What Does It Do – The Essentials?

“You will be scammed on eBay. The only question is when” – This is the opening line on the Auction Inquisitor website. Perhaps a bit over the top, a theme of the developers as you will see below, but the fact is that there is a lot of fraud on eBay and you should do the best you can to protect yourself. Carrying out checks manually is something we all probably do, looking for obvious signs in the text, location, pricing and auction text. How much better to have a utility that does the donkey work for you.

Auction Inquisitor helps by carrying out a range of checks on an individual auction. It provides a summary of significant indicators of potential eBay fraud along with some sound advice on how to guard against making the wrong decision. I like the way it presents the advice along with sensible suggestions about how you should interpret and use the information. Health warning: The Auction Inquisitor website and the start screen for the program may offend your sense of good taste – it’s a bit in your face and “please click on the links to buy our other products or those we advertise”. The screenshot above of their logo probably says it all. However the usefulness of the program itself justifies putting up with this! This is a good example of a program that is freeware because it has a sales model based on selling/advertising and using the eBay system to indirectly generate income.

Summary:

• Checks individual auctions against a range of criteria which may indicate fraud
• Provides a summary against these criteria

Pros: What’s Good?

• Freeware

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