In my opinion, ebay is a great thing but the system is complex and in my
opinion things get problematic too often.
I don't buy there unless I must because too often some aspect or
another becomes messily time consuming for me. I have been ripped off
once and a few years ago, someone hacked and started using my account.
In my last purchase, because of ebay's complex relationships with their
vendors and different purchasing paths, their shopping cart software
glitched in the process of my making an instant purchase from one vendor
and my credit card was charged via Pay Pal for a second vendor's item
that I only looked at ... who didn't even accept credit cards.
Ebay and paypal straightened up the problem and apologized ... said
their engineers were looking at the problem ... but it consumed a lot of
my time and attention to get thru that restitution process that involved
ebay, their quasi, independent PayPal and two vendors.
I prefer to not subject myself to such complexity but sometime ebay is
the only place I can get an item so then I take the risk but knowing
that the price will be good but the overhead can turn out to be costly.
db
Richard P. wrote:
If you Google the terms:
ebay password change notification
it will come up with a scam that sounds similar. You might want to
verify directly with EBay that they are in fact the ones requesting
your password change. You could maybe find out the reason behind the
frequent change requests.
Richard P.
gerald wrote:
I'm pretty certain that all the mucking about is being done by ebay.
after notify, i cannot get into my account with my password.
my inquires to ebay have indicated they changed the password.
maybe happens with fairly active accounts. i buy (only buy) at least
200 and maybe bid seriously(am frequently the underbidder)on 4-500
items a year.
At 11:40 AM 1/28/2008, you wrote:
You are almost certainly a recipient of phishing,
notify eBay, and change your password.
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