• Disclaimer
• How to Use the Website
• Quiz Look Over--Can you answer nearly 100% of these questions correctly? If not, you're an easy scam victim.

• Alternatives-BUY ONLY LOCAL OR WELL-KNOWN REPUTABLE
• Fields that Scammers Inhabit
• Scam links

• Contact Info
• Phone Book/Phone Operator
• Address/Phone No. Scam Tricks
• Neighbors
• Paying Taxes? & Business License
• Non-Governmental Agencies & Ratings Sites AND READING BETWEEN THE LINES
• The Bonded Seller

• Shipping/Handling
• Insurance
• Seller Pulling Auctions

• Private feedback/Private Auctions
• Pre-approval Auctions
• How to find Neutrals/Negs
• Research/Analyze Current Auctions
• Positive Seller with Recent Negs
• Excellent Feedback %
• 0 and Low Feedback
• Neg Feedback Details
• No Neg Means?
• Too Many Negs
• Buyer Feedbackers
• Old Auctions to Compare With

• Feedback Padding
• Feedback Shilling
• Negative FB Software Removal
• FB removal by Ebay Insiders

• Triangulation
• Fencing
• Money laundering

• Violence
• Violence After Buying item

• Firewall Protection
• Anti-Virus Protection
• Webmail
• Browser
• Anti-Spyware Minimum Requirements

• Don't deal with Strangers IN OR OUT of ebay
• Benefits of dealing outside of ebay with KNOWN-heavily CONFIRMED SELLERS

• Phishing Websites on the Web Part 2

-Neg FB Fallout

• Payment Forms

  -PAYPAL
  -CC & their policies
  -MONEY WIRE TRANSFERS
  -BIDPAY
  -POSTAL MONEY ORDERS
  -CASHIER'S CHECK
  -C.O.D
  -ESCROW

• Evidence

• Fear of Negative Feedback

• Why Ebay is a Scammer's Paradise
• Scam Helpers
• Who's really "Stupid" & "Greedy"??
• IT'S YOUR FAULT excuse---"Ebay's just a venue--You as buyer read the agreement"
• What ebay Membership Really Means

• Ebayers post about their ripoffs
• Vigilante Bidders-The Guardian Angels of Honest ebay buyers

• Ebayers Leaving Ebay
• Spanish Ebay Revolt
• EBAY SAYS "LESS THAN 1% FRAUD ON EBAY" --- - STATISTIC THAT LIES
• Over 1700 Complaints with the BBB and counting...

• The Ebay "Cure"
• Scammer Evolution Online-Staying 5 Steps Ahead
• Scambaiting
• Other Alternatives besides Ebay
• Quiz
• Quiz Answers

• RISKTABLE: How many risks do you tolerate? How to guage your comfort for risk.

• SPEEDY SHEET is a summary of bidding safely before, during the auction, and immediately after the auction. Sorry it's so long. I intended it truly to be a "Speedy" Sheet, but once I got started and kept thinking of all the hazards we buyers/bidders have to avoid from bad sellers & scam sellers and what precautions we had to take and watch out for, it continued to grow and grow and grow..... Print it out and hang it on your computer before you bid if it helps you.

• RISKS - the game of ebay--Many risks, few rewards!!---RISKS of bidding on expensive items and "Sending Payment" Procedures

• ****Frequent ebay and website abbreviations/terms

As far as updates, I continually update the entire site to clear up, enhance, edit, or add to the info, but I only list updates on the Updates page that are very different enough or important enough compared with the info that was originally written on the website. In addition to the Updates page, you may want to glance at this Index page every few months to see any real "basic info" changes. END OF EBAY/ONLINE SCAMS INFO

OTHER INTERESTS OF MINE BESIDES EBAY/ONLINE SHOPPING SAFELY

GREAT WEBSITE FOR LOST PETS: PET HARBOR

NEW ITEM: MUSIC I get so pissed off with the way the RIAA in the name of the major record labels take away everyone's rights from going after file-sharing to DRM laws to controlling what you can and can't do on your computer. Here's a link for a few music sites, articles, organizations where you can get better music than the Britney Queers and M$donnas of the world that the major record labels foist on all of us.

NEXT RANT: Why do scholarly Archaeologists refer to "Ancient" Savage, Bloodthirsty, Obviously Primitive Human-Sacrificing Inca & Mayan & Aztec South American Civilizations (that have not really contributed much to Modern Civilization as we know it) as "Advanced"???!!!

The NATURAL HERBAL way to Heal one's self without always being forced to resort to a doctor. My uncle's bout with gout and chronic kidney polycystic disease and what i did to help. Hope this helps anyone out there with the same or some of the same problems with themselves or their families/friends.--Added Oct 28, 2005 Read here.

Added Nov. 26, 2005----Recipes i can't forget:

• Tender Bird
• Melt in your Mouth Megaburger
• Spaghetti with Eggplant, Butternut Squash and Shrimp (a Giada)

Added Nov. 26, 2005----Global Exchange Store-Buy your Christmas & Birthday & Me Gifts with Fair Trade Products, YOU DON'T LIKE CHILD SLAVERY, NEITHER DO I---- non-child slavery products from chocolates, coffee/tea to gourmet to clothes and books

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Thanks to Draac's website for their easy & free tutoring in table html.

Thanks to Ultimate Paint for their semi-easy but free paint program so that i could paint some "serious" illustrations! heheehe......But seriously, i chose Ultimate Paint because it's not an overbloated program that would take up all my computer space AND it gives me enough advanced features that i need e.g. to create pictures with dialogs----Some of the commands are difficult to work with like simple pasting and background/text coloring and resizing canvass(to make the area bigger for editing/creating), but read the help instructions and after a while of continual practice, it's a piece of cake!

Thanks finally to Irfanview(free to download at download.com or nonags.com) for their free picture viewer which i used in combination with Ultimate Paint for the "serious" illustrations;-)