Making a joke ebay sale - how?
06-04-2005, 17:02
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Making a joke ebay sale - how?
Just out of idle curiosity, how do people manage tomake these joke/hoax ebay sales?
Supposing I wanted to sell Buckingham palace etc.
How would I do that? I thought that you needed to give credit card details in order to be able to sell?
Cheers.
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06-04-2005, 17:14
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
A lot of people use free listing days, to encourage people to sign up and get selling. I doubt you'd have to give you CC for that.
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06-04-2005, 17:14
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
IIRC, eBay don't actually verify the card details that you give them..... Of course I would never suggest that you falsify your card details.
I think the way that most people do it is to simply create the sale from within their own eBay account.
At the end of the day, provided you don't do anything truelly stoopid it shouldn't have any effect on your seller ratings/feedback so it shouldn't matter.
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06-04-2005, 18:31
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
Members who signed up more than 2 years ago were not asked for their credit card details. Its only now that they ask for people who sign up new accounts.
You could easily type a normal auction and make it a funny description.
Note however that ebay have the rights to take it off the site when they please, and if you do get people bidding silly amounts into the millions, do cancel the auction atleast a day before it ends so you dont have to pay out a big percentage fee to ebay.
If you want to save your auction page, just save the page as a complete webpage and upload it your own space.
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06-04-2005, 19:21
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
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Originally Posted by zoombini
Supposing I wanted to sell Buckingham palace etc.
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I'll give you a quid for it...! 
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06-04-2005, 19:22
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
£1.01!
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06-04-2005, 19:24
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
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Originally Posted by Zeph
£1.01!
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And a tin of Baked Beans!
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06-04-2005, 20:07
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
Did you know you could buy rep points so you can make yourself really good at whatever you sell? I need a sep IP so that you cannot be traced back. But that is all I know mate!!!
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06-04-2005, 21:08
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
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IIRC, eBay don't actually verify the card details that you give them.....
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They do. They place a small transaction against the card and then refund it.
Sometimes your credit card company's fraud system then gets upset and you find out about it.
Then you complain to eBay, since they didn't point out they would do this.
As to a 'joke sale' - you can list just about anything - if it breaks their listing rules it will eventually get pulled, sometimes quite quickly.
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06-04-2005, 21:44
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
[QUOTE=ScaredWebWarrior]They do. They place a small transaction against the card and then refund it.
True!
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07-04-2005, 09:03
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Re: Making a joke ebay sale - how?
oK THANKYOU.
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