Beware, There Are A Lot Of Crooks On Ebay I hope you have not had a negative experience on ebay. I wasvery much enjoying the site until one day, some freak tried tosteal nearly £200 from selling me an item which did not exist.This article explains what happened and also the advice thepolice gave to me.
As I have already mentioned I was having lots of fun buying andselling on Ebay for a number of months without any problems atall. I regularly sold second hand mobile phones and was doingvery well for myself. If I ever bought anything that cost over£100, I would offer to meet the seller somewhere, normally justoff the motorway. I pulled off what I believed was some gooddeals and also managed to offload some of my unwanted itemswhich I either had no interest in anymore or that I had nolonger a need for.
Unfortunately all good things have to come to an end and itcertainly did with ebay.
One particular morning I was looking to purchase another secondhand mobile phone, which I would then re-sell on. There was anadvert for a buy it now phone with the asking price low but notextremely low.
There was a mobile number to phone if I had any questions. Idecided to phone the number, his name was Tony and I asked himthe general type questions. He sounded and seemed really nice,however stated that he was unable to meet me as he was unable todrive as he had not past his test. The alarm bells should havealready started to ring, but me being a bit stupid they didn't.
His house was a long way from
where I lived and reluctantly Iagreed to pay via a bank transfer. He assured me he would postthe phone, that very day via Royal Mail Special Delivery toarrive by 11am the next morning. He seemed very genuine, theyalways do your thinking and that was that.
Next morning have a guess what arrived, yes nothing at all, northe next day, nor the next.
I tried e-mailing him, texting and ringing his mobile phone,guess what, there was no reply.
I realised what a fool I had been, however decided to go to thepolice. They were very helpful and half an hour later I had acrime number however was warned that it was very unlikely Iwould ever see a phone or recieve a refund of my money which was£170. The police advised me to be very careful as they regularlyhave complaints from people who have been defrauded on ebay, Iwas not alone!
Outside the police station I sent Tony a text with the policecrime number. To my shock he phoned me straight away swearing atme but eventually agreed to refund me the money, if I stoppedthe police action against him.
I was very lucky, I am sure many other people as the policestated, never get their money back.
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