Paid for 10.1 Quad Tablet on the 18-12-2013 sent same day from Q.land to Vic no show! been scammed.

[b.tara]

Looks like I and many others have been scammed as this seller apparently had 70 of the tablets for sale,and sold out' if that was true this seller would have made over $7000 on the deal.

Feel  stupid as the price was so cheap ....if it looks too good to be true it most proberly is.

This seller has been on ebay for a while so I thought it would be ok ..as we all did.

[padi*0409]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

did you know that you can escalate striaght away? you don't have to wait the 10 days or whatever it is?

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Hmmm, I mentioned that possibility a week ago Crickey in post #16.................................

Guess it got lost in that mayhem....................

"goes back to making paper chains, with feeling........................"

[go-tazz]

These scams have been going for years.

They are one of the easiest to avoid.

If it looks to good to be true it is.

You will not get a genuine item at less then a quarter of the true price,(these so called "bargains" no longer exist on

on this site,(or any other).

Scammers for years have and will keep preying on the gullible and that's why they keep doing it,(it's easy money for

them).

Sorry to anyone that may have been caught up in these scams but I no longer have my saved searches set up so

don't actively search for these scam items anymore.

It's pointless to do so now since the HH thread was removed we can't warn anyone and the scammers list these items

on the weekends when Trust & Safety is invisible so they wont be removed anyway,

[b.tara]

Hi yes I saw that but when I went to do that it was already  escalated by Pay Pal which was mentioned in an earlier post, now its waiting on a reply from seller and that time runs out today.

I just wanted to make sure I dont have to do anything else and I thought calling them was the best thing to do just in case.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@padi.0409.0409 wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

did you know that you can escalate striaght away? you don't have to wait the 10 days or whatever it is?

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Hmmm, I mentioned that possibility a week ago Crickey in post #16.................................

Guess it got lost in that mayhem....................

"goes back to making paper chains, with feeling........................"

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is it a good feeling?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@go-tazz wrote:

These scams have been going for years.

They are one of the easiest to avoid.

If it looks to good to be true it is.

You will not get a genuine item at less then a quarter of the true price,(these so called "bargains" no longer exist on

on this site,(or any other).

Scammers for years have and will keep preying on the gullible and that's why they keep doing it,(it's easy money for

them).

Sorry to anyone that may have been caught up in these scams but I no longer have my saved searches set up so

don't actively search for these scam items anymore.

It's pointless to do so now since the HH thread was removed we can't warn anyone and the scammers list these items

on the weekends when Trust & Safety is invisible so they wont be removed anyway,

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[kirky_kirkenstein]

Don't worry just ignore those people. It makes them feel better to try and sound smarter than others because they have a better knack suppposably for knowing when something is a scam. I can understand your frustration and there is nothing wrong with feeling bad about being ripped off even if we do get our money back its still an inconvenience waiting to get our money back.  I am usually pretty cluey with these things though and same thing happened to me still. I guess we hoped we got a good bargain for Christmas. But in saying that I was also happy to take the risk as I knew we would be reimbursed. Plus I did get a few responses from the seller at the beginning. It wasn't until everyone else caught on about the scam that they stopped replying and hid all their feedback comments. My paypal dispute was automatically escalated and I feel that this is because many have put in disputes with paypal regarding this matter. I think just need to play the waiting games, which is a pain in the **bleep** I know but we will get our money back. I have to wait for a reply for 2 days though from seller on paypal dispute and I don't see that happening anytime soon! 😉

[b.tara]

Thank you for that I made the mistake of replying back, I mean I got into trouble for calling it a scam unbelievable lol.

Sorry...... must stop this as I am giving them the time of day.

Anyway thanks for that info  really appreciate it.

[davewil1964]

No. The issue was you saying you had been scammed. Totally different - we all know it's a scam, just most of us don't bother going ahead and hoping against all evidence that is real.

[b.tara]

Hi' heard from Pay Pal yesterday and they have recovered the money I paid out , that was so quick in fact all I had to do was put the first claim in, Pay Pal escalated the next step themselves as they did you.

Thought I would have to wait a lot longer, as the way they worded it was they recovered the money from the seller ...dont suppose we will ever know the actual story about this.

It would be good to know if  it was the seller or  the site had been hijacked ,got a feeling it was the seller as the repayment was so fast.

There are some huge bargains out there online for me the best sites for that are Catch of the day and Seconds World, have saved up to 76% off from Seconds World, great products and my latest buy was free postage as well so there are great bargains to be had so if it looks too good to be true sometimes applies if from a respected seller.

[i-once-was-bump]

You bought an item that was too good to be true, you paid with Paypal and have now received a refund from Paypal, so where is the scam?

I will tell you, it will come out of the blue in a few months time, they have all the information they want about you.

Unfortunately you will need to be on the look out for at least 12 months being very careful with every email you open.

The seller has only done the preparation for the scam.

No I am not joking, think about it, what did they achieve with what they have done so far?

Nothing, not a thing, not a cent due to all the Paypal refunds so think about why would anyone go to all this trouble.

The fact that you bought the item in the first place makes you an easy target for the real scam.