Oct 22
Getting Scammed on eBay
What's up with eBay? It's not even usable any more. What's worse is all the fraud.I just finished a listing of my Gateway P 7805u FX Edition. Everything was going fine into some scammer bid twice as much as the top bid. I suspected fraud.
Wouldn't you know it, an hour or so after the auction, ebay contacted me to let me know the auction/listing was cancelled because a user's account had been compromised.
Is this an isolated incident? I don't think so.
A noted security expect gets shafted twice and was even willing to try a third time before selling the laptop to a reader of his blog.
Now what do I do? I gave up on fraudBay. They deleted my entire listing so I would have to go through and create it again. No way I'm going through all that worked just to get scammed again. At least not at this point.
Instead I listed it on Amazon. We'll see how it turns out.
If you're interested in a great gaming/development laptop with Windows 7 installed you can check out my listing on Amazon:
I'm selling it so I can but a Windows Home Server and a new TV. The little boys videos and pictures are more important than my mobile gaming (I guess). I also have my eee pc 1005HA which is good enough for checking mail and light web surfing. I don't think I could do development on the eee.
