Summary-the fraudulent account listings were active for the whole weekend. Callum still has 37 negative feedbacks left by a feral scammer on his account, still not removed by TM. This has now got to a stage when other members are affected while trying to fight scammers (instead of TM) How's that scam article going, Michelle? So far I talked to Anthony, Shara, Kirsty and you. All of you said that you would "pass it on" to your team. Can someone from the team who received at least 4 messages in the past year, acknowledge the problem? Disabling accounts is not an effective solution.
Second scammer just relisted the Nord that Callum bought, so the fraudulent account is still active, 36 hours after the initial listing.
Wow indeed. I hope that they are removed ASAP. You have really taken one for the team and I hope that TM will appreciate you doing their job by providing you with some benefits(but who am I kidding...) Thank you for doing this, Callum! This also means that TM would have to refund you all the "success" fees that were immediately taken off you(the only thing TM seems to do fast is to take your money)
Congratulations, Callum, you were ahead of TM, again. They should give you a discount for being a repeated customer;) BTW, another one was "purchased" by scammer himself for some reason. He now has an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X which is also obviously fraudulent. Twice now, I see that TM disables sellers, but leaves the listings live, like in this case.
The seller didn't even bother using different photos, same photos for two different listings, one in New Plymouth, one in Auckland.
Literally the same scammer that Callum "bought" from, about3 weeks ago now, just listed TWO Nords, from TWO different accounts. I guess TM will get this message on Monday and will "pass it on"
Dear Trade me, since recently, there is an overseas seller who clogs the Saxophone category with their brand new accessories(under "saxophone" AND "accessories" category). They do not answer questions or listen to requests to remove the listings, which are in the wrong category. Some items are completely irrelevant, like toys. This makes browsing less efficient. Yes, I can filter it to "NZ listings", but why do I have to go through it, when the seller doesn't abide by TM rules to list in the correct category? This is probably just another post that you will ignore, but just putting it out ...
This is great to hear Michelle. The first step would be to post an article on your scam page about genuine accounts being hacked and expensive items listed, with a checklist for buyers: 1) Does the BN price seems too good? 2) Did the trader have recent trades? 3) Are pickups offered? 4) Do identical photos come up in google search? Unlike setting up the filters/screening listing, posting an article like this wouldn't cost you anything and can be done immediately.
Forgot to add to the filter-to flag any accounts that's been inactive for 6 months or more which suddenly list expensive items. I know you are not going to do any of this, but in this thread-it will stay on record. Asked you about this many times for a year now.
Thank you Michelle, then I hope that you will see this message: Automate the screening of the listings to flag suspicious ones(for example, Yamaha/Nord/Roland/Korg/Kawai in musical instruments, which are over $1000, doesn't have PICKUP ONLY and doesn't have Ping) to be one step ahead of scammers. Repeat with other categories popular with scammers. None of us here are paid to do this for you. For the company, which made nearly $90m last year, this is not good enough.