Ebay-PayPal-Craigslist & things like that

[BKOnce]

E-mail phising is easy..

1. Create an identical Paypal.com web site;

2. Start email the real account holders & asking them to update their info, etc.. by clicking on that phone email/web link in that email page... directing to your address/web site ...

3. Now, use/program your server web bots, start recording their keyboard strokes for alphabet characters, ie., and guessing their Paypal password & ID out...,

4. Finally, extract their ID/Pass, now sign in with their real Paypal.com, ...and start... Hacking.. 4 profits & fun!!!...

[CindyLou]

you can do ebay from anywhere! you can print the postage from right there off your computer at the end of the auction and give to your postman! the only thing you will need is a scale to weigh the package or just request the flat rate postage boxes from your postman at no cost and do away with the weight need.

[LisaM]

I Ebayed as a full-time job for about 6 years. My husband and I bought designer bedding straight from the manufacturer. It was over runs and slightly irregulars. It was a super easy job and I loved making money working my own hours from my own house! Unfortunately I had an issue with my supplier...you know...the usual, someone else out there offered more money for the entire inventory, so we were kinda shushed out the door.

I keep saying I'm going to get back into it and really do some research about another product line, but I've been a little lazy about it. Shame on me, right?

[Keebler]

I've done a fair amount of buying and selling on eBay since the early days and my feedback is in the #####. In fact, my account shows that I'll have been an eBay member for ###### years next month!

Among the unlikely things I've bought on eBay, there was...

- Three vehicles (One is the picture on the left.)
- A refrigerator
- Shoes
- Brake pads

I also had a good deal of success selling some stuff they threw away at work.

From experience I can say that there's more ways to be ripped off by PayPal as a seller than as a buyer. Most buyers pay with a Credit Card and all they need to do is dispute the charge and they'll almost always win.

When a dispute happens, the Credit Card debits PayPal and PayPal automatically takes money from your account to cover it. No amount of dispute with PayPal will resolve the problem because the standard merchant agreement with VISA or MasterCard makes it possible. Given the choice between PayPal losing the money or you, PayPal will choose you every time. Even if you've followed all of PayPal's rules, you're still out the money. Never sell anything using PayPal that you aren't willing to give away for free!

I'm completely disgusted with PayPal and I even closed my account. Do a Google search for PayPal problems and you'll learn enough to scare yourself away from them forever -- unless you're willing to lose some money once in a while.

The only thing you should accept is a USPS Postal Money order. Yes, these can be forged like all of the others. However, you should only cash them at the Post Office where you'll know instantly if there's trouble. If you cash them with your bank it can take days beyond the usual hold period before you find out it was a counterfeit. Imagine holding the funds for a week and then shipping out the expensive item only to have the bank reverse the transaction a week after that! At the Post Office you'll walk out with cash and there's no recourse if they made the mistake by accepting a forgery.

Other forums I visit have a For Sale or Trade section and I've often thought how neat it would be to have the same thing here. I can imagine the members who are pre-Bankruptcy needing cash and selling things to members post-Bankruptcy who need to get good deals on things. I wonder if the Moderators have ever considered it!

[chpxiii]

I looked into that, but they don't do books, and textbooks are the biggest things I need to get rid of (I went to graduate school and then taught several semesters and I have probably 10 different intro textbooks that publishers send me gor free to get me to use their book in my classes). I don't want to throw them away - what a waste, but don't have time to deal with half.com, and I *really* don't want to have them clogging up the bookshelves anymore. As my daughter gets older, her book collection expands and I need more room for her stuff and to get rid of all those other books.

Do you have a Half Price Books, or some such similar outfit, in your area? Half Price books will buy books. They may not always give top dollar, but they usually give something.

http://www.halfpricebooks.com/

[Bandit]

A lot of good information & experience in this thread. I want to get back to everyone soon, it will take a little time to reply to everything.
This brings up a lot of questions and answers I have been wondering about.

Much thanks to everyone for your postings.

[tinroofrusted]

How? From the phising email scams? That's not paypal's fault...

Nope.

PayPal has been known to freeze accounts, clear out bank accounts, refund the buyers money nearly every time, etc.

Do a search for "pay pal sucks" and see what happens!