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GPS from China on eBay
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| Sébastien MARSOLLE 2005-09-28, 11:48 pm |
| When you search for GPS on eBay, you can find plenty of GPS offers like this
one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=5813480545
They all come from China and the price is very low (40 Euros, 50 $).
Do you thinck we can safely place bid on these auctions ?
SMa
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| nitespark 2005-09-28, 11:48 pm |
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Sébastien MARSOLLE wrote:
> When you search for GPS on eBay, you can find plenty of GPS offers like this
> one:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=5813480545
> They all come from China and the price is very low (40 Euros, 50 $).
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> Do you thinck we can safely place bid on these auctions ?
>
> SMa
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I wouldn't send this guy anything I couldn't afford to lose.
(1) He(?) is no longer a registered user
(2) Feedback is very suspicious. Multiple users with poor language
skills with similar wording....very suspicious.
(3) All of the sales have been within the past 4 days. How could all of
those users have gotten delivery within that short a period of time?
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| dtong22@yahoo.com 2005-09-29, 2:48 am |
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>Do you thinck we can safely place bid on these auctions ?
The answer is no re the following data:
Feedback Score: 10
Positive Feedback: 91.7%
Member since Aug-17-05 in China
Say 10% of respondents gave negative feedback even assuming those
positive ones are not phoney.
Stay away.
Daniel
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| No. There are several very significant warning signs: not registered, low
feedback score, will not accept Paypal, only been on Ebay one month. I
suggest that you avoid this seller.
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| Papa wrote:
> No. There are several very significant warning signs: not registered,
> low feedback score, will not accept Paypal, only been on Ebay one
> month. I suggest that you avoid this seller.
Nice to see that Ebay actually advises people against using Western Union to
pay for items.
I am NOT slating Western Union in any way, but it is definitely not a
sensible way of sending money to someone you don't know. Requests for
payment via Western Union are at the heart of a large number of ebay scams
that my colleagues and I have been investigating recently and I wil not bid
on any auction using such a payment method...sets off all sorts of alarm
bells!
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| http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...qing1020
if it sounds to good to be true...
if it walks like a duck....
figger it out...
"Sébastien MARSOLLE" <sebastien.mars-Olle@nospam.fr> wrote in message
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> When you search for GPS on eBay, you can find plenty of GPS offers like
> this one:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=5813480545
> They all come from China and the price is very low (40 Euros, 50 $).
>
> Do you thinck we can safely place bid on these auctions ?
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> SMa
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| pcmobile99@yahoo.com 2005-09-29, 11:48 pm |
| GPS prices in China are usually double that of US prices.
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| Dennis Pogson 2005-09-30, 5:48 am |
| Tim wrote:
> Papa wrote:
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> Nice to see that Ebay actually advises people against using Western
> Union to pay for items.
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> I am NOT slating Western Union in any way, but it is definitely not a
> sensible way of sending money to someone you don't know. Requests for
> payment via Western Union are at the heart of a large number of ebay
> scams that my colleagues and I have been investigating recently and I
> wil not bid on any auction using such a payment method...sets off all
> sorts of alarm bells!
Then can you suggest an alternative?
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| Dennis Pogson wrote:
> Tim wrote:
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> Then can you suggest an alternative?
Paypal seems reasonably secure and at least you have the benefit of purchase
protection from your credit card issuer.
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| Nospam@nowhere.com 2005-09-30, 11:48 pm |
| Apparently on date Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:10:17 +0200, "Sébastien MARSOLLE"
<sebastien.mars-Olle@nospam.fr> said:
>When you search for GPS on eBay, you can find plenty of GPS offers like this
>one:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=5813480545
>They all come from China and the price is very low (40 Euros, 50 $).
>
>Do you thinck we can safely place bid on these auctions ?
No. You might get lucky, e.g. those email letters from various sons of famous
africans, you never know, some of them may really be from Abdulla al Hussain,
son of Sadam, who now wants to release 50,000,000 dollars worth of gold held in
a bank account that...
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| Michael Salem 2005-10-07, 11:48 pm |
| > No. You might get lucky, e.g. those email letters from various sons of famous
> africans, you never know, some of them may really be from Abdulla al Hussain,
> son of Sadam, who now wants to release 50,000,000 dollars worth of gold held in
> a bank account that...
The Ig Nobel prize for creative fiction has just been awarded to the
writers of these letters.
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| Jerry 2005-11-16, 11:48 pm |
| eBAY has a rash of these Western Union scams (not just GPS sales). Bottom
line, if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true...
I've also seen 'eBAY International' - but that's a scam, doesn't exist
I agree with above, PayPal offers some reasonable security...
"Tim" <void@invalidemail.com> wrote in message
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> Dennis Pogson wrote:
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> Paypal seems reasonably secure and at least you have the benefit of
> purchase protection from your credit card issuer.
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| info@chinavasion.com 2005-11-17, 11:48 pm |
| I also would not buy from this kind of users in China.
Ebay may have a very good protection policy, but if this guy is sending
you broken goods, you still need to prove it.
If you want to buy from some serious companies in China, you should go
along with wholesalers like http://www.chinavasion.com.
They are offering all kind of electronics and you can use escrow or
paypal to protect yourself.
Hope this might help.
Rose
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