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“Green Giant” Ebay Con Artists part 4 – fastmemoryman

Buzz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:26:01 +0000

Name and shame time!

Remember this blog here?

Well it seems our “friend” at ebay has had 458 negative feedback this month alone, infact just google fastmemoryman.

Ebay’s reply came back as they can basically do nothing … beware this seller and avoid at all costs.

Green Giant – eBay Con artists part 3

Buzz — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:16:02 +0000

Well lets start with the good news, the compact flash memory has arrived …

Now for the bad, following on from my last blog regarding this here the package arrived allright, but with all of £0.52 worth of royal mail postage, not recorded, not special delivery, no insurance, nothing £16 charge for £0.52 in postage … even with the packaging this no where near amounts to £16 worth of postage.

This is an utter JOKE, I am processing the photos for upload, the originals ar 5MP so a little to big for a blog

I have put in a complaint with ebay, citing this as using their postage system to “Extort” additional money.

Hopefully they will also see it this way, that does mean I can not “name and shame” at the moment, as it will not help my case.

Check back soon for the photos of the “£16″ postage and packing …

Green Giant – eBay Con artists part 2

Buzz — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:34:17 +0000

So I finally got a response …

“Hello,

Thanks for asking about shipping. All shipping and handling costs are per item and as advertised on eBay. We don’t negotiate on shipping at all. Please refer to the shipping costs per item mentioned clearly at the bottom of all eBay item. Insurance per item is also not negotiable but is optional. Please note that shipping consists of various things such as packaging, handling, insurance, bar-coding, automation and 3rd party services from the Insurance co. and electronic postage processing with includes postage and automatic notification.“

Somehow I realy do not see that I am going to get £16 worth of postage from £3.96 worth of items …

Beware the eBay small print, I am quite annoyed on this realy didn’t expect this from a UK seller.

Green Giant – eBay Con artists

Buzz — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:59:12 +0000

So I got my “adjusted” postage … the seller has increased the
combined postage to £64 and then applied a £48 discount, yeh you
guessed it resulting in the same £16 (£4 per card) postage cost …

I’ve
seen some blatant attempts to con people before, but just … wow …
I’m giving the selling on ebay time to correct this … otherwise I’m
going to name and shame.

Green Giant – Moving on

Buzz — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:46:03 +0000

Today I have managed to find a bargain, and have ordered 4 x 1GB compact flash cards to run the nodes. (£3.96) I’m just having to negotiate postage at the moment … as £4 per card is a bit excessive!

So provided I can get combined postage current project cost is at £7.96 … Now I need to find some pico / mini itx bargains.