I was perusing cnn.com while at work when I ran across a link to this article:
eBay Fraud
If you go to the article, I'd like to point out some choice examples of "buyer stupidity."
"Gary Weintraub, who lost $10,000 trying to purchase a 1981 DeLorean (he got most of it back), certainly won't use eBay to buy a car again. "I'd only buy something small, like under $50," he says."
"John Allred, a San Francisco resident who lost $3,000 <bought a Mac> to Smith, wishes, for instance, that he could have seen the different price categories Smith's sales fell into."
My question which I pose to you Techimo'ers is, what the hell are these people smoking? Would you even for a moment consider buying a computer or a car on eBay without an escrow service to protect yourself? I don't consider myself particularly paranoid, but when I just purchased a laptop on eBay which was only $750, I used an escrow even though it added $40 bucks to the total!!!!
I guess I just don't have much sympathy for people too dumb to protect their assets and who don't realize that
not everybody is perfectly honest - especially in the wilderness of eBay and the Internet.
skybolt_1