Scam listings on ebay

[cropwell]

Facebook is worse for scam adverts. I responded to three last year and the goods that arrived were nothing like advertised. I got my money back on all 3 through PayPal, but not without a fight.

One of the items was a travel guitar and this is what I received :-


The scammer insisted I send it back to China by recorded delivery and this cost £10.85 (which I recovered). It was returned to me as unclaimed a few weeks ago.

The irony is that I never wear a watch nowadays anyway. If I did I would wear one of the good ones I have, not this cheap crap.

So NEVER buy anything from a FACEBOOK AD.

[JasonT]

Under the UKs regulations/distanceselling rules (basically covers online or mail order purchases) returned item only have to go back to the source within the uk from where they were sent. It would be nice it ebay actually understood the law in the countries it operates in. As for Facebook, i have items listed in market place, i guess the advice there has to be buyer beware. check out the profile of the seller, copy and paste their facebook name into the search tab on the top left of the page, match up the avatar/image they have used to make sure its them, click on that name from list - look for the three dots then select the extended profile. Funny how they think a school in a far out country and images of forigen sex workers as friends is going to pass off as a profile. Its like Microsoft phoning me up, really, they know better id give them both verbal barrels. Windows is pants.