habrofan83
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 7:53:35 GMT -5
so here the story, about a month ago i was reading UK classified adverts on different websites and stumbled across an advert
"wwf hasbro complete set moc" price £700
so of course i jumped at the chance and contacted the seller, i had to wait a week for him to reply, his reply was that he used to work in london and had just moved back to germany and the figures were with him.
No problem i said, do you accept paypal. another week goes by without rel ply, he then tells me that he doesn't accept paypal and wants to us a company called maersk shipping (i dont know if they are a real company)
he said he makes a delivery to them, they keep hold of the figures until i pay then they deliver to me, still i tried to contact the company he gave me but had no joy.
now today i got a reply telling me he has made the delivery to the shipping company (a different one than he first said) called ck alliance, i viewed the weblink he sent me and it turns out they wanted me to pay for this via western union money transfer.
good thing im not totally stupid i googled the ck alliance shipping and added the word scam, and there was other stories like mine about someone in germany ripping people off, i hope nobody else got caught in this because it wont end well.
he used the name in england as micheal stanley and his german email was peter brect. hope this helps if any1 else had viewed that ad.
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ICHIBAN 一番
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Post by ICHIBAN 一番 on Mar 7, 2011 8:26:35 GMT -5
Wow, I'd never do business using wire transfer, well done for being cautious.
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Post by rickrudelives on Mar 7, 2011 8:31:13 GMT -5
Well done for putting this up mate WESTERN UNION is a big no no id never pay for anything with that unless i trusted the seller too many people being scammed with western union
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habrofan83
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 8:38:11 GMT -5
i hate it when people are out to rip others off, i like all of us here love the wwf hasbros + others, i just hate to think how many others viewed the ad and how many actually went through with it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 9:15:19 GMT -5
unbelievable, thanks for letting everyone know, im so glad you didnt get caught out. i hate things like this, iv got a good mind to write to ann robinson.  |
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habrofan83
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 9:24:08 GMT -5
he evn sent me pictures of the full set, probably snatched them from here or online
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Post by JCWBobC on Mar 7, 2011 9:30:50 GMT -5
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Post by Grapple Arcade on Mar 7, 2011 9:31:45 GMT -5
unbelievable, thanks for letting everyone know, im so glad you didnt get caught out. i hate things like this, iv got a good mind to write to ann robinson. do it, please do it, id love to see hasbro on watchdog. Ive seen them on carbooty, but watchdog.. thats awesome, if you do that, i will enter mastermind with hasbros being my specialist subject.. lol. O.T - plus karma for sharing this scam info, we did have a thread a while ago which i wanted stickied, it basically had a list of fake/scam ebay and other listings. I dont know why it wasn't stickied or why the thread vanished but it was useful IMO, it helped everyone know of dodgy sellers and scams. I think we should bring it back. |
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Post by Bebop on Mar 7, 2011 9:33:15 GMT -5
Do you have the pictures?
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Post by Hasbroandy on Mar 7, 2011 10:04:22 GMT -5
Oh man such stupid people are all over the world :@ I hate them
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habrofan83
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 10:32:46 GMT -5
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 10:37:07 GMT -5
as soon as i saw it i knew it was too good to be true, i was never stupid enough to hand over any money or details though especially when he didnt accept paypal or debit/credit card.
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 10:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by JCWBobC on Mar 7, 2011 10:48:24 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure those pictures are from the set that sold on Ebay for over $2,000 recently.
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habrofan83
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Post by habrofan83 on Mar 7, 2011 11:08:16 GMT -5
probably mate, i though something was fishy when he was taking ages to answer my email, but thinking of it now, he might have been in communication with other buyers trying to rip them off aswell
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 11:15:07 GMT -5
unbelievable, thanks for letting everyone know, im so glad you didnt get caught out. i hate things like this, iv got a good mind to write to ann robinson. do it, please do it, id love to see hasbro on watchdog. Ive seen them on carbooty, but watchdog.. thats awesome, if you do that, i will enter mastermind with hasbros being my specialist subject.. lol. O.T - plus karma for sharing this scam info, we did have a thread a while ago which i wanted stickied, it basically had a list of fake/scam ebay and other listings. I dont know why it wasn't stickied or why the thread vanished but it was useful IMO, it helped everyone know of dodgy sellers and scams. I think we should bring it back. how weird, whenever i watch carbooty i always look out for hasbros [or any figs] but have never seen any, and whilst watching mastermind last week i thought to myself ' how good would it be to go on there and do hasbros'. sorry for going off the subject abit. i think we should definately have a thread about any cons or suspicions we might have. i dont want any collector to get ripped off. |
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Post by Mr. Mojo Risin on Mar 7, 2011 12:02:31 GMT -5
yes that was the set from the ebay listing that sold for $ 2076.00 usd all they did was crop out where the wrestling promo was written they even used the same item decription as the ebay listing as well how lame
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Post by rickrudelives on Mar 7, 2011 12:47:33 GMT -5
yes that was the set from the ebay listing that sold for $ 2076.00 usd all they did was crop out where the wrestling promo was written they even used the same item decription as the ebay listing as well how lame i bid on that set that time and these are the pictures i just checked my didnt win box on ebay |
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Post by rickrudelives on Mar 7, 2011 13:01:20 GMT -5
here is the pictures from the ebay listing but i wouldnt think the seller of the ones on ebay has anything to do with this its not really fair me putting up a link to his ebay listing because hes obviously just got his photos copied by the guy trying to scam but just to show that the pictures are the same here it is cgi.EBAY LINK NOT ALLOWED/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=200566214197&si=GFb5pXZD7q6%252BHoVrZRgCdVGnJtg%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEDWX:IT#ht_500wt_1156 |
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Post by wweanimator395 on Mar 7, 2011 13:15:21 GMT -5
do it, please do it, id love to see hasbro on watchdog. Ive seen them on carbooty, but watchdog.. thats awesome, if you do that, i will enter mastermind with hasbros being my specialist subject.. lol. O.T - plus karma for sharing this scam info, we did have a thread a while ago which i wanted stickied, it basically had a list of fake/scam ebay and other listings. I dont know why it wasn't stickied or why the thread vanished but it was useful IMO, it helped everyone know of dodgy sellers and scams. I think we should bring it back. how weird, whenever i watch carbooty i always look out for hasbros [or any figs] but have never seen any, and whilst watching mastermind last week i thought to myself ' how good would it be to go on there and do hasbros'. sorry for going off the subject abit. i think we should definately have a thread about any cons or suspicions we might have. i dont want any collector to get ripped off. Agreed, it sucks for the collector. |
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