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Possible scams on Amazon UK (1 Viewer)

The "business type" is listed as bathroom sealant. Trying to picture in my head how to use a binocular for advertising purposes.
 
Paying outside of Amazon comes with all sorts of risks including not being able to use their dispute resolution process.

There has been a similar scam running with accommodation on various sites with some wanting to take payment outside of the particular website e.g Booking.com


Andy
 
Another just launched offer of just over £400---has appeared. Fell from the back of a truck , and the price is too good to be true.
 
Strange spelling also.

Years ago I had some dealings with someone selling optics, and didn't buy because they had literally come from the back of a truck.
He diappeared for 18 months, apparently a guest at her majesties pleasure.

Similar thing with someone else selling Viagra pills on the side.

Just had some low life trying to tell me I had white goods insurance and I just should press a number on the telephone keypad.

I probably get two attempted scams daily.

How I love this digital age.

P.S.
My mother once described how a homeless man begged the police to lock him up as it was cold being outside.
They said they didn't have room and he had not committed a crime.

So he got a brick and threw it through a shop window.
He then got arrested and spent time in the warmth.
 
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andyadcock said:
Paying outside of Amazon comes with all sorts of risks including not being able to use their dispute resolution process.
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This advertisement for the binoculars however does not request payment outside Amazon - there is no requirement to contact the supplier or anything, you simply add it to your basket and proceed as usual. If the product was not delivered, Amazon would act to resolve I assume.

I only ever had one Amazon product not arrive and Amazon itself refunded the money paid.
 
I do not know how it works in Europe, but here in that US you also have protections by protesting a charge to the credit card company.
 
I find it strange how masses of people put their jobs at risk by encouraging this digital revolution and massive corporations.
Short term gain, instant daily fixes to stimulate the pleasure centre, so that their own and neighbours jobs disappear.

To know the cost of everything but not the value of many things.

Unfortunately, I also take part, but on the sidelines.
I support the milkman, window cleaner, corner shop etc. I prefer to pay a bit more for goods at a bricks and mortar store.
I don't buy from Amazon or ebay, although friends have used it for me occasionally.

The fraudsters, scammers and forgers have an excellent life at the cost of people trying to live by basic rules.

But I am old and grumpy. The young have their new life. I hope it makes them happier.
So I let the world take me or pass me by as partly an outsider.
 
I find it strange how masses of people put their jobs at risk by encouraging this digital revolution
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Says the man with over 2000 posts on Forum...
Damn this "digital revolution"

(With apologies to any Horse Courier Services I may have inadvertently put out of business using electronic communication for this message)
 
I am well aware of the Enigma.

I only joined about ten years ago.
I wish the internet did not exist, truly.

I used a Pegasus main computer in the 1950s, then had a fifty year gap.

P.S.
Being like King Canute, telling the sea to go back will not help.
The internet is here to stay.
The only thing that will stop the Internet is an impact of a mile wide asteroid on the Earth.
We don't want that to happen, so we are stuck with the internet and the consequences of its existence and relationship with the human race that brought into being.

If it wasn't for a family member being in at the start 50 years ago and being a professional lecturer on the subject, and setting it up for me, I may well have not got started.
I would not have minded not getting started.
 
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Sorry for the outburst at the internet.

Although these are my true feelings about the internet, I need to be less angry with it.
Generally being angry is not helpful, and one needs to be calm and reflective.

I was a mathematician long ago, and had I carried on with that I would have grown up with computers.
As it is I worked as a company rep and spent my working life on the road.
This was actually much better for me.

I have been an astronomer for 60 years, but I take little part with the digital side.

I only use the internet to write, where previously I wrote letters and to read what others write, and to look up questions that I may have.

I have no i phone or similar.
My computer is old, as I need a classic screen.

I use Canon IS binoculars and digital cameras. Also other devices that contain computers.
In this respect I am less conservative than most birdwatchers who seem to shun digitally driven binoculars

But I really do get upset at how many scammers there are.
There is a very negative side to this new world, but I should just avoid that part as much as I can.

Sorry again for being negative, when it is important to be positive with the world.
 
ceasar said:
Here is a recent comment (today) from another website about Amazon "counterfeits" affecting Apple's products.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231580
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Amazon is not such a safe place. Even articles sold by Amazon can be counterfeit, as WSJ published in 2014.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-opens-door-to-knockoffs-1399852852

I was bitten once a couple of years ago. I needed some SAS cables for a quick prototype, and I ordered them from Amazon. The cables I received were clearly counterfeit, labelled as products from LSI Logic, with a fake part number, and very poor quality connectors. I had to literally destroy one in order to disconnect it and not damage an expensive storage server.

