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Quiz #69 to End
69. (5 points)
So you've analyzed the seller's auctions and his feedback and you like what you see, especially since the Seller has the icon "Seller Verified." You then go to check/verify/confirm Contact Info. You call the seller and he answers. However,
- the phone number listed in ebay's "Contact info" for the seller is not in the major phone directories or the seller's own local town's phone directory
- you call up businesses and people near the seller's location and they know nothing or little about him
What is the best course of action to take?
- Email or call the seller and ask him for more info and references and business license/business taxes info
- Go to the location yourself and check out his business
- Go ahead and pay only by a legitimate escrow company or paypal via a buyer-favorable credit card
- Don't deal with this seller. He may be a scammer.
70.
(5 points)Why is ebay very unfavorable for the honest ebayer, esp. honest buyers?
- Ebay is not regulated by the government.
- Ebay doesn't care about its reputation as a business center since it only cares about making $$$'s.
- Only sellers, not buyers pay $$$'s directly to ebay.
- Ebay views itself as a "venue only" like a newspaper classifieds section so they can neatly "cleanse" themselves of any obligations to the honest sellers & honest buyers being ripped off on its site.
- Ebay doesn't really care about being proactive (e.g. verification of its members) as long as it's open to more and more "new" members who have little idea of the amount & severity of fraud on its site until it's too late and they've been ripped off.
- Since Ebay has a whole planet of employees and coopted "volunteers" in their "community," Ebay can always point out that the obligation to observe & report fraud to them lies with the "community" and not with ebay----This is a clean & tidy JUSTIFICATION for ebay to keep up on their sign post so that they can escape being proactive against scammers while racking up possible stolen CC bank interest $$'s from hijacked seller accounts, extra seller fees from honest sellers/bad buyers transactions, and the $$'s from bad sellers who dutifully pay their fees to ebay while ripping off some to most to all their buyers.
- All of the above
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