Hi forum members,
I believe I might have fall victim of eBay fraud in pipe auctions.
There are two cases, both are from Germany, eBay.DE and German sellers, and instead of using PayPal or Credit Card, both sellers demanded direct bank transfer which is a commonly practice in here.
I waited for over 3 weeks and the pipes never arrived, while shipment within Germany should arrive within 3 days normally. Their declared way of shipment should have a tracking number but they never provided any. What mystified me was that the photos of the same identical pipe (not only the model) appeared on another auction by another account when I was waiting for mine to arrive. They both stopped replying my message after I opened the formal enquiry on eBay.
What also mystified me was that one of these two seller accounts have 250+ 100% positive reviews? How can such a seller received so many positive reviews? And it seems that he changed his username too at some point as demanded by him to eBay.DE.
What can I do further? And what will eBay do to these bank-transfer based transactions?
I believe I might have fall victim of eBay fraud in pipe auctions.
There are two cases, both are from Germany, eBay.DE and German sellers, and instead of using PayPal or Credit Card, both sellers demanded direct bank transfer which is a commonly practice in here.
I waited for over 3 weeks and the pipes never arrived, while shipment within Germany should arrive within 3 days normally. Their declared way of shipment should have a tracking number but they never provided any. What mystified me was that the photos of the same identical pipe (not only the model) appeared on another auction by another account when I was waiting for mine to arrive. They both stopped replying my message after I opened the formal enquiry on eBay.
What also mystified me was that one of these two seller accounts have 250+ 100% positive reviews? How can such a seller received so many positive reviews? And it seems that he changed his username too at some point as demanded by him to eBay.DE.
What can I do further? And what will eBay do to these bank-transfer based transactions?