Is This Too Good To Be True?

Nat1979

happymummy24-7 wrote: »

Oh my god i have just thought of the bigger picture-he is still trading on the website www.discountBuggies.co.uk how many others are going to be affected,this could be huge,what can we do to get the website shut down,and quickly?

I've been wondering the same thing myself. I'm sure that must be something that Trading Standards can advise on? At present though the Google checkout on the site doesn't work, but if people are them emailing him directly, he will be referring them to pay via PayPal, which is what he did to us (although we didn't pay in the end).

pilchardandpizza

TheRainman wrote: »

Well it turns out he was a scammer after all, Im glad I didnt give him the benefit of the doubt. I was criticised on here for making this judgement on here before the "trial"
Well you can criticise me again as Im about to make another judgement. IN MY OPINION in this instance this paypal guarantee (£150 or £500 or whatever) malarkey on ebay isnt worth a jot, hows that. Now Im really putting my neck on the line here, once again I hope I am proved wrong, I hope you let me know how you get on with paypal (remember www.paypalsucks.com) and I wish you all the best of luck in tracking this fraudster down. Lets see who wins either A. the customers all get fully refunded or B. the scamster gets away with the loot. My money is on B

OOOh you are so positive! You really know how to make a girl feel better! Have you actually bought anything from him? Or can you help anyone who has in a positive way as that's what we need.

Nat1979

well said. nothing like a smug person to help the situation along!

happymummy24-7

ok just sent a long email to watchdog pointing them in the direction of...here!
Come on everyone else get typing,the next show is 13th Oct!
KARMA (with a little help from MSE people power,lol)indeed!

pilchardandpizza

I think we are the only three here! lol

Nat1979

the 3 wise monkeys (although not as wise as we thought!) lol

happymummy24-7

think your right....!
perhaps they are all off emailing the BBC!

soolin

happymummy24-7 wrote: »

Oh my god i have just thought of the bigger picture-he is still trading on the website www.discountBuggies.co.uk how many others are going to be affected,this could be huge,what can we do to get the website shut down,and quickly?

I'm not techie but maybe someone else who is could advise here. I understand that google searches return best match based on keywords so at the moment if you put Discount buggies in a search their website will come quite high. Is is possible to raise concerns on different website enough to make those complaints register higher on Google than the website? Sort of as a warning to people who might be buying direct today?

Also, is it posible to find out what payment methods they are currently accepting and warn the suppliers, so for instance if they are still taking paypal (and I doubt it as it will just add funds to the pot to be claimable by buyers) warn them again..and again..if they take visa then get hold of visa and warn them there is a current scam.

I don't know if any of this is possible but maybe someone else can come up with other ways to close this down?

pilchardandpizza

i've just sent an email to the company who made the website to see if they could do anything to stop it, but I couldn't find anything for google, only a phone number.

Nat1979

i've just found a link where you can fill in details of a scam and report it to consumer direct, trading standards etc

etchttps://secure.consumerdirect.gov.uk/reportascam.aspx.