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Help to stop P900 scam on eBay |
Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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From: UK
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People please help me.
I have been emailing eBay on ukwebform@ebay.com about the following obvious scams for P900 phones (the "traders" are using pictures from Esato):
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3354104532&category=29023
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3052579644&category=41349
I would appreciate your support in lobbying eBay to remove these enteries before too many new eBay users lose money.
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Deanlambert
Joined: Sep 10, 2003
Posts: 466
From: East Yorkshire
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They are not going to answer straight away. When I've emailed them they have always replied after a couple of days. Then again if ebay can sell a bucket of bristol water...........
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MaThIbUs
Joined: May 17, 2003
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From: Belgium
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Would you buy a phone you never heard of / seen before? No! Without Esato, I'd have never heard of \"P900\"... So I'd also recognize the known pics in eBay auctions. I hope people don't go acting stupid and loose their money.
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Deanlambert
Joined: Sep 10, 2003
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You'd be amazed at the amount of stupid things people will do. Look at that bucket of water thing. I know it was for charity but some people were bidding stupid amounts.
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MaThIbUs
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Anyway, i don't think there's much we can do about this... Our only weapon is emailing eBay, as Jah suggested...
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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The second link interests me since that person has a good ebay rating with lots of recent activity. Normally if someones ebay account has been taken over by scammers there has usually been little activity in the last 6 months nd these sort of accounts are easy to target since the account holder is not regularly watching his account.
The other thought that occurs to me is there could be some preproduction models out there like there was for the P800. Alot of those were sold on ebay prior to official release.
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Deanlambert
Joined: Sep 10, 2003
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From: East Yorkshire
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Can't do anything at all apart from emailing them. I'm selling a p852634505 if anyone is interested
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MaThIbUs
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lol
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Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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@masseur
I asked the sellers, both, to send me a pictures of the actual products and not pictures taken from Esato and my-symbian forums. And guess what - no response!
Many thanks for all your help. I heard about so many people being scamed for P800s in the past - it is very sad as most people don't need to lose 250/300GBP or similar.
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fabrizio
Joined: Mar 06, 2003
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Yeah, the other thing that makes it look kind of shady is the amount of phones they say they are holding. One 50 the other 10...
The one with the good rating, if you look at the previously sold items, they have pretty much nothing to do with phones. A lot of fancy glass stuff...
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hurny
Joined: Dec 04, 2002
Posts: 350
From: Australia
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Fair enough the guy with a rating of only 1 is probably a fraud, but I wouldnt think that someone with a rating of 457 is a fraud.
I'm willing to trust my money with anyone with that kind of rating. He's not stupid enough to throw away is spotless record by selling a phone he doesnt have. |
wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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Mail bomb both of them or add ur own sale to ebay at the same time as the others saying 'Warning - Do not buy a P900' then inside the sale just explain that the pics were taken from esato and point em to this thread. They should also ask for photo proof. Its not obsurd cos p900 wil b on orange shortly
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Deanlambert
Joined: Sep 10, 2003
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From: East Yorkshire
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So is anyone going to buy my phone then? Comes with windows 8000. I only want a grand for it
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nokevin
Joined: Aug 09, 2003
Posts: 291
From: Tenerife
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I have purchased many expensive electronic items via Ebay, just make shore you check everything before buying. If you have a look at the sellers “feedback” most or all of the scammers have purchased lots of inexpensive item to get their feedback rating up. NEVER send the money western union, the best way is “Paypal” and also check what country they are registered in with Ebay and what country they want you to send the money to. I know its very tempting as you think your getting a great deal but they are just scamming MF´s that need to be stopped |
Deanlambert
Joined: Sep 10, 2003
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Well said my dear friend. Couldn't have said it any better. Common sense tho isn't it
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