Impossible Ebay
eBay is busted, and its not because some code went bad or because a server somewhere failed. Its because eBay is overrun with people trying to scam other people.
Even the unstoppable Bruce Schneier isn’t immune. He almost got scammed twice while trying to sell his laptop on eBay.
Consumerist has a nice write up about the problem:
The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has learned the awful truth behind today’s eBay—something many readers here already know—which is that it’s become virtually impossible to sell any sort of medium-to-high end electronics there anymore.
Pretty lame. But I never really trusted spending a lot of money on anything via eBay. Its just too bad that everything on the internet sort of turns into this. Too bad or crazy awesome. I can’t decide.
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