My BS'ometer is going off

[ChuckinOhio]

Thieves

Not chainsaw related but.............

Had 1 dz single spring #2 Victor traps, 1 Dz Dbl spring #2 Victors, and 1 dz 220 Konabears stolen years ago. I had bought these traps myself with money from passing papers and bailing hay. I was 10 years old and a pretty skinny young lad. I was severely out of sorts because my friend and I had so much fun trapping and hunting, and to make it better in those days we were geting $7 apiece for muskrats and coons brought up around $20 to $25. I was a salty little cuss when my traps came up missing!!

A friend of mines dad heard about a bunch of traps for sale by a guy that he knew and supposedly knew well. Away we go in friends dads truck to look at traps and spend some hard earned money from helping on fencing jobs.

When we got there and I looked at the trap jaws my file marks were there. My friends dad knew my file marks because he had suggested that I put them there as a security measure in case of theft. The past rumors that this guy was no good turned out to be true, and he said that he found the traps in the river with no tags so they were his. He cut all of my brass tags off, as my friends dad had helped us stamp all of our tags and knew that we were legal eagles on our trap sets.

My friends dad was NOT a skinny lad, and he came unglued. I got all my traps back,trap thief was soundly snatched up by his shirt front and told he was lucky no firearms were present, trap thief got leaned on by Sheriff, and I learned a valuable lesson about property and the value of being an honest person.

Sometimes you get the bear..................................................

I hate thieves:chainsawguy:

Chuck


Chuck

 

[beelsr]

Ebay could prevent a lot of these fraud auctions from happening, but they don't. As long as they get their percentage of the sale, that's really all they care about. I'll back those words up with examples if anyone cares to ask.

You're kind of obligated to now....

 

[rreidnauer]

Alright. I was headed out the door so I finished a bit abrupt.

So first, it wouldn't take much for Ebay to come up with a script or algorithim that would look for unusual activity. Things like, one day auctions on high dollar items, users who never sold in the past, which now list multiple simutanious auctions, and inclusion of non-Ebay registered email addresses posted in the description. (especially free accounts like Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo)

Also, they could have a higher screening process for new members, which could include the requirement of a credit card number to verify name and address. (and if not a credit card, then mail a special verification password to a non-PO box address. Most folks would opt for the CC instead of waiting for the mail to arrive) A highjacker would litterally have to steal a legitimate user's username and password, as well as their CC. Something very unlikely to occur.

Many fraud cases involve the use of a Paypal account. Though separate, Ebay owns Paypal, and there too, additional verifications need to be in place to be able to identify the person receiving funds from a fraudulent action. The same tactic could be applied as in the paragraph above before allowing a user to accept funds.

So there's a few things that wouldn't take much effort. But Ebay (a) knows people don't want a hassle signing up, so they make it (too) easy, and (b) really doesn't care, since they get their piece of the pie with no skin off their nose.

 

[Goat]

which could include the requirement of a credit card number to verify name and address.

I do remember that being the policy for sometime long after I joined. I don't know if it is still current or not....

 

[beelsr]

So there's a few things that wouldn't take much effort. But Ebay (a) knows people don't want a hassle signing up, so they make it (too) easy, and (b) really doesn't care, since they get their piece of the pie with no skin off their nose.

Aww, I was looking for examples of frauds where ebay collected the money anyway.

I do IT. It would be dead simple for them to eliminate 90%+ of the fraud - especially since they own the whole channel.