Ebay makes it so easy for people to take advantage of honest ebay members because they don`t have anything to lose. If ebay cared about its honest members they would require all members to post a credit card on file when a account is opened to show proof of age and to stop people from opening 20 ghost accounts. But ebay just doesn`t care because they still make money when you lose money plus they can say that they have over 4 million users when in fact over a million of this accounts are fake. This is why you must be very careful when dealing with ebay members with 0 feedback as 50% of the time its a ghost account or a scammer. All you need to open a account on ebay is a valid email address and for this reason there are tons of people with 20 or more fake accounts made just for the purpose to scam people out of thier money or items. Be sure to check to see how long a 0 feedback ebayer has been a member if they haven`t bought or sold anything in 6 months and now are seling or bidding on a item chances are that its a scammer with a ghost account. Even if a member is new its still a risk as you just never know. Ebay needs to change its rules but that will never happen so its up to you to protect yourself. If you found this information helpful please click below so others will know......Thank you
Guide created: 09/09/06 (updated 11/11/09)


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