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eBay fined for fakes Posted By Chris, July 01, 2008 - 2 Comments

I deal a lot in my day with websites and/or people that are dealing with fake goods. It's through these fake goods too that people are being scammed over and over, either by not receiving any items ordered or by thinking they were actually going to receive the genuine article.

 

So I do get a sense of perverse pleasure in reading things like this.

 

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NZ Banks see the light Posted By Chris, July 01, 2008 - 0 Comments

In June 2007 the New Bankers Association presented a new Code of Practice that tried to shift liability to consumers. I cannot really express it any other way other than to say it was a piece of crap.

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Massive TradeMe scam uncovered Posted By Chris, June 30, 2008 - 1 Comments

Here in New Zealand we don't like to use eBay, the most popular auction website is instead TradeMe. And unfortunately things like this are happening far too often.

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