Passing through eBay I still see people going after schemes, after schemes, after schemes. Scams are growing bigger by the day not only on eBay, but on numerous websites online and auction sites runned by the good guys - respectable brands.

For many of you that may not know, auctions sites, especially eBay have a running tour d’France running by the hour from people listing auctions in the wrong places. Situation being for eBay fraud prevention department being, they have massive amounts of sellers with the intent to selling supposed wholesale distributor list, but listing as for example, in the handbag, purse sub-categories. Not only do the sellers get massive traffic, they get people’s clueless purchase. They send them an email with a list of 1,000 distributors of random merchandise sources and leave the buyer at “AW!”

“What is this, I din’t purchase this” “I Purchase a Louis Vutton $2,495.00 purse for $10.00 with free shipping!” That was a friend of mine running through eBay’s addicted bargains. Of course, with my help paypal easily gave my friend her money back and not only did she get her money back, the seller has a big “user is no longer registered” in the feedback area of eBay feedback portfolio.

Coming from a nice vacation a few days back, this is the call I get 5 approximate seconds before sitting my precious and starting to work. This message for you means “prevention!”

By now you may be probably equipped with a B.S detector to easily spot the scammers on auction sites and on multiple online websites. Avoid the temptation if you are not sure of what you are purchasing and make sure to read every single detail described in every offering online. Be it on eBay or respected website, it should be schooling basics 101…but still people want the “too good to be true” discounts on Louis Vutton, Prada, Channel and the likes in the high priced ticket items on in-demand products.

This type of behavior will keep happening. Sites like eBay and other auction sites have already integrated softwares to pull red flags in their database for fast immediate re-verification of the product/auction in question. So if you are buying a wholesale distributor list, make sure not to fill your email inbox with 10 gigabytes of yellow pages fully exposed retail distributors and make sure to carefully review the fine prints if you fell in love with a handbag.

Catch you guys shortly,

John R.