01-30-2006, 10:06 AM
Quote:Online auctions, a market dominated by San Jose's eBay, continued to be the largest source of consumer fraud complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission in 2005...
Internet auctions represented 12 percent of the total fraud complaints reported to the FTC in 2005, down from 15 percent in each of the two prior years. The 80,450 Internet auction-related complaints in 2005 were an improvement from past years.
Quote:Durzy declined to elaborate on specific eBay efforts to combat fraud.
Durzy said eBay can't be responsible for everything that happens on the site.
``The people who were defrauded maybe didn't take the proper steps to begin with when they were shopping,'' he said. ``Maybe they didn't take advantage of the fact that they could see the history of the seller.
``We can't stand over the shoulder of every user on eBay and say, no, you can't pay this way. Ultimately, it's the buyer who has to make the decision to do so.''
full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...735132.htm