eBay customers left in the lurch

budnonymous · Top Poster

You Know Paypal Is Having Problems When...

284dan · Senior Member

Do you have any details on the rumor I heard about eBay getting rid of LW? I wonder if the Lunch Ladies (Slanderous Sandy and Clinically Insane) will continue harassing users after LW is gone.

xppman · Top Poster

I hear on good authority that these companies and their contractors could be facing
some pretty serious charges, heard words like:
racketeering, collusion, conspiracy to commit fraud, fraud and a host of other 'lesser charges'
that in some instances carry some pretty hefty fines.

We can only hope this could indeed be in some of these people's near future.

budnonymous · Top Poster

The 'glitch' excuse is wearing every thin, and folks worldwide are complaining and being vocal in asking/advising others to complain to authoritative bodies.

There are a myriad of troubles with PP right now, and you seriously have to wonder what in the world is really going on?

Why can't this multi-billion dollar corp fix their site?
eb has finally conceded somewhat about the site access issues, in Oz and a repeat statement on USA bds

I see another very recent article about the xss flaw on PP, (just a bit earlier this month) which has been ongoing since at least February, and has now been claimed to have been 'fixed' twice (if not more) I believe.
Interesting also to note some of the persons finding and reporting these flaws to legit security related sites ( and thereby actually helping secure the site) are from, ahem, Romania, I believe.

Could just be there are so many holes some crafty hacker types can just do a little presto chango on the codes and find new ones?

Anyone who has seen the basic codes can play around.

As I read somewhere, don't learn to hack, hack to learn.

-- Edited by budnonymous at 17:34, 2008-07-28

xppman · Top Poster

It's all intentional and a money grab guys.

The signs are everywhere.

Only a fool would keep money in a PP account at this point.
They could close up shop and all lthose people who where still foolish enough
to 'trust' this criminal outfit, will be SOL.

budnonymous · Top Poster

Did you see this yet? It is actually a couple days old now I think. I spotted it first maybe at exposingtheplayers blog

Huge scam. The post over there is much better.

Basically, the one of the biggest if not the biggest seller in Oz seems to have scammed the living bleep out of everyone and they in turn found out that PP "protection" is worthless.

Need I say more?

eBay customers left in the lurch

Mitchell Bingemann | July 29, 2008

ONE of Australia's largest eBay sellers has gone into liquidation, leaving hundreds of its customers out of pocket and with little hope of receiving purchased goods.

The Queensland-based company, which is registered as EBS International but trades on eBay under the name ebusiness-supplies, has had liquidation firm SV Partners appointed as its external administrator, according to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

Queensland police have said fraud investigators are currently looking into 13 complaints against the company.

Ebusiness-supplies ranks as Australias seventh largest seller of items on eBay. The company sold a wide range of items including exercise equipment, electric guitars and furniture.

Since being wound-up, ebusiness-supplies has sent a letter to customers saying it will not be able to complete any current orders and a creditors meeting will be called next month.

PayPal Australia has established a fund to reimburse customers affected by EBS's closure.

-- Edited by budnonymous at 09:47, 2008-07-30

budnonymous · Top Poster

More at auctionbytes

Comments follow this.

Tue July 29 2008 12:16:11
eBay users in Australia are reeling after a Hong Kong-based PowerSeller has allegedly left many buyers in the lurch after its business failed. The Age newspaper said the seller, ebusiness_supplies, did over $15 million in revenue last year. It quotes PayPal Australia's managing director Andrew Pipolo as saying, "We're actually not liable for it but it's something that, because of the circumstances of this particular seller, the impact on such a large number of buyers, we've made the decision to make a fund available to cover the expense."

Sellers who had rallied against eBay Australia's failed attempt to move toward a PayPal-only marketplace say the incident proves PayPal fails to protect all users. In an open letter to reporters on the eBay discussion boards, they wrote, "Do not be fooled : the establishment of a special fund to refund those who used PayPal on this occasion is a public admission by ebay and PayPal that PayPal Buyer Protection is entirely illusory."

I can't help but think of BuySafe in cases like these. The fact is, eBay has not embraced a service that could help minimize the impact of large-seller bankruptcies.

xppman · Top Poster

Yea I saw that.

Love to see the PP 'protection' kick in.

Bet it wont.

You know this company sure has screwed themselves in their effort
to become some third world insurances scam.

All they had to do was be a transfer service.. that's it.
It WAS eBay's doing though, and we know how trustworthy eBay is. NOT

budnonymous · Top Poster

Classic. Chargeback from 2000.

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