Their feedback, showed a very large percentage of transactions with another id in the paypal confirmed location the items were shipped to (which was far different then the ebay registered location). These ids had bought and sold to each other over 2 years piles of times…and amazingly were ale to leave feedback 2 minutes after the item ended.

Since ebay has hidden so much information I used goofbay to see buys/sells going back months. It appeared items bough from one of these ids would get sold by the other. It seemed really strange that the person had bought a number of items the same as the one I sold, and never left feedback except when their shill bidding made them win it from themself

So I probably broke some rules and messaged a couple of the sellers that the buyer hadn’t left feedback for, and sure enough their items “hadn’t arrived” either.

The buyer opened a paypal claim against me, and I told them I knew what they were doing and I’d be making a police report as soon as I lost the money. The paypal claim was closed, and buyer left me a neg while sending me a message that my item had initially been delivered to the wrong address and had just been received. I told the buyer I would ask Canada Post to investigate why so much o their mail isn’t be delivered properly if the neg wasn’t removed, and the buyer asked to remove it.

I know claims against some other sellers were closed at that time. The buyer had over 300 all positive feedback, at a glance looked like a great ebayer. Who knows how much they’ve stolen from others. it appeared they only left feedback as a buyer for very low priced items or items that would have to be sent tracked.

Ebay removed a few of the recent feedback between this persons 2 ids but left most of it, and contact info was changed (still false I believe) on several of us reporting this to them. neither Id NARU though (no activity since though.

Without being able to contact some other sellers I wouldn’t have been able to know for sure the not received complaint was false, and there would be no way to get together to go to the police if necessary…and the buyer would be ripping off more people as I type

It probably would have been me in trouble with ebay for contacting others and threatening this fraudster with a police report if he’d reported me to them.

I routinely contact my trading partners through messaging because of my niche (punk+heavy metal vinyl records) is inducive to buyers/sellers chatting about bands that we like.

I was under the assumption eBay wanted us to stick with their internal system. Well, now I’ll just directly email my trading partners.

eBay might have stuck with Skype when their model was insertion fee based.

That they have not kept Skype is a reflection of the ‘current’ final value fee based model.

Next year who knows?

We might go around again quite soon!

PS Listing quality would undoubtedly be improved by an insertion fee based model.

It feels so rude not to answer! So ebay 2.0 in fact.