ebay trickery

wild_eyed

how do these scams work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41002&item=5702202994&rd=1

buying a link to a website that sells ipods for 30 dollars. but people are buying them.

dudara

they're a kind of pryamid scheme, only the operators refer to them as a matrix!!

For mobile phone ones that I've seen, you purchase a CD of wallpapers, etc for £20 and you're placed on a list for a phone. Depending on the phone in question, once maybe 15 people join, the person on top gets sent the phone for free. You can leapfrog people in the queue by getting friends to join, but you can imagine that the odds aren't good if you're late joining the list.

Stephen

The only reason they involve the CD is to make it quasi-legal. Most countries have outlawed pyramid schemes where no actual product is sold.

Civilian_Target

I'm really surprised ebay doesn't clamp down harder on that sort of thing.

John R

Why would they? I'm sure they get their listing fee.

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by Civilian_Target
I'm really surprised ebay doesn't clamp down harder on that sort of thing.

Thats why the accept no responceabilty for any item sold on Ebay.