[Mccoypottery-talk] Fraud warning

[Chris Jubic]

Ditto to that Pat and it goes double for me! Kudos to you for telling it
like it is!

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From: "Patti" <jplev1@comcast.net>
To: <mccoypottery-talk@lists.mccoypottery.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Mccoypottery-talk] Fraud warning


> these  horror stories don't surprise me since ebay was hacked  they took
> over paypal and put it on their servers  when  the take over  was
> approved  ebay   doesn't even  know exactly what their servers are
> doing al the time I got ripped off by  their billpoint  twice and never
> got  reimbursed . y banks  are insured for fraud  people need to know
> their banks can take back that money and file charges against ebay..
> want to hear a real horror story . My daughter whole identity was stolen
> she is just finding  out  people are using her  info to  get credit
> cards  she thinks her info was  taken from yahoo or one of the  online
> CC companies that were hacked  the person or persons  are using yahoo
> addresses  using her to  open them  but Yahoo says  unless she can  give
> them a supeona  they will not tell her  where  they person is or what Cc
> companies they registered  . She owns a biz and  has   lots to use if
> this goes on  now the FBI is involved I suggest  people  report this
> stuff to the FBI ftc etc. > Ebay  thinks they can  get away with
> anything  and so far they have  they don't care about us  all they care
> about is stock  numbers and  how much they can squeeze  us for to pay
> their expenses  ebay seller  pay their operating  costs not  their
> profits  while we sit  scraping to make a buck  ebays ceo is buying and
> selling  ebay stoke  (common)  making millions  within months . the FOO
> has calls  small ebay users  clutter  and stated they were trying  by
> raising fees to weed  us out. I  only do ebay when I really need to they
> are  greedy  money rules people  are  collateral damage. Ebay  caters
> only to power seller they have different standard then  we small
> potatoes dealers . They  say Microsoft is a monopoly well  ebay is  in
> my view much worse  . I have never had  issues with paypal  until ebay
> force  them to  had it over to them by threatening the owners with  a
> full buy out of all common share which would have given them  highest  %
> it had already begun  ebay flunkies did a mass  buy on paypal stiock  it
> was a   hostile take over  the  poor owner had  no choice  but to  hand
> it over   in  trade foe  ebay stock and  had to  walk away when the dust
> settled  due to  ebays  greedy moves . Paypal  support system  stinks
> even more then before  since  ebay put its own people  in there .
> I  use paypal and will continue to  because its  easier for me  but
> when ebay  changes even more policy  on it like taking away our  right
> to sell privately like they  have  with  showing our  links  on
> postings then I will  stop  using it  . Ebay eventually  ruins every
> company they buy  half.com  is a good example  they forced out the
> former owner and are  within  the year  closing the site and  putting
> it  on theirs  costs will rise  for book dealers.
> Ebay knows   we can't sue  its in our agreement  members can't sue ebay
> . so  skip over the  ebay  red tape and  gp directly to the  FEDs  if
> more did  maybe ebay will clean up its  dirty dealing act. boycotts
> don't work   most won't try  cause  ebay is  like a  cult to  way too
> many users  they live and breath ebay  its worse then  amway  rah rah
> rallies when ebay  starts its smooth talk  to its freebie  workers.
> This has been a sore spot with me  for a very long time  but as long as
> we let it ebay will be the only game in town  paypal will  be  drive
> into the ground  till ebay  makes it no more.
> Our options for selling a few and  not really productive enough  to
> sustain  people like me who  used to rely on it for  our sole income
> handicapped disabled and  single or stay at home parents .
> Ebay is the net  unless the   people  in force  try to take back the
> net  ebay will always  rule   the online world  they are getting that
> powerful.
> billion dollar companes can get away with anything .
>
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