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13 Ways To Stay Safe On Ebay
Bay is a very large eBay buyer protection and Pay Pal
website with millions of buyer protection. Another thing
visitors each week. Some is that you will not be able to
people just want to browse leave feedback to warn others.
through and buy items, while
others take this opportunity to 2) Keep an eye on brand new
prey upon them. Here are the sellers.
thirteen ways to staying safe on
eBay. Although the vast majority of new
sellers are genuine and honest,
1) Beware of invitations to trade be very cautious of buying from
on another site. people selling high priced items
too early. This pattern is just
This is a classic tactic of not normal. Would you start out
fraudsters. Once they make some by selling high priced items on
kind of contact with you, they eBay? A new seller fitting this
will invite you to purchase or description may be someone who
sell off eBay. The attraction has been previously suspended and
here to the scammer, is that they registered with another ID.
can drive the transaction along
with any lines they prefer. They 3) Protect your eBay ID.
will try to milk every cent out
of your pocket and laugh about Never use your email address as
it. your eBay ID. Scammers have
software that monitors internet
Another reason why trading off traffic looking for information
eBay is not a good idea is that like this. If your eBay ID and
you have to keep your own records email address are the same, it is
of the transaction. Keep in mind simple for a fraudster to
that you forfeit any cover from communicate with other eBay
members in your name. Soon
enough, you might even be banned Postal orders are similar
from eBay because of their although they are the popular
illegal activities. payment method among the super
star sellers. Bank transfers and
4) Be cautious of 1 day listings. personal checks can only provide
the possibility of your bank
Even though 1 day listings are investigating the details of the
used by expert sellers with account the money was transferred
authentic items, scammers will into. For the best protection use
use this method to trick you. For Pay pal and add credit with a
instance they will sometimes use credit card.
1 day auctions to gain a quick
sale before their actions can be 6) False stock photographs and
reported. You must be very descriptions.
careful with these listings.
Due to the fact that scammers do
5) You should make sure the not have the physical items, they
payment methods are legitimate. will use stock photographs. There
is also a great chance that they
Scammers prefer to choose payment will probably use the
methods in which the buyer has no manufacturer's product
protection. These include wire description too. Do some research
transfers where the buyer has no and search for other auctions by
way of tracing where their own the same seller.
money is heading. Western Union
Money Transfers and Bid Pay are 7) Beware of the too good to be
easily manipulated by scammers, true price.
and you should avoid them at all
costs. Scammers want your money as
quickly as possible. You may find Many lazy scammers will tend to
they offer to close their auction mess up their locations. Their
early with you as the winner auction will state that the
having bid a price which you know product is in the United Kingdom,
to be somewhat of a bargain. If but their ID shows their location
this ever occurs, you should ask to be in China. There is a high
yourself some serious questions. chance that when you contact
Check to see how many bids were these sellers you will receive an
placed before yours. excuse as to why the item is not
located properly, and therefore
8) The language they write in has cannot be collected in person. If
distinct grammatical errors. this ever happens to you, check
with Pay Pal to see where the
A high percentage of scammers seller is located before making a
tend to operate from other purchase.
continents. Due to the fact that
they are not fully familiar with 10) Ask many questions for your
English, they will use a own sake.
translation tool like to create
their emails to you. Keep a Make it a habit to ask your
serious eye out for emails that seller a question. Their response
are not in proper English. There will help you judge how genuine
are many legitimate sellers that they are. If the ask a seller a
cannot speak or write in English question button is not there, do
that well, but this is just not trust them. This could be an
another precaution you must take. account hijacker trying to
prevent buyers from asking any
9) Be sure to know the location questions. They reason they want
of the person. to stop this from happening is
because questions can easily be
routed to the real account owner. amount.
13) Check the address and
11) Keep changing your passwords. telephone number for safety.
Use the seller question link and
Try not to have the same password ask them to send you an email
on your eBay and Pay Pal with their address and telephone
accounts. Make sure you change number. Any honest seller will
your passwords every month on give you their address and
both eBay and Pay Pal. This will telephone number. When you get
also keep scammers and hijackers the number give them a call and
away. see if you get the genuine seller
themselves.
12) Credit card payment
If you can follow these tips, you
For high value items, or for will easily succeed on eBay. Keep
amounts of money you cannot in mind that each day scammers
afford to lose, make sure you pay surf through eBay looking for an
by credit card which has online easy target. As long as you are
fraud protection. This will give armed with the knowledge to keep
you some recourse if the seller you safe, everything will be just
is fraudulent. In this context, fine.
paying via Pay Pal is not the
same. Pay Pal does have a buyer Copyright 2007 Donald Mckenzie Jr
protection scheme, but there are
criteria which the eBay auction
has to satisfy in order to qualify. Keep in mind that Pay type="text/javascript">
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