Saturday, July 17, 2010

READ NOW - WARNING - CHINESE FRAUDSTERS

There are a large number of Chinese fraudsters operating in the popular areas of eBay, particularly consumer electronics.
They are all over the place but in particular they are trying to sell non-existent GPS systems.
They sometimes use nonsense names but have tried more credible ones and they always have up to 15 positives as feedback but if you look at the feedback, it is either for 1p listings or similar nonsense and is too recent. Often the feedback makes no sense; it may be illiterate or it may be buyers' feedback but coming from sellers or sellers' feedback from buyers.
They invariably use one-day listings and the prices are far too cheap. The former is to maximise the possibility of getting away with it before they are rumbled and the latter is to trap the gullible. A real seller would use 7 or 10 day listings to maximise profit.
They sometimes have PayPal accounts but usually not and so you are expected to wire the money or send cash.
Sometimes, these crooks have registered in Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and in fact anywhere but when you look at the listing you can see that it

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