marcn
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:21:00 PM new
[ edited by marcn on Jan 18, 2004 10:15 AM ]
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koto1
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:32:27 PM new
You see the amount of info they need on you? INCLUDING...SSN, Ebay ID, Password...yeah right. Smells like a very elaborate scheme.
"Who's tending the bar?  Sniping works up a thirst"
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wgm
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:32:41 PM new
and you get $50.00 for each of us that click on this link and sign up? 
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"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to the people who sleep under the very blanket of freedom I provide, and then question the manner in which I provide it. I'd rather you just said 'thank you' and went on your way." - A Few Good Men
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tomwiii
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:42:27 PM new
Hey! I just got my SEAL:
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/vidrat/
[ edited by tomwiii on Jan 10, 2004 04:44 PM ]
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OhMsLucy
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:43:54 PM new
Marcn, I hope, for your sake, it's not a scam!
Lucy
I grow old...I grow old...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. T.S. Eliot
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kiara
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:56:06 PM new
You can read about BuySafe here.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y203/m12/abu0108/s03
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aintrichyet
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posted on January 10, 2004 04:56:55 PM new
It seems they will take 1% fee of final sale for each successful ebay transaction?
https://www.buysafe.com/popup-dynamic.asp?pageid=127
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marcn
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posted on January 10, 2004 05:10:50 PM new
It is definitely not a scam. They are running the promotion for just a few weeks to get the word out to sellers. This is one service that will truly protect the buyer unlike SquareTrade.
Marc
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aintrichyet
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posted on January 10, 2004 05:12:11 PM new
and they want 1% of final sale price ... and they don't tell you how to unsubscribe [if you want them to discontinue taking the 1%]?
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CBlev65252
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posted on January 10, 2004 06:06:09 PM new
tom
Are you serious? Did you really do it? I'm curious. I looked at the site and all the information they are asking me for makes me kind of nervous. More opinions from the experts here would be helpful.
Cheryl
http://tinyurl.com/vm6u
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tomwiii
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posted on January 10, 2004 06:22:26 PM new
Cheryl: that was "tongue-out-of-ckeek" -- literally!
I caught Ralphie trying to send them my SSN -- he's in the DOGHOUSE for the rest of the weekend!
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/vidrat/
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marcn
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posted on January 10, 2004 06:33:52 PM new
aintrichyet:
You pick the listings that you want to have the seal on. If you do not pick any, there is no fee.
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fenix03
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posted on January 10, 2004 07:54:38 PM new
Cheryl - unless you are selling items that you want to purchase bonds for I wouldn't bother. THe auctionbytes artucles says that they research your personal credit worthiness (people with large debts are more likely to be scam artists?).
As for the - How do you have to tell them to stop telling them to take 1% - from what I understood reading the article, there is a flat $5 monthly fee and then you select the individual auction you wish wish t apply the bonds to and it is oon those auctions that they get the 1%.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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beatnikera
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posted on January 10, 2004 09:00:20 PM new
They want WAY too much personal information -- social security number,
drivers license, bank account numbers, birthdate, home address, business address, web site address, telephone numbers -- the list seems endless. Absolutely NO way, Jose!
I've got 1,688 positive feedbacks with 5 neutrals and 4 negatives (old ones at that). I think you can "buysafe" from me without using "buysafe."
Besides, I don't need the $100
for all that BS.
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ltray
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posted on January 10, 2004 09:16:15 PM new
Sounds like a great marketing research project. How much money will it take before you are willing to give a stranger everything they ever needed to make your life a living h3ll.
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auctionACE
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posted on January 10, 2004 09:52:39 PM new
Minimum Requirement: $1,000 per Month on ebay
I saw no banking info required on the forms before I bailed out at the accept TOS sheet
These free $100 signups ( ends 1/12/04 ) are for ebay PowerSellers and not hobby sellers.
It's a seven page application that is not worth the time and info you have to give up.
