Airnxt is at it again!

February 23, 2007 3:28 PM

Is ebay still not safe from airnxt? It is obviously not ebay fraud seller free!

RE: the infamous airnxt post (which is now closed)

an update

http://ask.metafilter.com/27155/is-an-ebay-fraud-seller-free

it has been a while since i checked back on the above post,
but it looks like airnxt is still up to his old tricks, selling fake chanel handbags.

oh, and his feedback is not private anymore.

Two weeks for delivery! Received a fake! Sick to my stomach! Out $510!!



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290069288442

he must be stopped!

posted by billoni to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Well, I'm glad at least someone isn't bothered about wasting their once-every-two-weeks askme post.
posted by Dave Faris at 3:39 PM on February 23, 2007

shouldn't this be in metatalk?
posted by elisabeth r at 3:48 PM on February 23, 2007

eBay doesn't give a shit about the fact that fraudsters are ripping people off left & right.

From what I've read, they're too worried about upsetting the Chinese as they try to expand eBay into China.

eBay is a local company, and the stories of eBay fraud are endless.
posted by drstein at 4:00 PM on February 23, 2007

choose sellers with lots of postive feedback

and avoid buying the sorts of things that are faked all the time

IE HANDBAGS
posted by Salvatorparadise at 4:14 PM on February 23, 2007

eBay will never be fraud free. To do it they'd have to lock it down so tight that using it would be onerous. That said there's some tips that you can use to reduce your chances of being shafted.

1) If it's an item that can be faked, and if it's coming from China then it's fake. This is amazingly obvious in the musical instrument section.
2) Thousands of positive feedback doesn't mean anything without taking the context into consideration. Were all the positives from sellers and the account is now suddenly making sales? Let somebody else test their integrity.
3) Does the account appear to have been ignored for a long time and suddenly brought to life? It could be a hacked account, it could be legit too. Weigh the chance of fraud v.s. your ability to live without the item and cash.
4) Negative feedback in general is bad.
5) I usually try to correlate their username with their internet history. It's not always possible, some names are too common.
posted by substrate at 4:25 PM on February 23, 2007

$515.
posted by mendel at 4:28 PM on February 23, 2007

And a corollary to 1) above: If the price seems way too good to be true, it probably is, and that probability goes up with the unlikeliness of the deal.
posted by Smilla's Sense of Snark at 5:01 PM on February 23, 2007