eBay Australia Announces It Will Make It Easier For Scammers to Commit Fraud

[amy]

***Buy It Now Trial*** 

14 January 2006 | 10:00AM EST


Today we are announcing that eBay.com.au will be trialing removing the feedback requirements for listing items in the fixed price Buy It Now format. The current policy requires members to have feedback of 5 or more in order to list items using Buy it Now. During the trial we will allow Australian registered sellers to list items in fixed price format with the only condition being the item can be listed as available to Australia only, not worldwide.

We are interested in your feedback on this and you are welcome to post your thoughts to the Round Table discussion board.

Regards,
The eBay Team

Discussion on the eBay Australia boards: http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500005494&tstart=0

[bargainbloodhound]

eBay Australia Announces It Will Make It Easier For Scammers to Commit Fraud

Yes.  Another example that eBay is full of shit when it says it is serious about fighting fraud on its site. :

Overstock requires feedback over 10.  Since buyers rarely leave FB on O, it takes a while to get to 10.  I think eBay should raise not lower the requirement...or better yet, start verifying new users.

[iron_chick]

start verifying new users.

But then folks wouldn't be able to create a gazillion new accounts and the numbers wouldn't look so good.

I sometimes wonder just how many USERS there actually are on eBay compared to the number of REGISTERED USERS. 

Heck, I have accounts I can't even remember the USERID on.

[mandy]

I split part of the thread into a separate topic  :twistedevil: eBay's misleading use of registered users figures instead of active users http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...232.0.html