posted on December 17, 2002 01:54:39 AM new
There is an eBay buyer with three ids. She is a compulsive buyer, may have as many as 60 pages of bids for a 30-day bidding history.
Over the last year her ids have been NARUed numerous times for nonpayment. Sellers have left many negs. She appealed each suspension, got sellers to lift NPBs, and was reinstated, only to do the cycle all over again for nonpayments.
Sellers wrote eBay complaining each time this happened. Lots of sellers were inconvenienced. eBay never took action, just let the cycles go on, responded to sellers that there was insufficient proof that the ids were all related to each other.
Ok, everyone is wondering why I am posting this story. Here is the new twist. For the first time, all three ids are suspended, looks like it is finally permanent. Can you guess how eBay discovered the relationship between the three ids?
Yep, for you smart ones who guessed correctly, it is because eBay now owns Paypal. As you know, Paypal users have just one account. All of the emails matching the different eBay user ids are congregated under the one Paypal account, not separately like with Billpoint.
See what I am getting at? If a user has multiple ids, and messes up just one id with infractions, eBay now knows positively that the other ids are linked because it is under the one Paypal account.
We all wonder why eBay could not do this before, link the accounts, especially with the sellers that shill. But what these fradulent ids do typically is register one id to each of their relatives, which is how there is a different name and address for each id. The relatives might not even know about it. Of course, it doesn't work that way with Paypal, because of the need for bank account and credit card information. So the shysters have their one real account registered with Paypal as the primary account, then add all of the emails registered as fraudulent ids on eBay.
For this lady I mentioned, eBay suspended her three buying ids and suspended her Paypal account too.
I hope what I wrote wasn't too confusing. I think it is a positive outcome of eBay acquiring Paypal.
[ edited by hotcupoftea on Dec 17, 2002 01:56 AM ]
posted on December 17, 2002 02:49:56 AM new
Very positive, but I have a negative. What if you sell your item after the auction closes and you don't pay the ebay fees. Then that buyer pays through PayPal will eBay find out about it? Just asking for furthur reference.
