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Major Scam on Ebay for P800 Beware !!! |
lloydcody
Joined: Apr 13, 2003
Posts: 150
From: Wales
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I also almost got conned from a guy saying he was in Romania on business. This was a guy selling his phone on www.freeads.co.uk.
Emailled him a few times but I thought the deal sounded dodgy so i just ignored him in the end!
Good job by the sounds of it!!
Anyone kno why these ppl choose romania?? Or is it all the same guy??
LLOYDY
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methuselah
Joined: Apr 19, 2003
Posts: 50
From: Imperial Beach, San Diego, Cal
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Anybody know of a scammer by the name of POPESCU MARION from ITALY? if so , any info on him would help. Thanks
[ This Message was edited by: methuselah on 2003-04-19 06:49 ] |
350z
Joined: Apr 11, 2003
Posts: 70
From: USA - SAN JOSE
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Actually Ebay is a nice place to shop, if you are careful enough.
For expensive stuff, like P800, I usualy find a seller that I can do a pick up.
You can also see the feedback, mostly they received lots of positive feedbacks from buying not selling. I usualy find a seller with more than 5000 positive feedbacks from selling, although that's not a guarantee.
So far I've bought a notebook, a cellphone and other stuff as well, so far so good tho, but I bought my P800 at Sony Metreon SFO.
The funny thing if you try to find P800 at ebay, there are lots of people email you afterwards, saying that they have a P800 for 500, some even lower than that.. like 400 
Then they want you to transfer the money via Western Union, hehehe they are really bastards, because they know that western union doesnt provide you with the buyer protection refund, so I emailed them saying.. ok you send you stuff first, after I receive it, I'll pay
and my last experience was this.. there was a seller in Hayward selling P800, and she put it on ebay, saying that she would sell it for 600, since she lives in hayward, I told her that I would buy it and do the pick up, she said if you paid by cash, she would sell it for 575, but the weirdest thing of all was.. she didn't has the stuff  she told me I had to wait for a week.. and that was really stupid.
all I can say is just be careful
[ This Message was edited by: 350z on 2003-04-19 17:17 ] |
peanut
Joined: Mar 18, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: UK: Oxon and Leics
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There are quite a few of these sellers on phoneauctions.com too. This one guy said he was in Romania but was British (as I am I suppose) but he kept using terms like 'write me' and 'wire me money'.
That gave it away straight away, so it's alwasy good to email them and check their language style. |
AceCobra1
Joined: Apr 14, 2003
Posts: 119
From: UK
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Always buy from the reputable and reliable sellers ... I can recommend a few like me Ebay ID: bargin_hunters2002 
But I am not selling anything just now.
If you read :
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2723478474
If in doubt, do not bid... maybe put a post here and we will help u check it out | |
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Posted: 2003-04-19 07:15
