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EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS

Questions below are more s/h or miscellaneous-related that you may miss without affecting your total score:

A. (15 points) This website is too anti-seller and is too biased.

B. (5 points) I've done complete research on the seller. Shipping Insurance is optional on the auction. I should get insurance for my $25 item so that I will be protected in case there is damage during shipping.

C. (5 points)So I bought 3 items from the same seller. The total bid price of the 3 auctions is $15 and the first auction's s/h is $7 and the 2nd auction's s/h is $13 and 3rd auction's s/h is $5, but the TOS says the seller combines s/h so i'll only be paying the shipping and handling cost for 1 small box since they'll all fit in 1 small box.

D. (5 points)What's the best course of action if you keep on being ripped off on ebay? How does this affect ebay and its sellers?

E. (5 points)Let's say that you are looking for an expensive item to buy as a gift for someone's birthday in the next 3 months and you've found EXACTLY what you're looking for which is UNIQUE. It's on ebay with an EXCELLENT seller but the seller doesn't offer Paypal via CC or who has no merchant account with CC, BESIDES FRAUD OR ALTERNATIVES(buying from retail/manuf or nearby seller), why should you not purchase from this seller?

F. (5 points)Why is it that when an angry, frustrated, depressed ebay buyer complains on the ebay help chatboards about being ripped off, then an ebay forum chat member smugly responds that they've "never had a fraud-related problem with any ebay sellers in all of their many years!" ??

1. They have more experience.

2. They are more wary dealing with strangers & money.

3. They've been burned before on ebay but won't admit it because they don't want buyers to flee away from ebay

4. They don't buy much on ebay

5. They only deal with certain ebay sellers because of

-less risk and/or
-only stay with sellers they've had good experience with and/or
-these are the only sellers carrying the items they want

6. They:

-verify ebay seller's contact info and
-verify seller feedback history for feedback manipulation and
-only buy from sellers with 98% or more positives who have been selling for 2 years or more and who have sold hundreds or more of items and
-stay away from high fraud categories like electronics/computer items/designer items/autographed items/tickets/travel/cars & vehicles/travel, etc and
-only buy high $$ amounts from sellers who they've VERIFIED INDEPENDENTLY to have business licenses and pay business taxes and
-they don't get sucked into the "too good to be true" deal---they understand that too low a price or too "rare" an item usually means it's a plan to lure you in to rip you off
-usually only buy from sellers who are LOCALLY VERY NEAR their own homes rather than buy from an ebay seller far away from them, especially staying away from sellers located in high fraud countries or whose payment will be sent outside the U.S.
-avoid paying in risky payment types like Western Union or other wire transfer service and will ONLY send payment to the name & address that is issued to that particular business license and they don't get tricked by email or phone to send payment to some other name/address
-especially if it's high $$, they only use buyer-favorable credit cards which will give them back their money if they get ripped off

7. LUCK!--The categories they buy in don't have many scam sellers and since there are more honest sellers on ebay than bad and/or scam sellers, they have YET to run into the bad sellers & scam sellers.

8. Some of them are scam sellers and/or bad sellers themselves

9. They're ebay corporation stooges who get paid or coopted to lie.

10. They're ebay employees whose work duties include whitewashing ebay's DIRTY underbelly to the public especially if they're ebay sellers themselves.

11. Any combination or all of the above

12. You've left something out.(if this is your answer, slashdot me!)

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