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27th January 2014, 03:49 PM
Trent

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Originally Posted by Sky Shadow

What's wrong with living in Casino? 10,000 people live there.

I have relatives there. I'm sure they would be disappointed to find out they're living in a fake town created purely to assist with eBay scams :p
27th January 2014, 05:08 PM
griffin

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Originally Posted by Hursticon

That's what I'd considered too, I can't find anything about it on the Transformers Museum site though. :confused:

That's an amazing site. That guy has done a LOT of work. I just spent the last couple hours mesmerised by all the stuff archived there, and had to force myself away. :o

I wonder why I'd never seen that site before.
27th January 2014, 05:14 PM
Hursticon

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Originally Posted by griffin

That's an amazing site. That guy has done a LOT of work. I just spent the last couple hours mesmerised by all the stuff archived there, and had to force myself away. :o

Too right he has and it is very hard to not become lost in its archives for hours huh? ;):p

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I wonder why I'd never seen that site before.

Really? :eek: - That is quite surprising as 5FDP has referred me to it a couple of times, I was under the impression most of you older/longer-term blokes had been using it for ages! :o:D
27th January 2014, 06:13 PM
Sky Shadow

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Originally Posted by Trent

I have relatives there. I'm sure they would be disappointed to find out they're living in a fake town created purely to assist with eBay scams :p

LOL. :D
28th January 2014, 09:08 AM
5FDP

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Originally Posted by Hursticon

Really? :eek: - That is quite surprising as 5FDP has referred me to it a couple of times, I was under the impression most of you older/longer-term blokes had been using it for ages! :o:D

Was it really necessary to use the word 'older' :(

jk
28th January 2014, 10:00 AM
UltraMarginal

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Originally Posted by Hursticon

Can anyone provided any information or history regarding this? - Is it a Drink Bottle, or a Bubblebath Container? :confused:

It kind of looks more like a bubble bath container to me, especially with the design of the lid.

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Originally Posted by 5FDP

Was it really necessary to use the word 'older' :(

jk

facts are facts:D unfortunately I've been tarred with the same brush.:(:cool:

Older is another word for "Classic"
30th January 2014, 12:50 AM
neeno

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Originally Posted by UltraMac

2 sellers on ebay selling a heap of sought transformers.. mp thundercraker, skywarp, tiger tracks, smokescreen, all tfc 3rd part combiners, make toy stuff, igear cone heads.. heaps of stuff!!! they ran the auctions for 3-4 days refreshing and adding a few more each cycle.. even got a second chance offer which i didn't accept.

so basically they sent santa hats and not the won items. I just had a gut feeling it was to good to be true.. winning a full set of tfc Hercules for $130 on bid. feed back on the seller at first was not bad.. but it went up a bit more and came crashing down 72 negative feedback in a little over a week.. they are no longer on ebay.. both have closed their accounts. being that all parcels have the same return address from the 2 different seller just hightens the fact it was a scam.

Yes i should get my money back my loving girlfriend has ordered smokescreen from bbts.. i ordered prowl from chimungmung... would of been nice to get the rest of the seekers... oh well we live and learn:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

been there done that mate, we have talked about this scammer ni_jay1988 and lglg_zhao89 before. spent $800+ but all refunded and don't have to return the hats.
I still don't get it, why bother scamming people when buyers can claim and get the money back? the tracking numbers trick just won't work that well.
30th January 2014, 07:50 PM
canofwhoopass_87

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Originally Posted by neeno

I still don't get it, why bother scamming people when buyers can claim and get the money back? the tracking numbers trick just won't work that well.

Because it's not the scammers that have to refund the money. It's ebay / paypal that have to pay out the unfortunate buyer. They keep the money and bail

Outside of ebay though, paypal protection is limited and there's no guarantee you'll get your money back in the event of a mishap
30th January 2014, 08:54 PM
Iriorne

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Originally Posted by canofwhoopass_87

Because it's not the scammers that have to refund the money. It's ebay / paypal that have to pay out the unfortunate buyer.

Yep. If the seller has cleaned out the money from their PayPal account and any linked credit cards or bank accounts, there's not much that can be done to recover the money.
30th January 2014, 10:37 PM
Dangermot

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Originally Posted by canofwhoopass_87

Because it's not the scammers that have to refund the money. It's ebay / paypal that have to pay out the unfortunate buyer.

Have to disagree with you there. I purchased from one of those eBay sellers (ni_jay1988) and as soon as I left negative feedback the SELLER refunded my money not Paypal.