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To: zonkie who wrote (6564)	7/24/2000 9:45:59 AM
From: The Antique	Respond to of 7772

9:44 am and eBay's site is down :.(

To: zonkie who wrote (6564)	7/25/2000 3:53:23 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

More bad press for pay-pal......PayPal no friend to scam victims Yahoo! users bilked of $10,000 by fake hard drive auctions, while third-party online payment firm offers no protection By Bob Sullivan MSNBC July 18 — In the past three weeks, dozens of Yahoo! auction customers were cheated of at least $100 each by a scam artist selling computer hard drives. Most had used a third-party payment company named PayPal, which advertises itself as the safe and secure way to make payments in online auctions. So the victims were shocked to learn that PayPal — the largest auction payments system, with 2.6 million users — offered them none of the built-in consumer protection familiar to credit card users. ______________\\ Ebay mentioned ....follow link msnbc.com