SAN JOSE, Calif.--eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman told shareholders at the company's annual meeting here Wednesday that new software was helping the popular auction site make "major strides" in ...

Almost all online selling platforms are prone to scams that's why people should not let their guard down at times. eBay, for instance, is a notorious place where scams happen. For the part of the ...

Longtime friend and colleague Stephen Cobb sends the following warning about an auction-related scam (“I” refers to Stephen throughout and names have been changed to avoid lawsuits): In early April, I ...

Acknowledging that caveat emptor goes only so far as a guideline for online sales, eBay has been putting new mechanisms in place to help fight fraud. We want to know what your experiences have been as ...

Hijacked 'phishing' accounts used to carry out new scam... eBay is warning customers to be wary of fraudsters using hijacked sellers' accounts to try to con them out of money by offering to sell goods ...

he white poodle should have been a tip-off. Antiques dealer Thomas Perry had taken a picture of a giant antique teakwood ship's wheel outside his gallery in Chester, Conn., and offered it for sale on ...

More than half a dozen eBay users last week alerted the online auction company to an identity theft and a series of fraudulent auctions allegedly stemming from Ukraine. However, the victims of the ...

EBay Inc. has unveiled expanded protections for those buyers and sellers in its marketplace who complete transactions using the company’s PayPal online payment service. The new protections, which will ...

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EBay, the online marketplace, has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused its PayPal payment service of mishandling customer complaints about fraud. All PayPal users ...

Tuesday, I listed my old iPhone 3G for sale. The auction was ended via a "buy it now", 3 minutes after I listed it. Wednesday, all day I didn't receive any payment or communication from the buyer.

I don't even see how any of this truly matters. An e-mail address is not a legal address or otherwise a valid link to a personal identity. In the previous thread someone asked the ridiculous question ...