Snaked

[bad_roo]

If you see skis being advertised by a vendor called oakley.e-bay don't bid.

I won an auction for a pair of Dynastar Pro Riders and requested a total amount for the skis, bindings and postage. He sent this on a Sunday to my work email address. Monday was a national holiday here in the UK so I get in to work on Tuesday, see the invoice and Paypal him the money.

Then the bastard writes back saying that he's relisted and sold the skis for twice what I bid for them.

Now I've got to try to get my money back off him. Grrrr.

[Ski Beaver]

I'd be trying to get the skis off him, from memory you got a killer deal.

He can't possibly have shipped them to the new person by now.

[bad_roo]

Good news is that he's refunded my money back but it still doesn't look like I';ll be getting the skis out of the fugger.

[teledave]

Time for complaints to ebay and PayPal, ebay should at least cancel his oakley username, and Paypal should cancel his account as well since their major usage comes directly from ebay. The Paypal account will be a lot harder to get reactivated than the ebay account. Raise total hell with him and demand the skis you bid on not the refund, if oakley didn't want to sell that cheap he needs to use a reserve price.

Or call Woodsy, though I'm not sure he works in the UK.

[teledave]

Originally posted by bad_roo
If you see skis being advertised by a vendor called oakley.e-bay don't bid.

Or just make up a bunch of alias usernames and immediately bid the hell out of all his auctions, so that he can't sell anything. Then in the winning bidder e-mail, "Fuck You, that'll teach you to mess with bad_roo!"

[Superstar Punani]

Time for the maggot e-bay hit squad to get to work....paging Skidawg- shall we?

[Superstar Punani]

User profile
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws1/eBayISA...d=oakley.e-bay

User items for sale
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ort=3&since=-1

FYI- Using the "Buy It Now" option really fucks them in the ass. The auction closes, e-bay sends them a bill, then they have to file a non-paying bidder form. Lots of hassles for them.

[bad_roo]

I posted a link to those Pocket Rockets in Ski Swap last week. It looks like he's done exactly the same thing to the guy who won them.

[Superstar Punani]

A friend of a friend says he will need an untraceable IP address, such as a poached one from a wireless hotspot, then hit "buy it now" for all of fucking fuck's auctions.

[Potsy]

Could you go to internet cafe and do that and still have annonymity?

[Telenater]

Originally posted by Potsy
Could you go to internet cafe and do that and still have annonymity?

No, a secure site will be recording the MAC address of your network card. They'll be able to tell when that network card hits the site again.

[joshbu]

Originally posted by Telenater
No, a secure site will be recording the MAC address of your network card. They'll be able to tell when that network card hits the site again.

I think potsy was thinking one of the internet cafes that provide their own computers, unless they're installing MAC addresses in people now...

[phUnk]

Originally posted by Telenater
No, a secure site will be recording the MAC address of your network card. They'll be able to tell when that network card hits the site again.

Do you mean a wireless Net Cafe will record the MAC address of clients?

How is that going to get anybody e-busted? Do you really think they have a list of "bad guy MAC-addresses?" How would someone get on that bad-guy list? Is Ebay going to call the monkey at the Net Cafe's front desk and ask them to put the MAC address from the 11:48am x.x.x.106 user on their bad-guy list?

(Hint: No.)

[Potsy]

uhhh, a little out of my element here. I thought internet cafes were places where you could just use a computer for a set time and price - like a Starbucks or an airport? I sure don't know what I'm talking about, I thought the internet was what we all did at work.

[Telenater]

Originally posted by phUnk
Do you mean a wireless Net Cafe will record the MAC address of clients?

How is that going to get anybody e-busted? Do you really think they have a list of "bad guy MAC-addresses?" How would someone get on that bad-guy list? Is Ebay going to call the monkey at the Net Cafe's front desk and ask them to put the MAC address from the 11:48am x.x.x.106 user on their bad-guy list?

(Hint: No.)

No, but the point was that the assumption that wireless would let you be annonymous is false. For instance if you were to use your own wireless card at a cafe and create a hassle for someone, they pick up your MAC address and ban it from further contact. I suspect that you'd have to create a real problem to make them take that type of step, but it can be done.

[phUnk]

Originally posted by Telenater
No, but the point was that the assumption that wireless would let you be annonymous is false. For instance if you were to use your own wireless card at a cafe and create a hassle for someone, they pick up your MAC address and ban it from further contact. I suspect that you'd have to create a real problem to make them take that type of step, but it can be done.

You should have taken my hint. Ebay is never going to bother contacting the internet cafe b/c there are 100 ways around that 1 cafe banning that 1 MAC.

[fez]

Originally posted by phUnk
You should have taken my hint. Ebay is never going to bother contacting the internet cafe b/c there are 100 ways around that 1 cafe banning that 1 MAC.

now this is cool

well, if you are a geek anyway.

just looked at it more, looks like they charge $14.95 for the program. the mac address is stored in the registry on most windows flavors. google spoof wireless card mac address for more info on how.

[365wp]

For an obfuscated network route, try Tor.