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CBlev65252
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posted on January 11, 2004 06:19:51 AM new
Thanks, Tom. I knew you were too intelligent to fall for this one, but I know that Ralphie can get a bit carried away. Ralphie needs to get his own SSN. 
You know what they say, "If it seems too good to be true, it probaby is." I looked over the information they are requesting and there's now way I'd submit all of that especially over the Internet. In order to even sign-up for online banking, you have to fill out a form and take it into a branch where they verify that you are who you say you are. At least with my bank you do. So, hand over all this info to people I don't know? Not.
Cheryl
http://tinyurl.com/vm6u
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neroter12
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posted on January 11, 2004 07:49:46 AM new
[ edited by neroter12 on Jan 11, 2004 07:51 AM ]
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neroter12
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posted on January 11, 2004 07:51:06 AM new
Lol Ace, and if you are a PS with a good income, are you really going to care about $100.00 back for the time and 1% of your sales to this site?
Cheryl, be nice if there really was something good enough to be true. (Be cool if there really was a Santa Claus, too
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auctionACE
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posted on January 11, 2004 09:33:06 AM new
It's one of those 'good in theory and poor in application' ideas that someone thought up and got some bigshots to buy into it. PayPal got it's big start with it's referrals system and they may be trying to repeat history.
I believe in military talk it's called an ill-concieved idea or a goatf*** or a ratf***.
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tomwiii
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posted on January 11, 2004 10:16:41 AM new
That's DISGUSTING! UN-NATURAL!
OTOH: As Clara said: "Where's the SHEEP?"
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/vidrat/
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horsey88
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posted on January 11, 2004 10:16:55 AM new
"It is definitely not a scam. They are running the promotion for just a few weeks to get the word out to sellers. This is one service that will truly protect the buyer unlike SquareTrade."
Any service that gets 1% of my sales for a dog damn seal is definately a scam.
Unless of course research shows that using said seal will result in my average sale price increasing by 39%. Oh I forgot using Ebay's Bold Feature already accomplishes that.
[ edited by horsey88 on Jan 11, 2004 10:23 AM ]
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ebayvet
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posted on January 11, 2004 11:31:04 AM new
It may be legit, but that is just too much personal info in one place for a company I've never heard of. $100 may be nice, but paying 1% when I basically don't have a problem means this isn't for me.
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marcn
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posted on January 11, 2004 12:52:42 PM new
[ edited by marcn on Jan 18, 2004 10:17 AM ]
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on January 11, 2004 01:55:32 PM new
An interesting note: They have been registered for just over 3 years now and have never had a transaction on this user ID. I understand that they might have been holding this for a specific use, but it does make you wonder what's up.
I wonder if they have multiple ID's and once they do their background check, you can use ANY of your ID's. That would mean the "individual" or "company" is bonded and not the ID's.
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auctionACE
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posted on January 11, 2004 03:00:39 PM new
I love Vendio!
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[ edited by auctionACE on Jan 11, 2004 09:37 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on January 11, 2004 06:55:54 PM new
I don't do that kind of sales...but even if I did, NOBODY gets my SSN, particularly not for a crummy hundred bucks. Get ready for the spam-load of a lifetime..I'd check my credit rating pretty often after giving all this info away.
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Mi abuelita me dijo "en boca cerrada no entran moscas".
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auctionACE
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posted on January 11, 2004 09:38:55 PM new
If you give them your ebay ID and password then they can look at your payments to ebay to verify if you do indeed sell $1,000 per month on ebay.
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marcn
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posted on January 17, 2004 07:37:21 PM new
See message below...This guy is nuts!
[ edited by marcn on Jan 18, 2004 10:15 AM ]
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classicrock000
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posted on January 18, 2004 09:05:44 AM new
marcn-after your last foolish statement,I feel either you are the one running buysafe, or your justifying your idiotic descision
give someone over the internet your SSN number.If this is legitimate,why in hell do they need your SSN #??????
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