|
|
Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2019 13:32:11 GMT
And one of these miscreants has the audacity to call itself Vault Media! Legal action may be called for! Or a graveyard hexing at the next dark of the moon...
H
|
|
|
|
Post by andydecker on Jun 4, 2019 17:52:00 GMT
I still don't understand this. As I can't image anybody paying such big sums for an old paperback, this seems to be a small reward for so much elaborate work. Even if one falls for this and pays.
As a customer of Amazon Marketplace you get your money back, if the order doesn't arrive. At least in my experience. Over the years I had this two or three times, no hassle, no problem. So the bookjacker is frauding not the customer but Marketplace if someone really orders a book the fake seller hasn't in the first place? And Amazon has to pay in the end?
If Amazon is too lethargic to follow this up it is - or it is more expensive to try to prosecute this criminal behavoir then to eat the loss - it is their proplem. Still a slippery slope. Theft is theft.
|
|
|
|
Post by humgoo on Jun 5, 2019 3:02:31 GMT
As a "jacker's" catalogue is generated by a robot, he's totally clueless as to what he's "selling" (old paperbacks or not), thus the unrealistic prices (which are also generated by a bot, I suppose).
When someone does fall for it and the jacker can't locate a cheaper copy in another marketplace, they just tell you they no longer have the book in stock (which they've never had in the first place) and then the whole transaction is cancelled and the buyer is refunded. No one really loses anything, except that the would-be buyer has to look for the book again.
Or at least that's how I understand it. The whole thing is a bit of a mystery of course (one should write a story about it)!
|
|
