posted on March 2, 2006 08:02:56 PM newSadly, the prospect never did get back to me
Looks like it may have been. If this person really wanted the book to have the book, they would have jumped at the opportunity via e-mail.
Seems to me that most scammers are after high-end goods, like jewelry or electronic goods
It is true they want those items, but clearly not limited to those. I have frequently had them want much less costly items as well.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on March 2, 2006 08:05:49 PM newDidn't this raise a red flag? I accept credit cards so I see this scam often. When a thief steals a credit card, they want items right now, before the real card owner knows it is stolen.
Wanting overnight shipping is a red flag especially coupled with not minding how much it will cost. Scammers will often make small purchases online first to check the card number hasn't been reported as stolen, then start running up larger purchases online (often after regular business hours, on weekends, etc) till the credit card companies fraud detection software kicks in. The lag can be minutes to days depending on the issuers software package.
Ask for the bank name and number on the card for verification. If they are legit, they will tell you. Otherwise, they will fight with you over that info. Wondering why you need it when it is their bank. The scammers always baulk at that.
Also ask for the CVV number on the signature strip, plus name and phone number of the issuer. You can easily verify if the CVV is valid and matches the billing address with a phone call.
posted on March 2, 2006 08:29:23 PM new
Postcard buyers are notoriously honest and I often ship before payment is received without getting burned if they have used eBay's checkout. As far as your shipping charges getting messed up, the same thing happened to me, I'm convinced the fault was with Vendio not mapping correctly to eBay changes and listings created with old profiles were really messed up, had to be changed manually, one by one.
posted on March 2, 2006 08:44:16 PM new
stone and agit, I'm sitting here just shaking my head at this info. Seems like it could be almost impossible to detect a red flag (at least every time) on a sale if a scammer is using your average lower-price item as a test to see if the card is still valid/working.
pixiamom, I still don't think I clicked on anything in that shipping section in the syi form, other than to hit the "maximize" button to see what's in there an if anything new has been inserted by ebay. THe really weird part for me was in seeing the $3.50 figure showing up for the "standard flat rate" portion. Even if I did accidentally click in such a way as to select SFR, I would never have put in $3.50. Is that a standard figure that ebay uses for SFR somehow??
The shipping calculator at eBay has been screwed up in varoius ways for months. They have been playing with it and trying to get it straightened out and each time they try something and get it fixed something else happens. I have sent emails and talked to live people. The live people later in the day have an idea of what is going on and they have confided that the "engineers" (eBay's term for IT idiots) are aware of the problem and are trying to fix it (Just like Chamberlin tried to ignore Hitler). The people that do the emails and chats have no clue that the world is even round. I got another reply today on an email I sent last week (so much for 72 hours) telling them that on international shipping they got the insurance calculating US rates and the insurance for overseas is included in the S&H charge (which is at least cheaper than the 4 times the rate they were charging over a week ago). She says that there is no guarantee that the shipping charges are accurate. I then send here a copy of the page on eBay where it talks about using the shipping calculator so your customers can calculate the correct shipping costs and can be assured that they are being charged the right shipping charge. Have not heard back and will probably get another stupid response in a week.
