I'm not in law enforcement, but I am in the LP/AP business. QUESTION: ebay cooperates with LE, does it cooperate as fully and equally with store-level AP/LP investigations? If you have someone you are looking at, can you get a person's seller ID without them having commited a crime? I want to get someone's seller ID, but I don't want them to know I have it (thus I don't want to ask the employee what their ID name is) I simply want to monitor what they are selling. Anyone have any experience in this?
2007-01-17 07:57:11 · 5 answers · asked by Lesleann 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
As a current AP/LP officer I will tell you that EBay puts on a good front. If you get on their website they portray themselves as being very into stopping stolen items from being sold, preventing theft groups, identity theft, etc. But, in my experience even trying to get ahold of someone in their "fraud" department is a total joke. I have even found fraudulent gift cards on their site and they rarely reply to any attempt to contact. I will get an occasional "we work very hard in preventing fraud" type of email from them. Even if you are not in the LE/LP/AP business you can tell over half of their items being sold are more likely stolen. But selling items is their business and I honestly don't think they even care if its stolen or not, as long as they get their percentage of the sale, they don't care where its from. I agree with the cop who responded to this question, they are very difficult to cooperate with regarding any type of fraud.
2007-01-17 13:44:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a cop and I will tell you that Ebay is not cooperative with law enforcement at all. People on Ebay are always selling stolen goods or they rip off customers and Ebay does not care.
As for Seller ID's, you can ask that person what they are selling? then you can go to the section where you look up only items in your zip code, see if you can find out that way.
Ebay will not give you any seller ID information.
2007-01-17 16:15:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
EBay may not be cooperative, but PayPal will go after people for non-payment and non-delivery. PayPal is the preferred way to pay on EBay.
2007-01-17 18:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anton Mathew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would need a warrant issued, but you would need a lot of PC. EBay does not cooperate with local municipalities they handle a lot of internal issues themselves.
2007-01-17 16:39:24 · answer #4 · answered by Michael R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooh ! you're a sneaky one ,huh ? Good ! stick with e-bay ! I personally would rather eat Rocca out of a CatBox Before ever doing business with e-bay
2007-01-22 17:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by boatworker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