownership details - although many domain name companies (like uk2.net) have stopped giving out the full "whois" ownership information. Register.com still give out domain owner info though. They could of course have used fake names and addresses when they bought the domains - which they probably have.

Ebay and Paypal have been on Watchdog on several occasions re scams just like this - unfortunately in most of the cases Paypal and Ebay refused to refund which I think is very bad - and as a result I rarely use Ebay now. Although if you paid with your credit card you should get in touch asap with your card company (not Paypal) and your credit card company will claim the money back (this is your right if you pay for goods £100 or more with a credit card - doesn't apply to debit cards like Switch though which is rediculous). Hope you get your money back mate.

[kalv 0]

I got scammed out of £150 once (long time ago) - paid through paypal.. and they only refunded me back £60.

Hopefully they have improved and there protection actually works. Good luck.