LiamKerrington
Mar 11th, 2013, 12:30 PM
Hi there,
currently I check Amazon for the Nexus 7 32GB WiFi only device on a regular basis, because the mode to order and receive stuff via Amazon is much more interesting for me then via any other platform. A few minutes I happened to notice an offer that was too good to be true: a certain seller via Amazon marketplace sold the Nexus 7 32GB for lousy 200 bucks; his order was about 40-60 bucks lower then any other offer for this device - a deal too good to be true; and he wanted to sell the device as a "new" and not as a "used/ 2nd hand" device. That was incredible ...
Now, a couple of things started to bother me. And these things - actually - are typical signs for a fraudster, scammer or whatever you want to call it:
a) The seller was a "New Seller" on the marketplace at Amazon thus you have no information regarding his reliability;
b) Amazon did not provide any information about him - probably, because he is bloody new to the marketplace, I don't know;
c) as a name "he" chose: CONTACT ME AT *email* at msn (dot) com (why not contact via the Amazon-mail-service?), so this could be a measure to keep Amazon as a third party out of any relation which again would lead to reducing evidence in case things go south;
d) over a span of about 15 minutes "he" started to fill his market-place store with a variaty of different sweet IT- and multi-media devices like Samsung screens, iPhones, tablets, notebooks and docking-stations; some were labeled with a price, some were not; and the ones with a price were tagged with the information that there would be three items available, so "order now". The interseting thing now is that ALL items in the store were either items not available anymore 'cause they are outdated (iPhones) or because they are still not available yet - so why the eff does the seller mention then that there were 3 items available?
Question: Is this guy a fraudster? I believe so ... Maybe I am wrong, but who cares what I think, right? Anyway: I just wanted to inform you to keep an eye open when you start ordering stuff via online-stores. The four things I mentioned above are typical clues, and normally a red flag should show up when you see things like this happening. I really hope that I am wrong, but my guts tell me something different, which is why I informed Amazon about my suspicion; I also sent the guy an e-mail on the e-mail-adress he mentioned that I was interested in his so quickly expired Nexus 7 order ... Let's see what will be the result ...
All the best!
Liam
currently I check Amazon for the Nexus 7 32GB WiFi only device on a regular basis, because the mode to order and receive stuff via Amazon is much more interesting for me then via any other platform. A few minutes I happened to notice an offer that was too good to be true: a certain seller via Amazon marketplace sold the Nexus 7 32GB for lousy 200 bucks; his order was about 40-60 bucks lower then any other offer for this device - a deal too good to be true; and he wanted to sell the device as a "new" and not as a "used/ 2nd hand" device. That was incredible ...
Now, a couple of things started to bother me. And these things - actually - are typical signs for a fraudster, scammer or whatever you want to call it:
a) The seller was a "New Seller" on the marketplace at Amazon thus you have no information regarding his reliability;
b) Amazon did not provide any information about him - probably, because he is bloody new to the marketplace, I don't know;
c) as a name "he" chose: CONTACT ME AT *email* at msn (dot) com (why not contact via the Amazon-mail-service?), so this could be a measure to keep Amazon as a third party out of any relation which again would lead to reducing evidence in case things go south;
d) over a span of about 15 minutes "he" started to fill his market-place store with a variaty of different sweet IT- and multi-media devices like Samsung screens, iPhones, tablets, notebooks and docking-stations; some were labeled with a price, some were not; and the ones with a price were tagged with the information that there would be three items available, so "order now". The interseting thing now is that ALL items in the store were either items not available anymore 'cause they are outdated (iPhones) or because they are still not available yet - so why the eff does the seller mention then that there were 3 items available?
Question: Is this guy a fraudster? I believe so ... Maybe I am wrong, but who cares what I think, right? Anyway: I just wanted to inform you to keep an eye open when you start ordering stuff via online-stores. The four things I mentioned above are typical clues, and normally a red flag should show up when you see things like this happening. I really hope that I am wrong, but my guts tell me something different, which is why I informed Amazon about my suspicion; I also sent the guy an e-mail on the e-mail-adress he mentioned that I was interested in his so quickly expired Nexus 7 order ... Let's see what will be the result ...
All the best!
Liam