03-09-2006, 01:17 PM
This goes right back to what many of us have said all along about the
cloaking of all ebay users identities until after the sale and the
lack of any TRUE VERIFICATION process of it's members.
Not to mention that they allow one person to have MANY ID's.
This is all self serving and makes ebay money.
I think this is what has fueled this
breeding ground of not only counterfeiting rings
and scammers but shill bidding rings as well.
There is no doubt that eBay has known for a long time
that counterfeits, scammers and shill bidding was increasing
at an alarming rate on their site.
By their own actions that is apparent.
One example is the BPP and SPP they introduced shortly
after buying out PayPal.
WHY WOULD THEY FEEL THE NEED TO INTRODUCE ALL
THIS CARP TO MAKE EVERYONE FEEL SO "SAFE" TO TRADE ON
EBAY IF THEY DID NOT ALREADY KNOW THERE WERE
SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS CONCERNING
TRUST AND SAFETY?
Both ebay and PayPal have chosen to NOT be proactive
in combating this phenomena for a long time.
Instead they took the usual path of trying to capitalize on the situation
and TRYING to further insulate themselves of any liability.
There is NO way with all the data ebay collects that the
top executives of ebay did not AND do not know what is going on.
Many have us have begged them for a long time to:
1) Tighten up their lax registration polices.
2) Do away with all this multiple ID carp.
3) Allow potential buyers and sellers to be able to know
who they are dealing with PRIOR to a sale.
I hope that Tiffany opens up the flood gates and would love to see many more suits follow.
If ebay wishes to maintain this "We are just a venue" BS
then they need to throw thier policies pages right out the window and replace it with:
BUYERS AND SELLERS BEWARE. TRADE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
We are just a venue...
cloaking of all ebay users identities until after the sale and the
lack of any TRUE VERIFICATION process of it's members.
Not to mention that they allow one person to have MANY ID's.
This is all self serving and makes ebay money.
I think this is what has fueled this
breeding ground of not only counterfeiting rings
and scammers but shill bidding rings as well.
There is no doubt that eBay has known for a long time
that counterfeits, scammers and shill bidding was increasing
at an alarming rate on their site.
By their own actions that is apparent.
One example is the BPP and SPP they introduced shortly
after buying out PayPal.
WHY WOULD THEY FEEL THE NEED TO INTRODUCE ALL
THIS CARP TO MAKE EVERYONE FEEL SO "SAFE" TO TRADE ON
EBAY IF THEY DID NOT ALREADY KNOW THERE WERE
SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS CONCERNING
TRUST AND SAFETY?
Both ebay and PayPal have chosen to NOT be proactive
in combating this phenomena for a long time.
Instead they took the usual path of trying to capitalize on the situation
and TRYING to further insulate themselves of any liability.
There is NO way with all the data ebay collects that the
top executives of ebay did not AND do not know what is going on.
Many have us have begged them for a long time to:
1) Tighten up their lax registration polices.
2) Do away with all this multiple ID carp.
3) Allow potential buyers and sellers to be able to know
who they are dealing with PRIOR to a sale.
I hope that Tiffany opens up the flood gates and would love to see many more suits follow.
If ebay wishes to maintain this "We are just a venue" BS
then they need to throw thier policies pages right out the window and replace it with:
BUYERS AND SELLERS BEWARE. TRADE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
We are just a venue...