ebay question...

[shiato storm]

I'm not a member of ebay. in fact I find the whole thing a little dodgy quite a lot of the time, but there is something that I want - as sold by one of those ebay retailer types - thats at a set price etc.
So, this whole signing up thing is a little dodgy to me considering you hand over your card details to start of with...usually - and correct me if I;m wrong - you hand over your details AFTER you know what you're purchasing...
anyway, my question is, once I've got what I want is there anyway to pull out of ebay i.e. cancel all references and details of mine? or are they held by ebay for the hackers to obtain later on?...

its one of the things thats been holding me back all this time - the fact you have to give your card details straight up.
oh and that I don't trust paypal one iota...

[Flibb]

The card details up front is the same system Blockbuster use to confirm an address, this has nothing to do with payment, paypal is a seperate entity (although is run by ebay). If you contacted ebay I am shure they could cancel your account, but TBH you can pick up some great stuff.

Example just got these for £5, old but working.




Lots of shops dumping last seasons stuff on there at the moment, just picked up some hiking gear cheap.

[utdmleach]

Just signed up for ebay and paypal today, I didn't give any card details to ebay, do I need to if I want to sell?

[Nick F]

I have used ebay for the last two years and never had any problems, take a look at their forums if you want to cancel your account.

[ajbrun]

I think the data protection act states that any company (or individual) must remove data if:

* It's out of date
* Useless
* It's been requested to be deleted by the customer

Therefore, you should be able to ring them up and ask them to remove you.

[XA04]

i've only bought one thing from ebay before, a 6megapixel camera from germany for... £67 inc shipping (yes new)

[shiato storm]

cool...right. under DP act I think I'm covered...here I go a-registering

[ajbrun]

That's assuming what I've said is correct (i think it is) unless you have another source.

[shiato storm]

done

cue scam emails...!

[Swafe]

You get scam emails whether your a member or not these days

As for ebay, you dont need to supply any credit card details to register (Or at least I didnt) Unless I wanted to sell, as long as your over 18, and have an ISP email, e.g blahblah@freeserve.com, then theyll verify it, as if you rip a load of people off they can find out who you really are from your ISP, wheras someone with hotmail needs a card to verify, as they could be anyone.

Ebay is relativly safe when you know what your doing, if you do bid on anything READ the description with a fine tooth comb, trust me, many new ebayers are completely ripped off by these scams, my mate bid on a phone, or so he thought (Which incidently are the main source of cons) with the specs, look, this is in great condition, and all that malarkey, then at the bottom in size 1 font it said please be aware your buying a link to where you can buy it. It sold for about 80 quid (Luckily he withdrew his bid in time) so some poor ebayer who just joined spent 80 quid on a link and probably didnt realise till it came thru....deception it the name of the game, beware!

[shiato storm]

there's the famous xbox box...
it certainly pays to read the print. I guess any computer stuff I want I can get here on hexus at the for sale section more trust worthy too...

[shiato storm]

So now I've got paypal too...so just wondering, when I pay someone how do I do it?....

edit: nevermind, being blind... @myself

[bsodmike]

eBay rocks, as long as you know what you are doing and keep receipts when you sell stuff (at least 6 months!)

[utdmleach]

Avoid those scammers like the plague:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws1/eBayISA...me=STRK:ME:UFS

''this guy is bogus tried to charge 30 dollars for one pound item....qwerty''







Only joking bsodmike

[shiato storm]

just made my first ebay buy
now its just a waiting game... tick tock...

[utdmleach]

Did you pay by paypal without having the paypal verification code from ur bank statment?