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Northern Red

« on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 15:56:56 »

Some bloke on Ebay has mega-ly pissed me off, and he's currently selling about 700 items on ebay mostly buy-it-now.

Any way of buying all his items and refusing to pay, while hiding behind a false ebay account?

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Danjackson10

« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 16:48:40 »

naughty NR!
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 16:49:58 »

depends how his buy-it-now auctions are set up.

If they're to pay by pay-pal only and it makes you pay before the purchase is confirmed then No.

But if you can pay by chq etc then you could do that; E-Bay will obviously ban you!. Not sure if they would pick up if you have another account at the same address and suspend that one too.

So be a bit careful.
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 16:56:05 »

The other option is to nail him on what he's selling.

I used to import legit designer labels from the US that were only available in a handful of UK stores, so were fairly rare.  Despite buying at stateside retail they were half the price that you could get in the UK.  Several of the retailers got rather pissed off, complained to ebay who started removing my auctions due to ‘brand infringement’.

The annoying thing was they left all of the US auctions up and solely removed UK traders off the site.
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 17:05:54 »

Luckly over a 100 transactions to my name. I never had any problems 100%

(touch wood).
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ee the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 18:34:25 »

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Some bloke on Ebay has mega-ly pissed me off, and he's currently selling about 700 items on ebay mostly buy-it-now.

Any way of buying all his items and refusing to pay, while hiding behind a false ebay account?

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I have lost lots of money on eBay, so this used to be my favourite hobby. Ruining auctions that is.

Open a new account preferably from a different computer/location than you normally use. Although saying that eBay are shit, i went on my mates PC and opened quite a few accounts, and then decided to fuck it and just opened several on my own pc as well.

Anyway, only when "instant payment required" is stated by the buy it now button can you not ruin auctions cause it requires instant payment.

Anything else is fine. Don't be too onvious though and get a few gmail accounts or the like open to receive hatemail from the sellers.

It's funnier to respond and explain that they will get payment by end of next week. Delay them every way you can. If the goods are tangible they then spend a week wasting their time and not relisting the item.

It's cuntish but more satisfying than a 14lb shit. The accounts get closed, or at least they used too, when you get -5 feedback. Equally amusing!

Oh, another tip, don't buy too many things from one seller at once, they'll notice. A better way to do it is snipe loads of their stuff for £10m bids, this way you always win and they still get charged by The Bay.
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DribblingSissy

« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 08:19:35 »

Cant they actually make you pay the £10m though Barry?
I thought biding on eBay was a legally binding contract??
Saying that I remember some radio one thing were someone was auctioning off a picture of some girl with her number on the front and when the radio announced it within hours the bidding rose to over £2m and it was cancelled by eBay.....
I think Scott Mills mentioned something about regularly messing up the auctions for free tickets on there too like LiveAid and stuff.....so does it really work or can they make you pay if you win the auction!??!?!
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Northern Red

« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 15:27:01 »

I think the whole problem is putting some distance between my nice 100% feedback account and the newly created accounts.

This might take a while, but could be worth it in the end....  :twisted:
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 16:10:09 »

Why did this guy do then?
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ee the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm
Like the drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm

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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 17:49:41 »

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Cant they actually make you pay the £10m though Barry?
I thought biding on eBay was a legally binding contract??
Saying that I remember some radio one thing were someone was auctioning off a picture of some girl with her number on the front and when the radio announced it within hours the bidding rose to over £2m and it was cancelled by eBay.....
I think Scott Mills mentioned something about regularly messing up the auctions for free tickets on there too like LiveAid and stuff.....so does it really work or can they make you pay if you win the auction!??!?!


The idea behind a £10m is just so no one can out bid you, as the proxy bidding will keepyou highest.

eBay doesn't allow bids above £10m and if something shit got anywherre near that they would remove your bid i expect.

It is a legally binding contract, but if you haven't reg'd with real details, they have no idea who you are. You also have to remember that eBay employ such a tiny number of people they allow the policing of to be left to it's users/acct holders and systems/automation.

Trust me, i've won lots of things for ridiculous bids. I mean pathetically stupid. eBay don't contact you at all. The user files you as a non paying bidder on the systems, this then monitors you and will close and/or suspend your accoutn depending on your violation rates.

They're easy to get around and there is practically no human intervention. Hence the ease of setting up multiple accounts and destroying auctions for fun.

I'm sure they can see your IP and what not, but nothing has ever happened to me and most of what i did was from one IP.
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