When Good Ebay'ers Go Bad

An anonymous submitter sent in: "This guy "Stewart Richardson" had over 6000 positive feedbacks on eBay, held a fake estate sale, and scammed around $250,000 out of people before disappearing. 'There seems to be little doubt among his would-be customers that Stewart Richardson pulled off one of the most remarkable con jobs in the almost seven-year history of eBay, and U.S. federal investigators agree.' Some other links: a messageboard and ebay itself. I was scammed on eBay for $3600 a while back. I was able to get my money back because I had a bank issued cashier's check. I had written "For Deposit Only" on the back, and that was crossed out by the recipient. The bank teller should have been suspicious, but was not, and cashed the check. The idiot who had it cashed wrote his bank account number on the back of the cashier's check, and also wrote his Dad's business bank account number on the back and stamped it with his Dad's signature. In the end, the bank reversed the payment, and took the money out of his Dad's account. When his Dad found out, the idiot was in some serious trouble, but I got my money back. There were a few other's scammed in the same transaction, and they recieved about half of the money back after the police started to put the pressure on these guys. The story is much more involved, so I won't go into the rest of it."

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Anti-PayPal sites and lawsuit registration info...

[Lawmeister]

Here a few more links to anti-PayPal sites:

paypalwarning.com

paypalsuit.com

boycott-paypal.com

And here is Google's return on the query "paypal problems".

I wonder if this class action suit is for US residents only, as there are 13 million members, a good number of whom live outside the borders of the States. I recall the HP/Panasonic CD-R drive class action suit a year or two ago and being Canadian I wasn't able to partake in it.

For those of you who want to sign up for this suit, here is the link to the lawyers registration form.

Re:What should be going through your brain....

[Alan]

Normally my #defines start with my fav #.... 42. So I'd use something like

#define USEPAYPAL 4201
#define USEFOOBAR 4202
...

The Wee Forest Folk they were ordering...

[mactari]

Mind you, these are this year's models, and are worth a little less.

Main site:
http://www.weeforestfolk.com/index2.html

football player mouse, $72:
http://www.weeforestfolk.com/images/new2000/ms21 _b .jpg

mouse with fairy, $475:
http://www.weeforestfolk.com/images/1news5.jpg

"Little mice who lived in a shoe", $428:
http://www.weeforestfolk.com/images/new2000 /m189_b .jpg

Purchasing these on eBay and getting scammed -- $175 (article says that's what eBay's insurance pays out if you get scammed).