SCAM ALERT!!! This time from uBid.

[AnyMal]

I received this e-mail from uBid earlier today:

Subject: Safety Concerns Surrounding Your uBid Account
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:44:43 -0800

Dear uBid Customer,

It has come to our attention that within the past few days an email
requesting uBid user IDs and passwords has been sent to some of our users.
THIS IS A FRAUDULENT EMAIL THAT WAS NOT SENT FROM UBID -- PLEASE DO NOT
PROVIDE YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD.

If you received the email, and provided your login and password as
requested on the bogus website, please reply to this email immediately. We
will disable your account as soon as we receive notification from you
to prevent future access to your personal information. A customer care
representative will contact you if your account has any activity on it,
such as open auctions, recent orders, etc. for instructions on how to
transition to a new account. If your account does not have recent
activity, simply create a new user login and password. To protect yourself
and your personal information, we urge you to contact your credit card
company if you did provide your login and password to the bogus website
to prevent any unauthorized purchases.

In the future, please keep the following safety tips in mind:

uBid will never ask you to provide credit card information or your
password through an unsecured email transmission. Please report such
requests immediately to fraudprevention@ubid.com.
All email correspondence from uBid is sent from an address that ends
in @ubid.com, @ubid.ymc1.net, or @ubid.p0.com. If you receive an email
that claims to have been sent from uBid but does not end in these
addresses, please feel to call 1-888-900-8243 during regular business hours
for verification.
Use common sense when completing transactions with sellers on the
Consumer Exchange -- do not wire money or send cash to complete the
transaction. Look at the seller's ratings before bidding on an auction, and
exercise caution if you choose to bid on items that claim to be shipped
from outside the US. In addition, if something sounds too good to be
true, it probably is. Please visit our Help pages at
http://www.ubid.com/help/topic62.asp for more safe-buying tips on the
Consumer Exchange.
You may view uBid's complete Privacy and Security policy at
http://www.ubid.com/help/topic5.asp. Please keep in mind that uBid's
Help pages contain accurate information regarding all of uBid's policies
and procedures -- if you ever have questions about any of our policies,
please start here: http://www.ubid.com/help/

Thank you for taking the time to review this email as we work together
to build a safer place to shop and sell on uBid.


uBid Customer Care


Just another reminder to use common sense and watch out for scam artists.

 

[hamburglar]

thanks, but any smart consumer would know not to use ubid.

 

[Smolek]

:disgust:

 

[dragonlord2112]

Ubid IS a scam and everyone needs to know to stay away.

 

[kbaxter]

Ubad!

I saw their reseller rating recently. It's like 1.85 out of 10. And that's optimistic!

:|

 

[KrayzieKMF]

i've used ubid once for when they had the gf3 ti 500 for about $104 shipped
everything went fine for me

 

[HFC]

I don't know why uBid is so hated here either. I bought multiple items there and they went fine. I had a few problems but they worked them out fine too.
The scam email was addressed from 'Inc uBid' and I didn't even open it.
The title of the thread probably should be changed from "This time from uBid" to "This time affecting uBid". The cam didn't come from uBid.

 

[dragonlord2112]

Why are people hating Ubid?
1: They charge outragous shipping charges.
2: If an auction ends at a lower price than the seller wants, the item magically does not ship for one reason or another.
3: The auction-does-not-end-until-no-more-bids thing mysteriously raises the prices, by who some suspect are bots or the seller themselves (rumor).
4: VERY poor customer service.

If that's not enough reasons, check Reseller Ratings and see for yourself!

 

[Packy]

Ubid has worked fine for the few transactions I've had with them. Then again, that WAS a year or two ago and sometimes companies go down the tube. I had purchased one of the original Compaq Ipaq's (an Aero to be specific). It was nearly half the price of anything else at the time, and I ended up getting two. One of the battery doors on it broke nearly three months after I bought it, and since it was sold through Ubid, they said just ship it back and we'll give you a refund. They issued the refund as soon as it came back and there weren't any problems.

But like I said, I haven't dealt with them lately.