I contacted LSI Logic even, and after exchanging some photos they didn't say I was wrong. Other LSI Logic cables I purchased at the same time had much better quality, branded connectors from a reputable manufacturer (Molex) and the difference was clear.

At least if your order is fulfilled and sold by Amazon you can get your money back. But there are products with potentially serious safety issues (something you especially take seriously in UK).
 
Borjam said:
Amazon is not such a safe place. Even articles sold by Amazon can be counterfeit, as WSJ published in 2014.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-opens-door-to-knockoffs-1399852852

I was bitten once a couple of years ago. I needed some SAS cables for a quick prototype, and I ordered them from Amazon. The cables I received were clearly counterfeit, labelled as products from LSI Logic, with a fake part number, and very poor quality connectors. I had to literally destroy one in order to disconnect it and not damage an expensive storage server.

I contacted LSI Logic even, and after exchanging some photos they didn't say I was wrong. Other LSI Logic cables I purchased at the same time had much better quality, branded connectors from a reputable manufacturer (Molex) and the difference was clear.

At least if your order is fulfilled and sold by Amazon you can get your money back. But there are products with potentially serious safety issues (something you especially take seriously in UK).
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My hard and fast rule is that I don't buy anything from China or Hong Kong, items from here will almost certainly be fake.

It doesn't guarantee that someone else hasn't bought fakes from China and is passing them on of course but how can you know that?

Governments have continually requested that China clamp down on the huge market in counterfeit goods that come from there but they don't act. Counterfeits are produced cheaply after another company has spent maybe millions in R+D, they are just back engineerd by the Chinese and they are on open sale all over Chinas market from IPODS to cameras and computers, they are even faking fossils now!

Bottom line, China is making billions whilst not spending a penny in R+D.


Andy
 
Borjam said:
Amazon is not such a safe place. Even articles sold by Amazon can be counterfeit, as WSJ published in 2014.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-opens-door-to-knockoffs-1399852852

I was bitten once a couple of years ago. I needed some SAS cables for a quick prototype, and I ordered them from Amazon. The cables I received were clearly counterfeit, labelled as products from LSI Logic, with a fake part number, and very poor quality connectors. I had to literally destroy one in order to disconnect it and not damage an expensive storage server.

I contacted LSI Logic even, and after exchanging some photos they didn't say I was wrong. Other LSI Logic cables I purchased at the same time had much better quality, branded connectors from a reputable manufacturer (Molex) and the difference was clear.

At least if your order is fulfilled and sold by Amazon you can get your money back. But there are products with potentially serious safety issues (something you especially take seriously in UK).
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My hard and fast rule is that I don't buy anything from China or Hong Kong, items from here will almost certainly be fake.

It doesn't guarantee that someone else hasn't bought fakes from China and is passing them on of course but how can you know that?

Governments have continually requested that China clamp down on the huge market in counterfeit goods that come from there but they don't act. Counterfeits are produced cheaply after another company has spent maybe millions in R+D, they are just back engineerd by the Chinese and they are on open sale all over Chinas markets from IPODS to cameras and computers, they are even faking fossils now!

Bottom line, China is making billions whilst not spending a penny in R+D.


Andy
 
Binastro said:
Sorry for the outburst at the internet.

Sorry again for being negative, when it is important to be positive with the world.
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No need for apology Binastro,

It would be hard to argue that the internet is not reponsible for the rise of many undesirable things, although it is also true that the real reason is what some human beings have done with it. It has made many things easier, communication, and buying, selling, learning, travelling, but it has also made crime and corruption of values much easier as well, so I also am not so sure it has made anything "better" even though I use it.

Look out for the paypal one, you get an email saying you sent a payment to xxx click this link if you did not make this purchase. Clicking the link and logging in to a scam page , it then asks for account details at which point for anyone with a single brain cell the penny will drop and you will close it, but by then you will have given your password, so need to change it.
 
Not Amazon but how about.

Zoom 10-180x100 Central Focus Waterproof Night Vision
Binoculars Telescope

US $35.99

More than 10 available 122 sold.

Free delivery from China
Delivery Nov 2 to Nov 17.

Photo is of a SAKURA Porro with external width open 18cm. With 10-180 x 100 marked clearly.

What more could you wish for?
 
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