I would like to add something to  your excellent article on Ebay in the July issue of PCW and alert you and other readers to a  problem.

I am an occasional user of Ebay  and recently found to my horror that someone had somehow put several items  purporting to be for sale by me onto my account. I was apparently selling some 8  computers with a total listing fee alone of over £216. I don’t know how it was  done or why apart from some hacker discovering they could do it so they did.  Each item had a starting price of £0.99 and was listed as a 24 hour auction.  Each item was listed in 2 categories with all the enhanced features possible  such that the listing fee alone for each item was £27.

Luckily I spotted it and I hope I  have managed to cancel all the charges. I contacted Ebay and they were  very helpful and all charges were cancelled (or at least they have said they  will be).

The advice from Ebay was to change one's password frequently – a tip that may be worth passing on.
I would still like to know how or  why this seemingly malicious thing was done. All I can think is that I was looking to buy a notebook on Ebay and someone's listing may have had a link to  somewhere else?

Alex  Wood