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Illegally selling money off codes???
acerazor1
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A friend of mine bought a money off voucher code for a UK store from a guy on ebay.
Not the best pound to spend ino and the voucher didnt even work lol
Will a paypal dispute get him his money back??
Also isnt it illegal to sell these online?
I heard this happened in littlewoods and they recalled alot of discounts as the vouchers can only be given out by the store issueing the discount
Should'nt this be reported to the police?
Someone please clear this up for me
Not the best pound to spend ino and the voucher didnt even work lol
Will a paypal dispute get him his money back??
Also isnt it illegal to sell these online?
I heard this happened in littlewoods and they recalled alot of discounts as the vouchers can only be given out by the store issueing the discount
Should'nt this be reported to the police?
Someone please clear this up for me
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I can't see the police being bothered about it - Littlewoods might not like it, but I'm not sure there's a law against it?
Might be worth contacting Littlewoods about it. And your friend can report the item (was it an emailled code? report it item not received) and hopefully obtain a refund.My TV is broken!
Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j0 -
Thanks for help yeh it was emailed to him so ill tell him to start a dispute and say he never recieved it0
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FF is right, you cannot sell intangible items (such as emailed vouchers) on eBay.0
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to comply with ebay rules, people who sell them usually send the item in the post written down on a piece of paper, as well as an email!
Thats how I got the last one I bought!0 -
Why pay for them? There's sites full of voucher codes, if you look through them most of them are out of date though so you can only catch a good one sometimes. I got a code of a site the other week which gave me free delivery (would have been about £6) on a large item from Argos."All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
':eek: Beam me up NOW Scotty!'
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There's a board on here that gives the codes, I've had loads of bargains since I started checking it a few weeks ago.Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0
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Im writing an ebay report on the item, is it in breach of copywrite? As only the store should be distributing these codes?0
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The best way to combat this type of item is not to buy them.0
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I agree but it can't hurt to report them, they do not own the rights to sell these codes and since there available free elsewhere its about time they stopped ripping people offfordfocus-chav-car wrote: »The best way to combat this type of item is not to buy them.0
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