Ebay love it or is it a ground for scammers and fraudsters?

@Beaver72 (446)
August 25, 2008 4:43am CST
What do you think of ebay? Have you picked up a bargain? Have you had a bad ebay experience? Do you sell on ebay? Generally speaking items i've bought from ebay have been of acceptable quality. Is it a case of 'you get what you pay for'?
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gems69
@gems69 (107)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
as i know ebay is an online buying and selling a product but i never heard anything like what you said and my friends are also a member of that website he never told me like that in terms of payments i dont what is the style......maybe they have a percentage on it its just my opinion....
Beaver72
@Beaver72 (446)
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25 Aug 08
Ebay charge a fee for placing a listing for sellers, thats how they make their profits and with so many sellers available they must be making a tidy profit
gems69
@gems69 (107)
• Philippines
30 Aug 08
my friend said that ebay is free for placing a product to sell from the sellers but if the product is sold ebay will have a percentage on each product that the way they can have a profit.....
TheSource17
@TheSource17 (15)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
yes. we cant remove the fact that ebay may have scammers and fraudsters. that is why when you surf and look for possible items to purchase on the site, you need to be meticulous enough about the product and the seller. is the seller trusted, what do others think about them, is he/she a powerseller and some other stuff. ebay offers a lot of choices. so if youre doubting on a product of perhaps the integrity of the seller, then go the next one. i love ebay. i got a bargain. no bad experiences yet, hopefully none.
Beaver72
@Beaver72 (446)
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25 Aug 08
I agree that you need to check out a sellers reputation before you buy but in light of the fact that sellers can gain false positive feedback through actually paying people to give them positive feedback can you really be sure that seller is genuine? Ebay are trying to stamp out fraudsters but with the ebay community being so vast it's going to be an impossible to task to wipe it out completely
James72
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
25 Aug 08
I haven't used it in a very long time but I did use to buy things from there in the past. There are definitely fraudsters and scammers operating through this site as there are with most sites! But at least ebay have some solid measures in place to try to keep this to a minimum. The seller ratings system for example at least allowed us to see how others have fared before parting with our hard earned money!