The huge demand for tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert has spawned a series of scams, Computeractive has discovered.
Among the genuine auctions for spare tickets to a range of events on Ebay are a number of traders who are selling non-existent tickets for thousands of pounds.
Harvey Goldsmith, rock promoter and organiser of the Led [...]
The trial of a Torquay man accused of an internet auction site fraud conspiracy was brought to an abrupt halt yesterday after one of the key witnesses left the area.Alisdair Noon, 20, of Lummaton Cross, Torquay, has denied the charge of conspiracy to defraud but his trial at Exeter Crown Court had been held up [...]
Joseph Bellis used photographs from catalogues to display on the internet auction site, conning customers into bidding for earrings, vases, cups and saucers, and a Clarice Cliff biscuit barrel, the Llandudno court heard.
District judge Andrew Shaw sentenced the 55-year-old to a two-month curfew operating between 8pm and 8am three nights a week.
Jobless Bellis, of Mostyn [...]
POLICE and trading standards officers swooped on two addresses in a bid to crack down on counterfeiting in York.
Warrants were carried out at a residential address in Howe Hill Close, off Poppleton Road, and a business property in Roland Court, off Huntington Road, in yesterday’s morning raids.
Matt Boxall, trading standards manager at City of York [...]
UK-based Computing Which, a consumer magazine, exposed Internet auction site eBay for its lack of concern over fraud and is calling on eBay to do something about it.
Computing Which? says that eBay needs be more proactive in identifying counterfeit items offered for sale. It wants the auction site to warn customers about the dangers of [...]
A man who offered sheds for sale on an an internet auction site but conned people out of thousands of pounds has banned from setting up a new business.
Philip Mack, 40, from Rhyl, Denbighshire, charged up to £800 a time for timber sheds advertised on eBay, but the items were never delivered.
He admitted five fraud [...]
