View Poll Results: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

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  • Never, I am very careful.

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  • I have lost loads of money on the internets.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Luckily never (touch wood),
    Mostly because I only ever purchase from the major shops (amazon, play etc.) and whenever I venture onto fleabay I always check that paypal is offered and that the feedback is decent.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    A copy of Sin City from ebay. It turned out to be a dodgy asian bootleg but the guy did refund me in the end. He claimed it was real but the chinese (?) writing all over the disc and case gave the game away really.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Overclockers took me for about £36 in postage charges once. Never again.
    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    stupid betond belief.
    You owe it to yourself to click here really.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    scammed once via amazon marketplace. never again.
    Same with me but I did manage to get my money back after a month or so though, got to hate the hassle.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    Overclockers took me for about £36 in postage charges once. Never again.
    oh, yeah, ditto

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    some dodgy bugger on here flogged me a fake sony memory card

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    I've had 2 wireless cctv cameras sent from ebay that didnt work, got 100% back though so no...

    It's 4.98*

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    I bought a fake powerball off eBay, but the seller did give me a refund so I only lost out on postage

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    I've never been scammed per se, although I've had a couple of items which were not quite as good as I thought they would be, and too much hassle/cost to return. Only small value, though, for anything of large value I'd have made the effort!

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Poor finlay666, the only one that has been truly ripped big time

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Betting in an online casino that conveniently 'crashed' a couple of times. Luckily, onlu had a few £s in the room when it did.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Quote Originally Posted by JK Ferret View Post
    Betting in an online casino that conveniently 'crashed' a couple of times. Luckily, onlu had a few £s in the room when it did.
    haha, you sound like an addicted gambler making excuses...

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    No seriously, it did.

    I never made any excuses for the ks that I've lost gambling.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Ive had the "awesome shop" (hah) that is Scan take me for a ride on a faulty motherboard which still doesnt work and is not sitting in the cellar after i paid about 40 pound total sending to scan twice and also a stupidly expensive tested as not faulty fine so id consider that a big hustle maybe just me.

    But tbh all company's should work like Ebuyer sending anything back ring up arrange pickup and city link come pickup and no stupid tested as not faulty stupidity if tested not faulty it is sent back simple as.

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    oh and overclocker tried to scam me on here but having a brother in law detective does make threatening slightly effective so i got my money back (kept details if he rips anyone else off).

    oh just read up looks like thats 4 of us then

    am i only one that made him give me postage costs as well as my money back

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    Re: Have you ever been hustled on the internets?

    Scammed once via ebay. Lots of people in the same scam.
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