If the price on an item is so low that you think "there's no way they could sell me that for that price", you should assume that you are right, and they aren't actually going to send you something for that price. The other half of the transaction (taking your money, even it it's "only" a hundred bucks or something), I'm sure they're world class at, however.
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Fake or for real?
- Thread starter Lowendchamp
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I've got a 10000 sq/ft mansion in Beverly Hills that I'll sell you for $1500. Let me know if your interested.
A "trick" these jagoffs sometimes use is that they send you something - some POS that isn't worth $10 let alone $100 and then they try to make you pay for return shipping to get a refund - and shipping to China is more than what the item is worth. So, you have to work with PayPal or your credit card company to get a refund - most of the time that works, sometimes it doesn't, but it all takes time and energy.
Nothing good can come from this. It's 100% a scam that will cost you money and/or time. It done with basses, guitars, drums, shirts, electronics, shoes, etc.
Nothing good can come from this. It's 100% a scam that will cost you money and/or time. It done with basses, guitars, drums, shirts, electronics, shoes, etc.
Go ahead.
Buy It.
Be sure and let us know what happens.
Buy It.
Be sure and let us know what happens.
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Seriously, you've probably been phished if you even clicked on the link. Change passwords at the least.
The same scammers post ads on Instagram every few days, they get reported and taken down, then pop up a little later under a different name.
total scam.
total scam.
The Chinese factories are very straightforward. Buy some modest quantity, somewhere around 10 units, and they'll put any markings on there you want, for free. And if those markings just happen to belong to somebody else, well, that's on the buyer who specified them, not on the manufacturer (or at least, that's how they figure it in the mysterious Orient). I first noticed this with Yanagisawa saxophones for $279 - on Amazon. Real Yanagisawas are $8000+ horns. The "Yanagisawa" markings were very slightly blurred in the photos, as if that somehow made it less of a legal liability. I later saw some high-end Yamahas and Selmers at similar prices but with the markings not blurred at all. Sometimes they'll use photos of the real thing - apparently in China that counts as "close enough".
In any case, fake fake fake.
The honest Chinese instruments are usually copies of established models, either fairly faithful copies or, well, not so faithful. But the won't have somebody else's name on them. But the comedy never stops, as they'll almost invariably say "handmade" and "professional" in the ad copy, which is, of course, a bit of a stretch.
In any case, fake fake fake.
The honest Chinese instruments are usually copies of established models, either fairly faithful copies or, well, not so faithful. But the won't have somebody else's name on them. But the comedy never stops, as they'll almost invariably say "handmade" and "professional" in the ad copy, which is, of course, a bit of a stretch.
Doesn't mean much. I have a couple of web sites which - going by the info in WhoIs - imaginatively locate me in Reykjavik. This seems to satisfy ICANN regulations as long as I can be contacted. Name hosts do this by assigning private mail boxes. A few years ago this was an optional service but now they seem to do it by default.
On questionable websites like that, I always check the FAQ a customer service/returns pages, if they exist. Not so much for what they say, but for how they say it. Usually, it's quite entertaining.
And no, I'm not buying anything from them.
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Ya gotta think that the materials alone would cost that much... then there's the labor (regardless of the source), packaging, shipping .... the greed and corruption. Theres no way they can have a price like that and have an actual product delivered. Its all scam.
I stupidly bought a small item from.Aliexpress when they first surfaced, my $12 simply vanished. It may be different now, as a number of TB'ers have had actual basses delivered, but early on it really was a Wild West operation. After literally 20 attempts at emailing "Customer Service", notify my credit card company, etc, i just kinda wrote it off. $12, big whup, but it pissed me off. China just does not give a flying f### who their businesses burn. In moral terms, its a very short step from being willing to flout copyright to hosing the customer with the various bait and switch scams Aliexpress and others perfected. Now they are considered " legit", even though their site is full of blatant counterfeits. This one may be "legit" too, but you have to ask tourself what kind of working conditions and pay to some poor sap in China would be required to hit those price points. Meh.
There’s always a sucker out there who thinks they can get something for nothing.
It's a scam!
I got fooled.
Tried to buy this: Link Removed
They did take the money for the product & shipping, but no confirmation email or anything. I wrote to them, nothing, started suspecting it was a scam only then (stooooopid me) so reached out to my bank to try & report that & cancel payment.. am still awaiting their reply .
I got fooled.
Tried to buy this: Link Removed
They did take the money for the product & shipping, but no confirmation email or anything. I wrote to them, nothing, started suspecting it was a scam only then (stooooopid me) so reached out to my bank to try & report that & cancel payment.. am still awaiting their reply .
The answer is simple really... You get what you pay for, so if you pay less than one tenth the price of a real product you are not getting a real product.
