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<p>[QUOTE="MorganFred, post: 37822, member: 1779"]Hi Sarawakian - cute kitty for an avatar (I'm a cat person).</p><p><br /></p><p>I think if she were to return to eBay under a different username and presuming she maintained the same high volume with the same lack of ethics and similar "Looks all good to me." descriptions accompanied by a fuzzy photo, she would be hard-pressed to disguise that she is one and the same as pjd1966 and would be quickly identified. Hopefully, she would be suspended from that user ID as well. I understand that once a person is suspended from trading, it is next to impossible to return without a major change of identity including personal name, credit cards, phone numbers, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>In earlier days of eBay (I've been an eBay member since 1999), eBay gave a lot more personal attention to problem sellers and buyers and more readily suspended someone from membership. With the size and volume of eBay and its transactions these days, the sheer numbers must make it overwhelming for eBay personnel to keep tabs on these problem people. With what I hope is the eventual removal of pjd1966 from eBay, a LOT of potential eBayers will be able to bid in more safety, but there are still a lot of bad sellers still out there. If newbies to eBay would only take the trouble to learn about the system before they naively started bidding, then there would be far fewer problems and sellers like Pamela would have no market. A major part of the problem is that there are tens of thousands of new members joining eBay every day and it's impossible to take each one under someone's wing to show them the ropes. It would be nice if someone could mentor each one as soon as s/he joins, but this is also impossible, so every day, there's gonna be a new batch of innocents, waiting to be suckered without knowing it.But, this isn't a perfect world, nature abhors a vacuum, so there will always be more pjd1966's to take her place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MorganFred, post: 37822, member: 1779"]Hi Sarawakian - cute kitty for an avatar (I'm a cat person). I think if she were to return to eBay under a different username and presuming she maintained the same high volume with the same lack of ethics and similar "Looks all good to me." descriptions accompanied by a fuzzy photo, she would be hard-pressed to disguise that she is one and the same as pjd1966 and would be quickly identified. Hopefully, she would be suspended from that user ID as well. I understand that once a person is suspended from trading, it is next to impossible to return without a major change of identity including personal name, credit cards, phone numbers, etc. In earlier days of eBay (I've been an eBay member since 1999), eBay gave a lot more personal attention to problem sellers and buyers and more readily suspended someone from membership. With the size and volume of eBay and its transactions these days, the sheer numbers must make it overwhelming for eBay personnel to keep tabs on these problem people. With what I hope is the eventual removal of pjd1966 from eBay, a LOT of potential eBayers will be able to bid in more safety, but there are still a lot of bad sellers still out there. If newbies to eBay would only take the trouble to learn about the system before they naively started bidding, then there would be far fewer problems and sellers like Pamela would have no market. A major part of the problem is that there are tens of thousands of new members joining eBay every day and it's impossible to take each one under someone's wing to show them the ropes. It would be nice if someone could mentor each one as soon as s/he joins, but this is also impossible, so every day, there's gonna be a new batch of innocents, waiting to be suckered without knowing it.But, this isn't a perfect world, nature abhors a vacuum, so there will always be more pjd1966's to take her place.[/QUOTE]
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