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Back in prehistoric times, bosses worried that workers were using the office Internet connection to look at pornography. After that it was Amazon.com. Now it's eBay and the other auction sites.

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Walk through any office around 8:30 a.m. and everyone's logged on and ready for another day. Only thing is, instead of reading the CEO's latest rantings, they're buying antique waffle irons on eBay and selling some left-over parts from that old Studebaker out in the back yard.

The whole thing works more or less on the honor system, which is pretty much how speed limits work. Our suspicion has been that if you held up a radar gun, you'd find a lot of people speeding -- and a lot of others (or maybe the same ones) not coming through with the merch.

Here are a few of the more recent complaints we've received:

angella of anaheim, CA June 2, 2009

Ebay is allowing the sale of drug and drug paraphernalia pieces right now #270382339969 after reporting the issue of prohibited item. Ebay claim the item is for hookah: the reason being the user has 1260 feedback. But the tube is for GLASS BONG. this is the title and the listing is in the category of medical supply. Downstem Down Stem Tube 3" Ground Glass 18.8mm/14.4mm.

The Seller accept paypal only meaning both Ebay and Paypal is allowing the sales of drug related like water pipe and bong in their site. Would somebody report this to the official DEA so they can randomly check on the keyword because the ebay security and paypal security is not stopping and reinforcing their own policy. Ebay took me for a fool and when I really work in drug rehabilitation to know what a tube for bong is.

Branden of Mancos, CO May 30, 2009

Purchased a product on Ebay. Seller would only accept check. Reassured me of the product since we are in the same field. Payed by wire transfer then received only part of the product. When confronted by email and phone it took another 3 months to get the product. I was away from the country during this time and had to have a freind go to the work and get the rest of the missing products parts. I still am missing parts for the machine (I had to fix the machine as well) 3 parts in all.

The seller refuses to send the items, as previously listed on ebay (violation) he not only refuses to send the items but will not reimburse me the money to purchase the items I am missing. I have emailed the seller many times with pictures of the missing parts and I was assured he had them. Economic Pacojet New 4300 with all parts. My cost 3000, missing 120 pacojet canisters with lids and 43 Pacojet black splash guard. I had to fix a part of the computer chip and have that mailed outside the country (121.63) and many conversations on the phone again outside the country 100+. All I want is to reimbursed for the Black Splash Guard, PAcojet containers and the Computer chip which had to be tested.

Mark of Livingston, NJ May 21, 2009

Some how I got signed up for a store on ebay. The charges are never ending. All I wanted was to sell a few items and be done. Instead I'm in an endless loop trying to cancel my account to stop the never ending charges. Ebay is misleading; complicated by design and near impossible to contact. Some links for account cancellation are broken. One link told me I couldn't cancel my account fro 30 days since I just made a payment! What!

precious of bronx, NY May 1, 2009

I Went on craigslist looking for a car. I found one contact the seller. we talked via phone and email. the seller suggest that we go thru ebay purchase protection program so we both could be safe. it sound good so I went along with it and gave her my address so she could contact ebay to set things up. she did. with I was to belive was an ebay agent contact me so she could set up the invoice and tell me where to wire the money.

I'm guessing ones the invoice was done she emailed it to me and told me that the car would be shipped asap and that the payment wouldn't get to the seller til I get the car and send the agent a comp # then she would send the money to the seller so we wouldn't get scam.

yea right I was scamed out of 4485.00. I have no car still and out of the cash to buy the car.

elaine of tomball, TX April 28, 2009

There are hundred of coupons for a free 37.5 lb of Purina Pro Plan listed on ebay since the first part of March. I have contacted consumer affairs the first part of March to see if these coupons are real and the only answer I get is "we don't recommend buying coupons off of ebay" Are these real or not? There is one seller that has sold almost l000 of these coupons for as little as 8.00. Is Purina waiting until it is such a big money amount and a lot of its customers involved before it takes any action? It's like being pregnant-you are either pregnant or not pregnant. Are These COUPONS Real or NOT?

jeanette of nottingham, United Kingdom April 27, 2009

I was declared bankrupt on 26th feb 2009 i notified ebay & paypal immediately of my situation .I asked the reciever ,ebay ,& paypal if i could open a personal ebay account as my business one was no good anymore they all said yes ,upon the reciever freezing my account ,i had more than enough to pay my ebay fees out of my Business paypal account, but was not allowed to authorise it as per recievers instructions ebay then suspended my business account, my personel account has also been suspended and the monies in the personel paypal have also been frozen now so what was meant to be a fresh start has turned into an absolute nightmare now reciever says he waiting for the funds from business account to be transferred to him and the £90 in the personel is just sitting there i have already paid the outgoings i am at a lose end i cannot find anyone that can help me to add insult to injury ebay conned me into phoning this number saying it would be all sorted out so like a fool i did it was a £1.50 a min number and i have been billed just over £26 for the call !!

Fred of Halethorpe, MD April 25, 2009

Allowed return weeks after sale. Refunded item cost and shipping for item that was not returned.

Hailey of Puyallup, WA April 24, 2009

Is this legal for ebay to have this new policy of no checks or money orders accepted? Paypal & Propay as the accepted payments? Seems as though they just want another way to get another cut of the money.

Lori of Los Angeles, CA April 23, 2009

ebay continues to remove listings with false claims and refuses to supply me any information as to why they were removed. they refuse to reply to any emails and have allowed other users to access my personal information without permission. i have lost 4000 as a direct result of my account being suspended 2 times in one month for false claims

Shawn H of San Jose, CA April 22, 2009

If you're unhappy with eBay, Inc. please be sure to file a complaint with Attorney General's office online: http://www.ag.ca.gov eBay, Inc. is by far the worst company that I had to deal with in the past 15 years. The employees including supervisors are EXTREMELY RUDE and UNTRAINED & UNPROFESSIONAL. They DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEIR CUSTOMERS, HANG UP ON YOU WHEN YOU CALL THEM! eBay should either clean up their act or be closed for good. Since eBay has over 4000 unresolved complaints with BBB in the past year, make sure to also submit a formal complaint to Attorney General's office. Their website is http://www.ag.ca.gov Even thinking that eBay could still be in business the way they do business makes me sick! Buyers & Sellers BEWARE of EBAY!!! STAY AWAY!!

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