bunglator
October 13th, 2004, 07:47 AM
have a funny story on something each and everyone of you can do when your bored, and not only is it fun but it stops them scummy ebay scam artists too.
We all know about the people on ebay who sell those stupid links to matrix sites, the way they write pages and pages of information on a new sexy laptop and you think yes yes YES! cos the price is so low, however you scroll right down to the bottom to find the words "THIS ACTION IS FOR A LINK TO A VERY GOOD AND LEGITIMATE WEB SITE WHERE YOU CAN GET THIS LAPTOP FOR ON £20" or something similar.
The other day me and my mate were at work and we were bored, we noticed that on a lot of these sellers item people were actually bidding, and not just a couple of quid, oh no, i am talking hundreds. We sat for a while and dreampt of a new life as a millionaire selling these links ourselves, but then a conscience appeared and we realised how wrong it was, damn that conscience.
We got thinking, for a way to screw these scammers back, then we thought about the ebay fees and how they are Proportional to the value of the item on the winning bid. to make it easier to understand go here http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html
We understood that these items are agaist ebay policy and that reporting the item to ebay will have it removed, however there a much more interesting way to stop the items from screwing people over.
What you will need:
1. an ebay account
2. a Mate with an ebay account (or multiple mates)
3. that same mate whos ebay account doesnt have an address or phone number linked to it incase these people get annoyed and come and kill you
4. some music (just for the atmosphere)
5. maybe something to drink, a latte or perhaps a nice blended fruit drink
6. a sense of humour.
These may not seem as funny when reading it but try this yourself with a mate. Find one of these people that are selling links to matrix sites, keep a record of the item number or the seller id. Then all of you log into you ebay accounts and go crazy. Bid like you are some kind of crazy rich person. You will suprised what a great feeling you get when u have just bid 1 million quid for a web link. and its great fun just trying to beat ur mates on these bid in the closing minutes with your millions of pounds.
Of course thats not the only funny bit, the great thing is that the seller cant ever leave u bad feedback cos ebay would have to remove it as you were assisting them in stopping a illegal item sell. But wait thats not the funniest part....remeber the link to ebay fees i pasted above? well let me just show u a quick calculation
me and my mate bid like crazy, well actually we just wacked in a huge value cos it was quicker and we were testing it out. when the item finished this is the fee's the seller will have on there account, this is just for one item that they sold illegally on ebay:
so for the first £30 it works out at £1.75
the next £600 is £19.50
and then the 1.75% of the final price, this is the best bit, £175,000
imagine the persons face when there dodgy item sells for £10,000,000 and they realise they have a ebay fee of over £175,000 for the one item.(of course i believe they can get the item cancelled and not have to pay the fee but if they forgot it would be fantastic
For added effect list a sellers items and bid millions on all of his dodgy link sells, i believe ebay will let a single account (well this is what ours allowed) bid about £40,000,000 over around 4 items but u may manage more i am not sure.
so there you have it, one night at work, and we find a new past time. I hope you all have fun doing this cos its well funny, esspecially some of the funny emails you get back from the sellers. People should post thier item sells and thier emails from sellers, i bet some of them will be well funny.
Hope it was as interesting for u as it was for us.
bye
We all know about the people on ebay who sell those stupid links to matrix sites, the way they write pages and pages of information on a new sexy laptop and you think yes yes YES! cos the price is so low, however you scroll right down to the bottom to find the words "THIS ACTION IS FOR A LINK TO A VERY GOOD AND LEGITIMATE WEB SITE WHERE YOU CAN GET THIS LAPTOP FOR ON £20" or something similar.
The other day me and my mate were at work and we were bored, we noticed that on a lot of these sellers item people were actually bidding, and not just a couple of quid, oh no, i am talking hundreds. We sat for a while and dreampt of a new life as a millionaire selling these links ourselves, but then a conscience appeared and we realised how wrong it was, damn that conscience.
We got thinking, for a way to screw these scammers back, then we thought about the ebay fees and how they are Proportional to the value of the item on the winning bid. to make it easier to understand go here http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html
We understood that these items are agaist ebay policy and that reporting the item to ebay will have it removed, however there a much more interesting way to stop the items from screwing people over.
What you will need:
1. an ebay account
2. a Mate with an ebay account (or multiple mates)
3. that same mate whos ebay account doesnt have an address or phone number linked to it incase these people get annoyed and come and kill you
4. some music (just for the atmosphere)
5. maybe something to drink, a latte or perhaps a nice blended fruit drink
6. a sense of humour.
These may not seem as funny when reading it but try this yourself with a mate. Find one of these people that are selling links to matrix sites, keep a record of the item number or the seller id. Then all of you log into you ebay accounts and go crazy. Bid like you are some kind of crazy rich person. You will suprised what a great feeling you get when u have just bid 1 million quid for a web link. and its great fun just trying to beat ur mates on these bid in the closing minutes with your millions of pounds.
Of course thats not the only funny bit, the great thing is that the seller cant ever leave u bad feedback cos ebay would have to remove it as you were assisting them in stopping a illegal item sell. But wait thats not the funniest part....remeber the link to ebay fees i pasted above? well let me just show u a quick calculation
me and my mate bid like crazy, well actually we just wacked in a huge value cos it was quicker and we were testing it out. when the item finished this is the fee's the seller will have on there account, this is just for one item that they sold illegally on ebay:
so for the first £30 it works out at £1.75
the next £600 is £19.50
and then the 1.75% of the final price, this is the best bit, £175,000
imagine the persons face when there dodgy item sells for £10,000,000 and they realise they have a ebay fee of over £175,000 for the one item.(of course i believe they can get the item cancelled and not have to pay the fee but if they forgot it would be fantastic
For added effect list a sellers items and bid millions on all of his dodgy link sells, i believe ebay will let a single account (well this is what ours allowed) bid about £40,000,000 over around 4 items but u may manage more i am not sure.
so there you have it, one night at work, and we find a new past time. I hope you all have fun doing this cos its well funny, esspecially some of the funny emails you get back from the sellers. People should post thier item sells and thier emails from sellers, i bet some of them will be well funny.
Hope it was as interesting for u as it was for us.
bye