And it only took him since last october to get his 800+ positive rating!

And only cost him £8?

EBay sucks!

Xaxaxe wrote:
Not really:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/fee ... ation.html

With a key passage being:

Hrm.  They must have updated that since I last checked. It was quite a while ago, so it's definitely likely.



At the time, I believe it only used to refer to mentioning feedback in the auction title or auction description.

beasterbrook wrote:I suspect taht 1 cents don't change hands.

I doubt anything changes hands ... money or items. My guess is it's more of a network of scammers who "understand" that the whole thing is wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say-no-more.

Hi,

yeah, he's done it on several occasions.

Whenever his feedback need a boost, basically.

Cheers,
Malc

I have gone ahead and reported a couple of these "sales" to Ebay as feedback abuse.

Does anyone know how to just send an Email to someone at Ebay without using the "report this auction" tag...that will only really accept listing numbers?

It is high time that ordinary, honest Ebay customers began asking Ebay what they plan to do about Dave Whitfield.

1)  Frequently uses deceptive listings, including overstating the quality of the items he sells.

2)  Claims that critical components that are missing from an item are the fault of the customer for not asking...as if he'd answer, and as if completeness of a product were not the seller's duty to report.

3)  Charging excessive postage...and refusing to quote postage in advance specifically for this purpose.

4)  Offering a fraudulent refund policy that does not include his excessive shipping charges.

5)  Opening false NPB claims in order to have negative feedback removed.

6)  Offering fraudulent auctions for the purpose of boosting his feedback.

7)  Posting abusive and fraudulent negative feedback in retaliation for any negative feedback he may receive.

 Re-listing items he has supposedly sold and shipped.

9)  Falsely claiming that he has not received a shipment and then offering the items for sale, even though he supposedly never received them.

Surely, Dave has left a suitably wide trail of nasty emails, sordid deals, fraudulent auctions and the like for Ebay to be highly self-interested in having him gone.

I just spent 10 minutes or so trying to loop through Ebay's reporting system to see if I could send an email to a real person.

I think it's time all of us started clearly voicing to Ebay the large number of problems with this seller.

Mark

benjoshua wrote:Do you think Coug just learned this trick or have we just not noticed it?

Oh, no, he's done it before ... this is at least the third go-around where he's been spotted by an Acaeum member. But I'll admit to never even having heard of this scheme before he was first spotted doing it a couple of years ago. Then, once I saw it in action, I just had to shake my head ... yet another Cougie scheme that takes advantage of eBay's loopholes.

FormCritic wrote:Then it might be good idea to write down who gives Dave feedback for those auctions.

It would identify the other scammers, right?

Not a really good use of anyone's time, though, especially in the context of what we talk about on this site. The Penny Auction Idiots are not people who are involved in any form of D&D collecting ... they are more of a network of like-minded scammers that Diamond Dave can go to for a feedback boost. You and I (and every other normal person here) will never have to deal with these people.

That's not to say that reporting them can't be fun. But it can be frustrating to see no real action taken on eBay's part. And I suspect that these sorts of "feedback farms" are full of resourceful people who find it easy to open new accounts if they find their original account locked.

Not to get too far off-topic, but DM Dave has honestly had one good use: he is living proof that eBay's rules and regulations are riddled with loopholes. I'm now convinced (for all the good that does) that the entire rulebook needs to be re-written top-to-bottom.

For starters, why doesn't everyone here revisit those fake listings and report them as

1) Violations of policy
2) Feedback related
3) Offer to purchase feedback.

By the way, the second auction, called "secret ebook" is interesting, in its own way.  

Xaxaxe wrote:

That's not to say that reporting them can't be fun. But it can be frustrating to see no real action taken on eBay's part. And I suspect that these sorts of "feedback farms" are full of resourceful people who find it easy to open new accounts if they find their original account locked.

Dave Whitfield would consider it a disastrous loss.  His whole online personna is based upon his powerseller status and how he dominates the games sales market.

It would also be disastrous for Dave because once he is banned, it would be possible for Acaeum members to detect his new incarnations and report them one by one.

It would affect his PayPal status and his ability to withdraw funds.

Mostly, it would be a near-brainbusting blow to his ego.