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puma guy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:16 pm I've saw this ad on FB - this one purports to be a vendor from California. I've seen the same hype from sellers as far away a Germany with the same spiel. Leupold scopes like the one in the link 93 bucks!
https://www.aliezahron.com/Leupold-VX-5 ... 70832.html


Here's the link from FB to the vendor.

https://www.aliezahron.com/?utm_source= ... EDK58fbbYk

In the event they ship a scope it will probably be a Chinese knockoff.
Facebook will shutdown any opinion they disagree with but will allow what I consider fake scammers to advertise and appeal to millions. I had a friend who bought a 10" DeWalt Table Saw for $69 free shipping. Of course it never came and he was out the money and FB offered no recourse or help to track down the seller.
Stay away, far,far away!

puma guy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:16 pm ...this one purports to be a vendor from California...

philip964 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:18 pm Thanks for the warning.

eBay offers refund if your scammed.

I saw an auction ending in 2 minutes, an original Japanese Katana. Bid was still at .99 cent starting point. $100 shipping from Hong Kong.

I quickly bid the 99 cents with 20 seconds to spare. I won. Sent the payment. Breathlessly waited for my World War 2 antique Katana.

Never arrived.

Looked at EBay guaranteed refund fine print. No refund on shipping. Only refund on item price.

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:46 am However, I do NOT buy anything where the shipping costs more than the item price, or even a large fraction of the item price.

AndyC1911 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 11:04 am

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:46 am However, I do NOT buy anything where the shipping costs more than the item price, or even a large fraction of the item price.

Great tip.

As for me, I ordered some lobster via a FB ad - the price was good, but not so good as to make me suspicious (regardless, I did check and they had a long-standing domain-name and payment was via Paypal) so I pulled the trigger.

Of course, 3 days later and still no tracking details so I emailed them - heard nothing back and a day later disputed it with PayPal.

These guys fed Paypal a line (from a 163.com email-address ie. Chinese), showing them a UPS tracking-number as having been delivered to Garland - hmmm. I phoned UPS and they confirmed that the tracking-number had nothing to do with my name or address, and the sender was Amazon - double hmm.

I then phoned Amazon and they confirmed, in writing, that the item/tracking-number had nothing to do with me (makes one wonder how these guys got that tracking number; I have some ideas) - so I sent all the evidence I'd gathered to Paypal who refunded me promptly.

Still, 2 days later that same ad was still on FB and it's dismaying that the big guys such as eBay, Amazon, FB, etc really don't care enough to weed out bad sellers (money talks, I guess) - my impression is that most of the big scammers are from China. Anyway, I'm done buying anything from ads any more - I've even seen ads claiming to be Guitar Center but the link ultimately goes elsewhere.