Marsha Collier, author of eBay for Blank, looks like a very nice woman on the phone, but you get the feeling that they do not suffer fools lightly on the shoulder.”When a man buys a TV in the back of a truck, and when he returns home and sees that the TV does not work, guilt is it?” Collier said the question on the possibility of fraud, the largest in the world, the auction house. “In the real world, we would say that it was the fault of the buyer not to attract attention to the signs.
His message is simple: a small number of sellers on Internet sites auctions are in it for the cheaters, but they are as striking as the type of selling televisions from a Chevy.
Therefore, she says, there is no need for lawmakers to Washington to engage in online auctions - a step, began to read probably Tuesday at the Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA) Speaker of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asked the auction house retail Presidents of the auction, the rate of fraud in their businesses.
Tauzin writing, which was also Rep. Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico), asks, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon and support “in determining the causes of the online auction of fraud as well as solutions of consumer protection and strengthen confidence E - Commerce. ”
EBay fraud, according to a recent survey by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, there are a lot of taste. The biggest fraud Non-Delivery - after a buyer pays the seller an article disappears, and the element does not come. Another problem is, “Schilling”, ie if a seller (or someone in Cahoots with the seller) offers on its own position to their price.
The IFCC reported that fraud auctions as the latter account for about 64 per cent of all Internet makes fraud, but a spokesman for eBay keep a very small portion of their auctions is protect fraudsters.