My thoughts exactly.
Certainly sounds too good to be true. I've seen new sellers practically give stuff away in order to get five star DSRs and qualify for eBay's power seller program but, in this case I agree; nine bucks for a SR-5 and a R5-A3 just screams scam. And a pretty stupid one at that -- even if the guy actually manages to spend the money before Paypal catches on and freezes the account (and they're not really shy about that either), he's still likely to face federal charges.
I've had the R5-A3 on my whishlist since it came out. I seriously doubt I'll ever get it but at $9, oh well, I'll give it a shot.
What the heck. I don't have one of these yet and it looks like a XP-G R5 from the pictures. So I bought one. I know my chances of losing my money are greater than 50%. Not sure how this will work out if the guy sends something completely different because I'm sure not going to throw more money away sending the thing back.
Paypal shows the payment status as Unclaimed. Does that mean this guy doesn't even have an account yet? The payment just goes to an e-mail address.
I contacted one of the many sellers that sell those 800 lumen "skyrays" and told me it is a q5.
The best thing is if we contact other ebay sellers that are sellling the same products and tell them, maybe they will reduce their prices?
It's far to close to Christmas , this seller can blame the post if people do not get their lights, also gives him more time to scam if he is a scammer
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAUTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I purchased an R5A3 and is says " payment status as Unclaimed" and "vendor not registered" SO I CANCELLED IT
I'll mark my calendar to file a dispute in 30 days. That gives them another 15 days I think. At that point you escalate to a claim and get your money back. There's no reason the guy can't get it to me in 45 days.
I wonder if this guy had 2 of these, put up the ad, and went to bed. Next morning he wakes up and he's sold 300 of them.
It's suprising that eBay would even let a seller post something and set up a store without an activated PayPal account.
Here's the original CyberPort888 ad they ripped off:
http://cgi.ebay.com/CREE-Led-800-Lm-Rechargeable-Flashlight-18650-Torch-SR5-/300492276862
They charge about the same price, but add $28 for shipping.
did anyone even try contacting him first?
thats my first step with new sellers.
send him an email. no response, its a scam. simple as that.
but if someone gets a response. im in for a few!
Well done for volunteering
sigh... u guys are friggen rediculous lol
We know who to blame if it all goes wrong?
I'm not going to name anyone
Budgeteer
"The user you are contacting is registered on another eBay site and may speak a different language. Your message will be sent exactly as typed below"
haha funny
Haha!
Well, you can't kill the messenger for bad news. Anyway i checked my paypal status and it was indeed unclaimed playpal account. I decided to cancel my transaction and contact the seller! Maybe ill get the flashlights eventually if all goes well with any feedback. Before anyone reaches for a firearm i would advise caution since many pointed out that is probably a scam.
If anyone would be upset with me for exposing a possibly good deal that turns out a scam i suggest to ignore the ebay link.
Thanks for sharing the option to cancel paypal transactions. I didn't know it was possible to do so. I'm new to paypal.
what you talking about. kings kill messengers all the time!
If someone wants to write a simple guide how to not get scammed on ebay ill be interested to read it. :)
They used to. :)
I did the same thing. I believe we're still committed to buy the item if he will accept payment though. We'll see what he says.
I don't think there is much to it. As long as you pay through eBay and PayPal, you are protected. But with an auction you have to provide the payment before the shipper has to send the item. If the item isn't as described, you get your money back. However this ad does say that return shipping is your responsibility. So if they just send you a rock, then you have pay to send the rock back in order to get your money back. Even if the seller doesn't pay you back, eBay will as long as you follow their rules.
I had a bid go bad once for some Energizer lithium batteries in North Carolina (just one state away so I though it would go pretty well) and the guy didn't send the batteries and didn't respond to e-mails. Eventually I got my money back, but I think eBay or PayPal wound up paying, not the unscrupulous seller. That's part of what the eBay fees go towards though.
I will pass up this one not only because I already have an UF R5 and a TF R5-A3 but I doubt it's real.
There was a report a few months ago about people getting an empty iphone packaging after bidding on "iphone xG xxGB Original Verpackung" on german ebay. The picture showed the phone with the packaging but the text referred to the packaging only, although purposely easily misleading. So they paid about 200 Euros for an empty box.
I can't see any names of the lights that are actually sold in the descriptions, so I will be quite surprised if they really sell the ones displayed (could be just "example pictures", so you get an idea what a flashlight looks like in general).
Budgeteer I'm only joking about blaming you !
Thanks for informing about the good deal