WARNUNG! Phishing im Namen von eBay - Mitteilung eines "eBay-Mitglieds"

EBay takes a bigger slice from sellers
Internet auction site eBay risked angering many of its customers today when it announced a 40% rise in the cost of selling individual items.
Although it is also cutting the cost of listing items for sale on its website by about one-third, at the same time it is increasing the fee charged to the vendor for each item sold from about 5.25% to about 7.5%.

Controversially, the site also said it would force more sellers to accept payment using its PayPal service.

Is eBay turning its back on small sellers?
News of higher charges for selling items on eBay has left users asking if the auction website is shunning it's flea-market roots to become the preserve of big business.Changes to eBay charges were announced to a small group of the most active American eBay sellers yesterday, but they will impact upon more than a million users in the UK.

Overall, eBay is increasing the fee charged to the vendor for each item sold from about 5.25% to about 7.5%.

The higher charges when a sale is made are offset in part by a lower charge to list items. In the UK, the listing fee for an item costing £30 will fall by 5p, from 15p to 10p.

Massive eBay fraud exposed
A LONDON couple conned eBay customers around the world out of £300,000. Nicolae Cretanu, 30, and his wife Adriana, 23, swindled thousands of victims into paying for everything from non-existent cars to concert tickets. They bought a flat and a BMW with the proceeds of Britain's biggest such fraud, which lasted two years. The couple worked for crime bosses in Romania who offered fictitious goods on the internet auction site.

Unsuspecting shoppers bid for the items but were told they had been outbid. The pair would then contact all the bidders by email saying that they had an identical item and offered it for sale. If the victims agreed they would be told to wire their payments to Britain.

Buyers on eBay usually have to pay before being sent their goods. In this case, none of the victims got what they had bid for.

Instead the Cretanus collected the cash using 12 aliases and got an accomplice - Romanian illegal immigrant George Titar, 23 - to pick up the cash from Western Union counters in east London.

The trio took a cut of the profits and sent the rest of the cash to their bosses in Romania. Nicolae Cretanu came to London from Romania on a business visa as a painter and decorator in 2003. The racket was smashed after suspicious Western Union staff contacted police.

This afternoon at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court, Nicolae Cretanu was jailed for three-and-a-half years. Adriana Cretanu and George Titar were sentenced to two-and-a-half years.

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Naja, die wissen vielleicht das sich bei ebay 90% Ganoven, 8% Abzocker und 2% Ignoranten angemeldet haben oder mitspielen. Ebay is ein B2B Portal das unter Banken udn Behoerdenaufsicht gehoert. Aus schluss..