posted on September 21, 2001 01:00:20 PM new
I just got a Billpoint notice that a payment for one of my auctions had been sent to charity, even though the auction was NOT an AFA auction -- and in fact was listed before eBay launched AFA.
Sure enough, I checked my Billpoint account, and, while the payment shows up on the summary page as normal, on the deposits page, it shows that my checking account is being docked the 35 cent fee, and the payment amount has been donated to charity.
It is bad enough that eBay decided to run AFA on the backs of its sellers, while taking all the credit. But to openly steal payments from sellers on non-AFA auctions, that takes the cake. eBay, have you no shame?
SELLERS: Check your Billpoint payments carefully. You may be the next victim of eBay's latest scam.
posted on September 21, 2001 01:07:19 PM new
Have you asked them about this? If you did not authorize it, it is stealing and they better return the money.
posted on September 22, 2001 05:54:01 PM new
I just don't agree with all this negativity about AfA - I think that eBay is doing the best they can.
That being said, maybe people can understand the negative feelings some Middle Eastern people develop about Americans - we are the big rich greedy eBay to them, and sometimes when we just want to help, we bungle it.
After we get bin Laden and his gang, our nation will have to address this, or we'll still be having trouble by creating recruits for his (or, rather, his successor's) cause.
posted on September 23, 2001 08:05:29 AM new
It is stealing. Motivation or the lack thereof might make for a reduced penalty, but taking what does not belong to you is still stealing.
posted on September 23, 2001 10:12:03 AM newWebster's: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
Intent is part of the definition.
To ignore intent and accuse somebody of stealing is a choice to be inflammatory
(if there is intent) or a mistake (if someone doesn't know what the word means).
