Internet purchase - scam?

Lou3000

These boards are great for asking for help and advice.

Crass comments and remarks by people like Apples2 and Oopsadaisy are neither clever nor helpful.

Freddie_Snowbits

Lou3000 wrote: »

These boards are great for asking for help and advice.

Crass comments and remarks by people like Apples2 and Oopsadaisy are neither clever nor helpful.

Oh dear me, good job sometimes I cannot be bothered to even add to the post, but if advert is toooooooooooooooooo good to be true, it is. The answer you were looking for is quite easily given by messers Paddy!

paddyrg wrote: »

Sounds like the Acai berry/Goji Berry/Aloe Vera/Tooth Whitening business model all over. If you haven't had the products you should be covered by the Distance Selling Regulations, don't open them and just reject them if they arrive. Their proof of postage is not your proof of receipt, and you have 7 days from receipt to reject the goods.

If they mess about and don't refund, sue through the small claims court.

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Apples2

Lou3000 wrote: »

Crass comments and remarks by people like Apples2 and Oopsadaisy are neither clever nor helpful.

The issue of whether you received your goods is neither here nor there. That money was going from your account anyway.

Even if you had received your goods and rejected them, the money was still going to come out.

Did you understand that this £96 was coming out 30 days after you ordered? If so, why was it a surprise?
If not, then how would you have avoided it coming out?

The Internet is filled with this type of scam as paddyrg has listed (but only a few).

Being Savvy is not clicking on any old random internet advert (fancy or not) and throwing all your account details into it without fully understanding what you are doing.

Oopsadaisy

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but I met a bloke in the street and he said if I gave him £20 he would send me some diamonds worth £2,500.

So I gave him the money,,,,but I haven't received the diamonds. Have I been scammed??

ps..He lives in Zanzibar [I think, but not sure].