On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:32:27 -0500, "jamesgangnc"
wrote:

How about the sellers account was hijacked because he fell for a phishing
scam. Or downloaded a virus that collected his ebay id and password. Ebay
will probably have logs that show that someone provided a good id and
password. It's not ebay's responsibility or capability to know that the
person using the id and password is really the correct person.

All good points.

Doesn't explain contacting email accounts though - I can't see how a
hacker would get around that unless you had the same email password as
your eBay account which doesn't seem likely.

Or maybe it is.

Our ebay account got hijacked. Ebay found it very quickly and disabled it.
I never figured out how it was hijacked because we're pretty good about
recognizing the phishing stuff. After I go it turned back on I got the $5
verisign token for it and paypal.

Well, at least that's a positive.

How did you find out about the hijacking?