Just booked a one way flight but got the airports the wrong way round. Son of B... I'm checking the amendment/cancellation small print at the moment...
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Just booked a one way flight but got the airports the wrong way round. Son of B... I'm checking the amendment/cancellation small print at the moment...
:lol: if they got it the wrong way round you should be good for a refund?
mine was my first ebay purchase...only 50 quid scammed out of me, but the bloke took a lot of people for a lot of money on the same day...about 40-50 grand i counted. he is now in prison fellating mr big.
I don't buy online but Jon does, and he ordered a Fairmans Tee and a CKY Tee from Fairmans skateshop in West Chester and the Tee's were like £10 each but what he didn't notice was they charged him £50 for postage and packing, apparently they send overseas parcels by 'signed fo'r delivery :p hehe though he was well chuffed with he tee's when they turned up, very very good quality
On a forum some cockroach scammed me outta 90 quid :(
Was Kuston, did 2 deals on there, ripped off on both, **********s
I lost £35 on ebay.com when I bought some Initial D manga books. I paid $60 for 7 volumes and never received any of them :(. Paypal didnt give me the money back either as the 60 day period had expired while I was waiting for them.
I bought a copy of Capcom vs. SNK2 for the Dreamcast, a Jap only game, from Ebay. When it turned up it was a blatant pirate copy. The little scamp that ripped me for it only lived in Grays, I was tempted to drive the 20 miles up there and brick every window in his house- in the end I put it down to experience. So, £14 is the most I've ever lost. As a deeply tight man, it still pains me:(.
bought a MP3 capable CD player from Simply. Can't remember how much it was, but it was really really crap. Really big and plastic, you could also hear the motor spinning and seeking through the headphones.
never used it. but still have it.
It was me and my big fingers that put the airports the wrong way round ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
£25 to change the booking (not too bad) +the difference in the cost of the flight the other way round (50% more!!)
That will teach me to rush a last minute booking. Anyway I fly today, bye bye England.
Bought a pair of Evisu jeans on eBay, £50, when they arrived I realised they were fake, as I have 2 pairs of real ones. The seller promosied me they were 100% geniune, yeah right.
It was the first and last time I bought clothing on eBay!
For me it was ebay, ordered medal of honour AA + spearhead, MOHAA turned up genuine but the expansion pack was a pirate version,
Downloading warez (probably off bit torrent since I rekon he was about 15) is bad enough, but selling it is really stupid... He got reported to FACT, EA, Ebay and paypal - and after that I went on a spree of looking though ebay for other obvious fakes, dvds are the easiest, and reported the sellers to the various copywrite holders (and always fact+ea)
What can I say, it was a slow day at work and they deseve everyhting they get, revenge is sweet :)
Well, lost £12 on a *BRAND NEW* Warioware on Ebay.. turns out to be a pirated version as well..
My advice, never EVER trust anything from Asia, although I'm asian.. their trading habits are a piss.. mind my language.. I'm still pretty furious about it..
Most expensive mistake... chatting up a girl who lived miles and I mean miles away and then going out with her for 6+ months.
40 quid a week the train tickets cost me lol
An online porn subscription on my credit card. I didn't know I'd done it for months (I was drunk when I opened the account!) and it cost me a fortune! That was a few years ago now.....
How much did it cost you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Big RICHARD
Quote:
Originally Posted by DeludedGuy
About £150 in the end. It was an American company. I rang them and told them that it had been unauthorised use of my card so they would cancel straight away. I think it was a 12 month contract! :embarrassed:
£10 on these forums for a pc game that never turned up :( he got some other people too... *sigh* here
I've never been scammed but once i bought a hair drier that was used about once....cost about £25 IIRC
Ebay scammed by someone who sold me an ipod.
Trust me neither ebay nor paypal are much use. Was a while ago but it was a pretty steep £200
so the ebay paypal saftey scheme to reimburse peeps who got scammed is just all talk?
no, but yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackvdbuk
They
"can't recover funds from xxxx account"
or you waited too long.
Myself i think you should allow 14 days when returning some RAM because its dud. Paypal disagree.
Evening all,
I've never personally been scammed online i dont think. My brother got done with a corker on Ebay. Paid £250 for a phone which didnt show up.
My mate ebay scammed....
eBay Faker about some Lee Evans XXL Tour last year... nearly scammed out of £400 :|
Luckily PayPal saw the ebay memebr as a faker and sent him back the money....
£10 for a Ducti wallet
Its not for alot of money, but the reason i lost out in the end was because I was honest...
There was a raffle for someones Skyline, 20 quid a ticket so I bought one for the hell of it. It took months for the draw to take place and once it did, it appeared that he had already sold the car to someone on ebay and suprise suprise they won the raffle too...
Here's the thing though, the scammer started refunding everyone who requested it. I did and he put 40 quid to my paypal account. I refused it and sent him a mail saying I was only due 20 quid...he said thanks alot for your honesty, Ill sort your money out... last I heard >:/
lost 75 squids once on ebay, I think the guy built up loadsa good reasonably high value feedback (500+ @100%) just to do a runner with really low priced buy it now items. . .
then I lost 180, again on ebay, selling a p910i where paypal identified the money used to pay for the phone as fraud - which was a bit late considering the phone had already been sent . . .
i hear alot of ppl sayin that now ppl say to paypal that the items never turned up, incorrectly advertised or broken and paypal immediately take the money back from u whether or not that was true
one url: http://overclockers.co.uk man, what a headache that was
Got blootered the Friday before Christmas and couldn't even remember getting home. Got up the next morning and had a wander down town where I saw a Roboraptor on offer at Argos. I bought it on the spur of the moment for my little lad as a last minute chrissmas pressie. Got it home and was well pleased until my missus went ballistic.
Turns out that when I'd come home pished I'd gone on the net and bought one from Play for his birthday which is a few days after Christmas...
touch wood i havnt had any big mistakes BUT ive just ordered one of the B grade SATA drives from overclockers so we'll have to see. Although, it was only £20 so wouldnt be to bothered
£10,000 on a Thai bride that I never saw.
Just kidding! Erm... I can't say I've ever been scammed or bought something really crap online.
he he he you winQuote:
Originally Posted by pr0p4g4nd4
Only mistake I've made is spending £170 on a HiMD from amazon, of which has recently died (out of 12 month warranty) and so is gonna cost me £55 to get Sony's technician's to look at it.... (Just to take a few screws out and check the boards, NOT REPAIR!!!)
You could get about 55 MD players off ebay for that price these days :p
Not HiMD ones though, these are ones that use 1GB disc (and can fit 400*4 minute songs on one for the price of £5 per disc) and not the old styled ones which can only play 80 minutes of music (or 160 minutes on long play...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Swafe
:undecided
Got scammed on Ebay for a "brand new, sealed, Windows XP Home" which I paid for (£60)but it never showed up. It was part of one of those massive scams that were going on about 3 years ago. I was relatively lucky - the same criminals ripped off many people for non-existent laptops to the tune of £1000 - £1500 apiece, then scarpered to USA. I got my money back from Ebay (less £15 admin) about 3 months later.
Since then I only pay for stuff on Ebay using Paypal and I never buy anything costing over £100. On the only other occasion when an item never arrived I got my money back very promptly from Paypal.
I bought a hard drive from ebay to someone who never sent it, then one day out of the blue it turned up on my doormat in bits. Never did get the money back..
My solution, never use ebay again!