Most of you will know Rory Cellan-Jones as the BBC’s technology correspondent. He’s often on the wireless, tube and website talking tech and he was targeted by a scammer when selling on eBay recently.
Guess what. He was selling a smartphone and it was the old address switeroo credit card scam from Nigeria. We wrote earlier this month about how you can sell a smartphone safely on eBay a few weeks back.
The piece makes for interesting reading and Rory makes a very key point: “What’s the biggest problem holding back the development of online commerce? Surely it is the fact that fraud continues to undermine confidence.”
Thankfully he didn’t fall for it. But it is clearly still a problem and one that we would like eBay and PayPal to redouble efforts on preventing. And an educational drive for casual sellers too would be no bad thing either.
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Is anyone else experiencing the same problem ?
In our listings we sell similar items, ie; door handles, we sell the same size handles in various colours, so we used to be able to create a link between all the variations, this link has now been broken for the last 5-6 weeks. Spoke to customer support and they have noted my complaint but will not do anything about it because as far as I can tell I am the only one with this problem.
Would be interested to know if anyone else is suffering from the same problem, any advice would be appreciated ?