pitney bowes postal scam

[ag4440]

the global shipping program is a scam

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Slr, I'll give it to within 12 hours to make an appearance with the same repetative diatribe. I guess it's lucky the GST wasn't mentioned as well, or we'd really be in trouble. What, with all the every day people selling off personal items. Someone's mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, the next door neighbours brothers wifes sisters husbands mothers boyfriends ex-girlfriends dog. Disgusting and nothing more than a big fat scam.

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Just kill me now, it's rubbing off!

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If he does appear......

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I'm calling November

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

@tippy

I’d forgotten about the earlier posts I’d made on this thread.  At least 4channel now understands about how dates show on mobile view. 

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I never did get an apology from 4channel for telling me I got the dates wrong, when in actual fact he got the dates wrong.  Admittedly, he was a rookie back then, so he wasn’t to know about how dates are displayed . . . . . . and rookies rarely apologise for their mistakes.  They are too busy trying to build up their posting cred and working out where they are in a self imposed pecking order.  

[tazzieterror]

schroedinger-cat, your post raises an interesting question about the quantum superposition of dead forum threads; at what point does a thread cease to have a non-trivial linear combination of states and instead adopt a unique classical description?

i.e. When is a dead forum thread no longer dead?

The answer: all too often. 

[countessalmirena]

S = kB ln Ω (assuming equiprobable microstates).

However, if each microstate is not equally probable - and if putatively a dead forum thread's macroscopic quantities skew Ω - then we have flippity-floppity dead forum thread states where entropy keeps giving the kiss of life to the dead-thread-in-the-box.

[countessalmirena]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

@tippy

I’d forgotten about the earlier posts I’d made on this thread.  At least 4channel now understands about how dates show on mobile view. 

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I never did get an apology from 4channel for telling me I got the dates wrong, when in actual fact he got the dates wrong.  Admittedly, he was a rookie back then, so he wasn’t to know about how dates are displayed . . . . . . and rookies rarely apologise for their mistakes.  They are too busy trying to build up their posting cred and working out where they are in a self imposed pecking order.  

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k1ooo-slr-sales, it's another reason to eschew the mobile view. Poorly implemented! - US-centric date formats! - and an apparent indifference to whom a comment is addressed. I can just imagine the IT team... John X tells Alan Y, "Don't move my coffee cup", and Alan Y tells Melody Z "I didn't touch your coffee cup!", leading Melody Z to respond to Phil Q, "I don't even drink coffee!"...

[4channel]

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@schroedinger-cat wrote:

Why buying from seller, who use it?

Easy: Once and never again! Now I am warned.

I just brought from a seller in the UK, who had no idea he is using it (apparently he made somewhere in eBay an accidental "X".

Same with me: I had no idea that this Pitney Bowes exists, and after oven an hour in a chat with eBay, I had a supervisor explain to me, what it is - I just could not believe it - SCAM is the only word which came to mind!

Since the seller had no idea he "uses" the scammers of Pitney Bowes, he send me the item directly, angry at himself that he made a wrong selection in eBay (so he thought) so that he received only local postage from me and has to send it now to Australia.

I however had to pay a pile of money, which the seller did not receive - neither he or I knew - and could not imagine - that a scamming service like Pitney Bowes could possibly exist.

Anyway, since we are not using the scamming service from the scammers, I am hopeful that Im will receive (after a chat of more than 1 hpour with eBay) a refund from the scammers. It was just incredible how defensive the eBay supervisor (the normal operator had no idea herself what was going on) was of the scammers, defending their service again and again. I just can't believe how sick it is that the seller has to send (and I have to pay it) the item locally and the I have to pay postage (at inflated rates with ahndling) to get the item send overseas.

SOme real WISE GUY came up with new scam idea.

Cheers, Peter

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Yes schroedinger-cat, it is a disgusting scam and yet we see that it has its apologists. I feel for you that you had to go through this. Yes, it was a wise guy that came up with this idea to create a money making middle man scam and for them it works.

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Pitney Bowes: unjustified extra fees: huge scam: who will stop this scam

06-28-2013 09:35:19 PM

@habanera4ima  wrote:

This "third party" Pitney Bowes is running a disgusting scam on eBay! How can customers make ebay aware that this is a fraud ? This third party does not represent official customs an does not give US or Canadian customs any money, they put it all in their pockets. By using fraudulously the term "custom fees", they are not only lying to ebay buyers, but also to official authorities who are not getting these extra "custom fees". Sellers! Why do you make business with these people? they are stealing money from you and from your customers! If ebay cannot or will not take action, this fraud issue will be taken directly to the federal governments of both countries to unveil the scam. Enough is enough!

 "They are a racket. Charged me 51 dollars for shipping an item that was 24 dollars shipping on the receipt from the ebay store. " in "Seller Central"

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Seller-Central/Pitney-Bowes-unjustified-extra-fees-huge-scam-who-will-s...

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 I 100% agree with habanera4ima  and that is a good summary.

[padi*0409]

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@4channel wrote:

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Pitney Bowes: unjustified extra fees: huge scam: who will stop this scam

06-28-2013 09:35:19 PM

@habanera4ima  wrote:

This "third party" Pitney Bowes is running a disgusting scam on eBay! How can customers make ebay aware that this is a fraud ? This third party does not represent official customs an does not give US or Canadian customs any money, they put it all in their pockets. By using fraudulously the term "custom fees", they are not only lying to ebay buyers, but also to official authorities who are not getting these extra "custom fees". Sellers! Why do you make business with these people? they are stealing money from you and from your customers! If ebay cannot or will not take action, this fraud issue will be taken directly to the federal governments of both countries to unveil the scam. Enough is enough!

 "They are a racket. Charged me 51 dollars for shipping an item that was 24 dollars shipping on the receipt from the ebay store. " in "Seller Central"

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Seller-Central/Pitney-Bowes-unjustified-extra-fees-huge-scam-who-will-s...

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 I 100% agree with habanera4ima  and that is a good summary.

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The only part of that diatribe that's correct is the part I've underlined 4channel. PB collects the GST (as do other mail forwarding companies) and remits it to the ATO.

PB have to charge the buyer for Goods AND services (ie. postage,  fees for collecting the GST etc)

All charges are upfront before you pay (even if the GST amount is not shown originally - indeed how could it be since the destination of the parcel is not known until checkout)

[lyndal1838]

Padi, that post was made in 2013 by a Canadian member so it has absolutely nothing to do with GST.

Where did it come from anyway.....it is not anywhere in sight on this thread even when it was new and current.

It seems that 4channel has exhausted threads on the Australian boards so has to look further afield for posts to answer.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

The 

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

Padi, that post was made in 2013 by a Canadian member so it has absolutely nothing to do with GST.

Where did it come from anyway.....it is not anywhere in sight on this thread even when it was new and current.

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Canadian member posting on a Canadian thread.  If you click on the link provided by 4channel you get to the Canadian boards.  When I clicked the link I got taken to a thread with 11 pages of posts.  I didn’t read any of them.

[padi*0409]

lyndal and slr, I will now proceed to slap my head vigorously for failing to research where that link came from.................

A new depth to rumour-mongering methinks in november.