Anyone bought a laptop from eBay?

Chancey

I won a bid for a sony vaio laptop for 200 euro on ebay but the guy is in china and doen't accept paypal, is this really dodgey?

Karoma

In short: YES.
What payment options does he provide?
Link?

Chancey

It's very similar to this guy.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Brand-New-Fujitsu-Lifebook-B6110D-Notebook-Laptop_W0QQitemZ8779316293QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Chancey

Hey says either Western Alliance or Moneygrab

Chancey

This was his reply when I asked about Paypal:



Dear friend:
Thanks for your payment
Sorry I do not accept the PAYPAL
Because the PAYPAL overlays the area in China is not very vast
So I did not carry out
I accept the western alliance, the bank move
The item has already wrapped up to wait for to send out with meticulous care
Receive you pay perfect item that I will send out to belong to you immediately
What I use is an aviation of EMS especially quick
After item send out arrive on 3-6 days about
Hope our bargain happiness
Your friend

Karoma

Chancey wrote:

It's very similar to this guy.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Brand-New-Fujitsu-Lifebook-B6110D-Notebook-Laptop_W0QQitemZ8779316293QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The aim was to check out the seller's history & details (These still don't make for great character profiling,but would help.)

So, without further details all you get is: It could be geuine, it could be a scam. You have no comeback with money transfers. If it sounds too good to be through. It most likely is.

Karoma

Poor translation aside, the wording of his reply would concern me

"The item has already wrapped up to wait for to send out with meticulous care"

Why is this necessary information? Why was it volunteered so willingly?
(Could just be my paranoia)

And, a problem with PayPal in China... eh... *shrug*
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/general/CNPayPalComparison-outside

My opinion remains the same: dodgy.

Chancey

The guy had 100% record from ten people but I am wary of the fact he might have done that himself. Cheers for your help

Sparky

http://cgi.ebay.ie/HP-COMPAQ-PENTIUM-M-4-LAPTOP-COMBO-DVD-CD-RW-DRIVE_W0QQitemZ8779340840QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i always wondered why their history is hidden, the have something to hide obviously.

also notice how the listing is a HP laptop and it clearly shows a Sony spec, very dodgy to me

Chancey

Yeah there seems to be too many ifs to it to risk paying him. There is way too many of them for sale for it to be true

Karoma

Chancey wrote:

The guy had 100% record from ten people but I am wary of the fact he might have done that himself. Cheers for your help

Easily faked. If that is his history ..and it's hidden - forget it,TBH.
Especially given that he has so many other laptops available for sale & each 1-day listings only...


Forget it.

Chancey

I'll forget it indeed. Cheers mate

Sparky

all of the decent laptops like iMacs, iBooks many small ultra portable laptops ive seen are always on bids for about €200-€300 and are all held by sellers in china with no paypal.

It is too good to be true, and the fact that their history is hidden adds to it.

Any purchases i have made on ebay were via powersellers etc offering paypal either in the UK or US.
And i have spent atleast a half hour researching them, with these chinese sellers you come up against a brick wall.

odonnellcarey

If you check all the "too good to be true" laptop and desktop deals on eBay almost all of them have exactly 10 hidden feedbacks. Don't know about you but that sets my alarm bell ringing. Some also seem to use non-chinese locations which appear to be non-existant towns in Ireland/UK/Us etc.

Bottom line: On the Net, as in real life, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

jimmycrackcorm

As soon as I read the opening post I thought - I bet that the feedback score is 10 and each of the feedback users have a zero score themselves. you'd think that these scammers would at least make a bit of an effort.

Op should play along and keep telling that he ahs sent the payment by paypal and when can he expect his laptop.