Purchased fake goods on ebay

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  • theonlywayisup
    theonlywayisup Posts: 16,031 Forumite
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    Brywalker wrote: »
    What a truly ridiculous sweeping statement.

    Post building?
  • forgotmyname
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    sndavid wrote: »
    Most of the eBay products are cheaply bought from AliExpress - a Chines shopping website... the quality score is really very bad, no doubt about it.

    Odd that i have bought LOTS of stuff from China and only the cheap stuff is cheap.

    I have bought grey items where the same factory are selling them out the back door minus labels and serial numbers.
    Preventing this is difficult. The genuine companies website will now ask for a serial number before allowing access to the updated software.
    Quality is exactly the same as the UK sourced item, but only £40 for a product thats over £100 normally.

    Branded items for a fraction of their prices that are normally only sold in certain shops are most likely fake.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • Brywalker
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    theonlywayisup wrote: »
    Post building?

    What is that supposed to mean?
  • soolin
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    Brywalker wrote: »
    What is that supposed to mean?

    There is an advantage to registering posts on the forum when you fist join, the posts are usually a little odd and tend not to be thought through, just post building in order to come back later and leave links to spam.
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  • Brywalker
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    soolin wrote: »
    There is an advantage to registering posts on the forum when you fist join, the posts are usually a little odd and tend not to be thought through, just post building in order to come back later and leave links to spam.

    Aaah. Excuse my ignorance.
  • theonlywayisup
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    Brywalker wrote: »
    What is that supposed to mean?

    As per the post above.

    New posters need X amount of posts before they can link to things. It's a modus operandi of some that they post odd comments which mean nothing to build up their count, and then spam the living daylights out of the forum.
  • Tallymanjohn
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    I seem to remember there was an item on fake headphones on BBC's 'Fake Britain' last week (Sept 6th), so it's not a rare occurrence.
  • dacouch
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    Thanks for your assistance.

    Ebay have closed the account and want the items returned.

    What concerns me is the address ebay have given for the label is just around the corner from my house and is serviced rental rooms for Students. I have a friend who works in a similar place and gave the address he has given to confirm he lives their and they have confirmed that they moved out a couple of years ago and the room is currently empty awaiting a new tenant for the new university term.

    What will happen when I send the package by tracked postage and the student halls refuse to accept it. Will I still get my refund?
  • 19lottie82
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    Yes, you will. As long as there is an attempt at delivery then you will get your refund, it doesn't need to be actually delivered.
  • mrcol1000
    mrcol1000 Posts: 4,791 Forumite
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    I have had items returned to me while I have been away. They have gone to the sorting office as no-one is home. Ebay have then e-mailed me saying it has been delivered and I need to refund in a set time or they will.

    So I'd not worry. They might have not updated their address or been worried about customers visiting them.
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