PayPal & eBay unsafe: Leo Raporte warns his 2 million listeners
For those who don’t know, Leo Leporte has over 2 million listeners on his podcast TWiT, and his weekend radio show (KFI-AM) in Los Angeles which is also podcasted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte
You can listen to this MP3 broadcast snipped from Leo’s show (4.6 Megs)
where Leo Raporte and Dick DeBartolo account how they were scammed on eBay. They both used PayPal to pay for transaction and lost their money because in reality, PayPal protection was non existent. Listen to the podcast, it’s about 10 minutes long and will open your eyes and hopefully raise your caution when considering buying on eBay :
Click here to listen to the PodCast by Leo Raporte and Dick DeBartolo
After getting burned twice, this time for $2,200:
“eBay doesn’t seem to do very much to prevent [scammers] or discourage [scammers].”
“We’re not protected…[regarding Paypal]“.
“I will never buy anything on eBay ever again….and I going to go on my radio show on a regular basis and tell everybody that.”
Source: See show 588, about 1/2 way down the podcast.
http://twit.tv/dgw588 (Our recording starts at 7th minute of the original PodCast)