I bought it from ebay...
One fine summer I booked two week in the sun in Spain with my missus. The only problem is that I was bidding on something on ebay that I really wanted and it ended when I would have been on holiday.

Que me telling my mate my username and password and asking him to keep bidding for me should someone else outbid me. 1st mistake!

I would apologise for length but it's all I have left at the moment...

The item was bidding for around £75-£80 when I left. I did indeed win the bid but he started a bidding war with someone and ended up buying the item for no less than £215! Now I could've bought said item for £175 new in the shops.

Que him telling my other mate about it (who is the biggest joker on the Earth) 2nd mistake! Maybe not mine but it stems from mistake number 1 so...

I come back from holiday feeling refreshed and expecting my item to be there waiting for me. Nope. Nothing. And that wasn't the only thing missing...

Mate 2 (Joker) had watched mate 1 enter my username and password and went back to his house and proceeded to sell pretty much the contents of my house on ebay. T.V, PS2, Nintendo Wii (Which I had bought about 2 weeks before I went on holiday) along with all the games for them, and some other things some which you probably wouldn't get anymore.

Now myself thinking that it was one of his wind ups thought he'd hidden the stuff. There's only one way to find out...

Yup I log onto ebay and find out that indeed he had sold all the items. After launching a tirade of verbal abuse on said mate, I decide to check my Paypal account and see how much in credit I am, so I can start buying stuff back.

ACCOUNT BALANCE: 0.00

The fucker only decided that he shouldn't have done what he did and tried buying what he sold back from different sellers, to stop me from noticing.

Wii cost me: £150 (As my other mate, not relating to this story, owned a games shop and got me a pretty good discount). And that was with 3 games.

Wii cost mate: £445 with all the games he sold back.

Television cost me: Nothing. Got it from my mother when I moved out. Brand new widescreen HD ready television. Probably cost my mother somewhere in the region of £200-£300 though.

Television cost him: £995 as he thought to say sorry he'd order me a bigger telly.

All the odds and ends he bought back cost roughly around £250 more than what they should have.

As I'm not a millionaire, the bank wasn't happy with said payments going out so they returned them and charged me £30 for each return. They can only charge £90 per month, so I still have about 2 months worth of charges left.

AND because most of the payments to sellers was returned by the bank, I received 7 NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS! Now as I only use ebay to buy, I always had 100% rating. I roughly had about a 65% rating, before ebay decided that after 7 unpaid item disputes unanswered they would suspend my account.

Oh, and the payment for the Wii got returned but the 4 games he bought didn't so I now have 4 wii games which I can't resell on ebay nor play.

Moral of the story is never trust your mates with something which could bankrupt you.
( sausagesucker just paid £5.00 for a cup of Tea!, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 11:22, 8 replies)

Bloody hell.
Sounds like you need some new mates.
(danlondonny, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 11:34, closed)

With mates like that, who needs burglers?
You were a lot more restrained than I would have been. I think I may actually have called the police on the 2nd guy.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 11:35, closed)

REPLY
I was tempted but they both clubbed together to pay my bills for a month. Still not enough though. Missus wasn't so forgiving though.
( sausagesucker just paid £5.00 for a cup of Tea!, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 11:48, closed)

Never link a bank account to a paypal account
This is another example of why you should never link a bank account to a paypal account.
Pay by credit card. If you get defrauded just tell the credit card company the transaction was not authorised and they will charge it back to paypal. Merchants take the risk in "card not present" credit card transactions.

Paypal want a bank account number to register as a seller so just give them a sort code for a real uk bank and a made up account number. They won't find out it's invalid until they try to take money from you.
(t18, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 13:59, closed)

Deal or no deal...
...so what are the Wii games and how much are you after?
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 14:35, closed)

you poor sod
i reckon you need to replace the word "mate" with the word "twat"...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 15:52, closed)

Jesus....
I would have been cleaning the soggy remains of them off my shoes after that lot. Or at least be pointing at them and laughing in the courtroom.
( DarkSon a time and date will follow this username on, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 16:38, closed)

You need this
www.auctionstealer.com/home.cfm

and some new mates. What are the Wii games?
( Dabooka_ has changed his name on, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 17:22, closed)