Monday, 6 June 2011

Do not buy from Asian Ebay scammers

Maybe most of you have an ebay account and have bought once or twice from this largest auction site. Some of you may have a good experience and some of you may have a bad experience buying items from Ebay.

2 weeks ago I have won bidding an unlocked new iPhone 4 for just US320, it is really cheap compare to same item sold at offline store. A day later the seller send me an invoice. Ask me to pay as soon as possible because he has a lot of orders and the stock was running out, If I do not pay in two days he said that I need to wait for other incoming stocks. So I pay him on the spot. He do no use paypal but other merchant payment service. So I pay him using my debit mastercards, payment success and one week after that, I received the iPhone.

But oh my god, he sent me a fake iPhone, it looks real and do not look fake at all, the iPhone using both wm6.5 and android 2.2, as far as i know iPhone do not use android. So I sent an email to him ask for his explaination. Unfortunately until today he do not answer my email. I have report this case to Ebay but they can do nothing. The only thing they can do is ban the seller and their ip. But everyone knows that the scammer can easily open new seller account and start selling fake items back on Ebay. Not just cell phones, there were many fake items like basket ball jerseys, 'somebody's' autograph, copyright software and etc.

From what I know there was a technique they use to scam people on Ebay, they called it stealth or blackhat. Most fake items on Ebay was mailed from China dropshipper and it was not easy to identify the scammer identity because they use US postal address to verify their seller account.

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Makin money online is not easy job

I write this entry because some newbies think that makin money online is easy like counting 1 - 2 - 3. When you surf the internet, just type the keyword makin money online or online makin money and you can understand what I mean. Big boy bloggers suggested you to do this and that to become success makin money online but the truth is there is no easy way to make some bucks online.

Let say, you choose makin money online selling on Ebay, some Guru's said just open your seller account, open an account at dropshipping company like Artsnow and then list your customized mouse pads and mugs, then ka ching! Your Paypal loads full of money. Pretty damn liar. They just want you to buy their ebooks only. They do not tell you the truth. Did they tell you that if you are a new seller nobody want to buy your listed items? Did they tell you that if you are a new seller, Paypal will hold your money untill they got satisfied with 'performance' and it may take over three weeks for Paypal to release your money. So how do you want to pay dropshipper? If you get too much money on your Paypal they will limit your account. You cannot pay and receive money until you send them some proofs. But if you use debit cards that do not have paper statement so how do you want to proof them?

The conclusion is makin money online is not easy, this is the truth that you must agree if you're not an U.S or European residents. If you do not agree with me please don't tell me that you live in Asia because I know that if you want to make money with Ebay and you live in Asia ( except Japan ) there is no other ways except use some 'stealth' technique and that was scamming people too. Although it was not same as illegal black money scams but this 'stealth' tecnique was made to scams Ebay, Paypal and their buyers.

Do you know that by using this stealth thing you can sell many vero items and make a lot of money on Ebay? For example some Ebay Scammers lists pirate Windows 7 Ultimate for USD200 but they get this thing at USD30 in a **secret** dropshipping company. The Windows look real and you can update it online and pass the WGA! Please be careful with this kind of scammers that makin money on Ebay.