eBay MH20 $22.99 - Discussion thread

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Ive played the Chinese “to good to be true” game at ebay dozens of times for many years. Its probably 1 in 12-15 that come through from Chinese purchases while the rest are scams. But I always get a refund when the product doesn’t show up. IMO, if you can afford to float the money for up to 60 days (usually far less), then go ahead and gamble. Paypal protects us. As far as paypals business model is concerned, they simply dont care about the thousands of Chinese scams that show up on their site. A PP supervisor told me that Chinese originating accounts are by far the most notorious for these types of scams, but Ebay makes obscenely massive profits through their customer base to offset the bad transactions. In other words, ebay rewards chinese scam artists, so they will always be present unless ebay changes their policies

While Im sure Im contributing to someones chinese new year beer drinking fund, I bought a few lights to see if they arrive. If not… oh well! I’ll file my PP dispute and retrieve my money. Of course I already know this is another scam for all the reasons already mentioned. If ebay doesnt care, then either do I. :smiley:

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Paypal has refunded me in full just hours ago.

Dispute Closed: Case # PP-004-567-278-723
April 4, 2016

39

They might have sent you a small rubber frog or other worthless trinket. Ah well, best of luck to you and the rest of us. :bigsmile:

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:smiley: :smiley: So PP is already providing refunds for the chinese scam account but has done nothing to stop them from continuing to sell.

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I already told Ebay that the listing is back, and at a higher price.

42

Ordered. Let’s see what happens

43

Wow, they closed the case on April 4, 2016. How’d they do that … with a time machine? :wink:

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Haha, yes…with a time machine, because in my country it’s already 18:31 hours of April the 4th, as of this posting.

Dear xxxxxxxxx,

This email confirms that your dispute with yang zhanzhao is now closed.
Disputes are automatically closed if you receive a refund or if it’s been
more than 20 days since the dispute was opened.

If your seller issued you a refund, you can view the status of this refund
at any time. Here’s how:

1. Log in to your PayPal account.
2. Click “History” near the top of the page.
3. Click “Refunds” under More Filters and then click “Details”.

Too fast to be true, I guess!

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:slight_smile:

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Well, looks like the auction is over. Another 50 sold. Probably all of them to members of BLF :bigsmile:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161967402706?\_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Let’s see if eBay remove this listing like they did with the first one.

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I think the buyer canceled the original listing, not eBay. Otherwise, the buyer’s account would have been suspended.

Not sure why the buyer did that, though.

If he made a mistake in pricing the original at $22.99, why bother upping the price to $25.99? Why not, say, $27.99 or 29.99?

Canceling the original listing for $3.00 of incremental profit doesn’t make sense to me.

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Good thing they ran out because I’m dumb enough to roll the dice, since Paypal would back me up. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Haven’t heard anything from the seller. The seller has gotten positive feedback as recently as 2/1.

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Ditto.

Sent two messages to the seller. One yesterday. One today. No response.

51

I suppose there’s nothing to do now but wait and see if I missed a great deal or saved myself some frustration.

52

That’s my problem. I get frustrated when I miss out on a good deal. :wink:

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I`ve ordered 4x Mh20 from the seller on Ebay yesterday. Now it`s time to wait what happens.

Robert

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Last year this also happened close to CNY.

Convenient, huh.

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Another ebay member - 5-44522 - had the same MH20 deal. I knew it was too good to be true. And I still bought one on January 22:D The same day listing was removed and member marked as “No longer a registered user”. It only took a couple of hours for Ebay to refund.

Edit: Just checked. The deal I tried was better. 19.99USD for MH20 + 3400mah battery + belt holster.

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This things are just time wasters.