[BC] Ebay scam

[Keith Hammond]

> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Bruce Doerle
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 7:44 PM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Ebay scam
> 
> Not true, Ebay has told me that you can leave feedback for any item that
you have
> bid on any time you like.  I have left feedback for items that have closed
over
> ninety days preceding that point.  If you know the item number, you can
leave the
> feedback.
[>] 



  Guys, I can answer this question as of yesterday (due to a seller's
apparently doing something "odd" with an item I had purchased) that I still
haven't figured out.

  You can leave feedback for a transaction unless and until a "claim" is
filed in the matter. At that point, the entire transaction is apparently
removed from the "reach" of both parties.

  In my case (the first in eight years of "eBaying"), I received an e-mail
that I thought might've been a phishing attempt telling me that an item I
had won had been deemed as "nonexistent" and the seller was banned from
eBay. The e-mail advised me to "open a claim immediately" so, I did. When I
went back to the "my eBay" page, the entire transaction was then missing.

  Now, oddly enough, the seller has sent me a tracking number! But, I was
beginning to get worried as I had not been able to get a response from the
guy in almost a week after the ending of the auction. On the other hand, for
a less than $5 item, how can I complain very much? At least, it wasn't a
"big ticket" item.

  Keith Hammond
  MonsterFM.com / Broadcast Services