How Do People Even Get Away With These Things?

[DWait]

Check out this eBay listing. An AMD Ryzen 7 2700X for $29.99. Clearly not real, despite his positive feedback. Almost 30 people bought this. What does the seller expect besides being forced to give the money back? How do these scammers do it? Is there something they do to actually keep all this money?

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-AMD-RYZEN-7-2700X-8-Core-3-7-GHz-Socket-AM4-105W-YD270XBGAFBOX-Processor/283219459588?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D447a5342ebb542448dceac03cf36f9b3%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D9%26sd%3D283219459588%26itm%3D283219459588&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A723aa9e8-d41c-11e8-9f4c-74dbd1802660%7Cparentrq%3A8fa01eac1660aa491eae9142fff88de4%7Ciid%3A1

[Cereal5]

Why not order one and find out  I'll take one as well if you're buying

[Canada EH]

13 minutes ago, DWait said:

An AMD Ryzen 7 2700X for $29.99. Clearly not real, despite his positive feedback. Almost 30 people bought this. What does the seller expect besides being forced to give the money back? How do these scammers do it? Is there something they do to actually keep all this money?

Because $30 is $1,000,000 to a 3rd worlder, so having 5% not ask for a refund, thats the name of the game.

Its like the gift card scam, 25% never use it.

Its like the Mail In Rebate scam, 20% never do it.

Its like the Nigerian Princess, 2% fall for it.

 

 

What about ebay scammer putting a price on an item that is 10,000% percent higher, why doesnt ebay crack down on that, or an ebay scammer putting a s/h price 100,000% higher then it should be. Or an ebay scammer stating the item is shipped, on a long weekend when post offices are closed.

[DWait]

5 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Because $30 is $1,000,000 to a 3rd worlder, so having 5% not ask for a refund, thats the name of the game.

Its like the gift card scam, 25% never use it.

Its like the Mail In Rebate scam, 20% never do it.

Its like the Nigerian Princess, 2% fall for it.

 

 

What about ebay scammer putting a price on an item that is 10,000% percent higher, why doesnt ebay crack down on that, or an ebay scammer putting a s/h price 100,000% higher then it should be. Or an ebay scammer stating the item is shipped, on a long weekend when post offices are closed.

Yeah but I'd expect that from a freshly made account more so than one that supposedly has been on since 2000, according to his profile. He probably did this before but didn't get banned? Crazy to think about.

[Canada EH]

1 minute ago, DWait said:

since 2000

Just means he has hundreds or thousands of ebay accounts. I have seen it before on ebay, with atleast 3 or 4 accounts, same city, same products. They can game the system very well, buying $0.01 from accounts and giving A+ reviews.

[DWait]

Just now, Canada EH said:

Just means he has hundreds or thousands of ebay accounts.

Guess you're right; some people just suck. Feel bad for those people who bought it.

[Canada EH]

2 minutes ago, DWait said:

Feel bad for those people who bought it.

Why

 

Don't feel bad, they have to learn. Besides they can get their money back very easily, keyword can.

I bet most of those "buyers" are stoned and or drunk. Blurry vision perhaps from the THC content.

[DWait]

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Why

 

Don't feel bad, they have to learn. Besides they can get their money back, keyword can.

I bet most of those "buyers" are stoned and or drunk.

Hopefully they do learn. Luckily, not much of a bad loss which is exactly what the seller wants. But, like you said, they can literally get their money back very easily. Pretty dumb of this seller.

[Canada EH]

6 minutes ago, DWait said:

Hopefully they do learn. Luckily, not much of a bad loss which is exactly what the seller wants. But, like you said, they can literally get their money back very easily. Pretty dumb of this seller.

Well common sense is not common, lots of stupid people out there, just need 1% to fall for it and send out 1,000,000,000,000,000 "feelers" and yes thats what the seller wants. Its not dumb on the scammers point of view, if one buyer forgets he bought it in his drunken blackout then its a win for the scammer. All too common for ebay sellers to mis represent the items they are selling, and I would say its a good percentage of ebay sellers knowingly leave out info, or include deceiving info. Everyone from small time beer money ebay sellers with 3 digits of products for sale at any given time to seasoned ebay veterans do it with 5 digits of products.

[RuZoG]

eBay, Not the seller has pulled the listing. I was looking at the 100% feedback for the seller and they were all from the buying perspective. It looked like a credible seller on the surface based on the feedback percentage.  In this instance purchasing likely from another one of their accounts.