Beware Buying Unopened Nexus 7 Tablets

dcleach

I saw a Nexus 7 32 Gb tablet PC on Gumtree.

Seller said Tablet PC was unopened in the original shrink wrap.

I offered the seller £130.00 for the product which he accepted.

The seller gave me the address to go and pay and collect the item.

When I get to the address to collect the item I realise the seller has given me the number off a building that is a tower block not the number of his flat. I don’t have any flat number.

I ring his mobile number and he appears in the stair well off the flats with a nice new shrink wrapped Nexus 7 Box. I ask to check the product, he tells me there is no need too it is brand new, he tells me he also doesn’t accept £50.00 notes (alarm bells ringing now).

I say I am no longer interested and disappear sharpish.

In my opinion it was obviously a scam and I was savvy enough to see it for that. I just want to make others aware off my experience

My advice is (Unlike me) check the number off the property you are attending is actually one residential property, and not a tower block, communal building. If I had checked on Google Earth I would have seen that. The scam obviously works because you get there and need to telephone the seller for him to appear in the stair well for him to do the deal; the seller says he is in a hurry and on his way out. You get a box of junk and the seller disappears with your money. I should imagine by the time you have unopened the box he will be gone, the reality then hits that you don’t actually have his address..

sillygoose

erm.. glad you didn't get done, but why even show any interest in the 1st place? if you were savvy, common sense tells you some bloke won't have £199 tablets to sell for £130 as that is giving money away!

I really think most people would glance at the advert, have a chuckle, ignore it. Is anything on Gumtree legit?

dcleach

sillygoose wrote: »

erm.. glad you didn't get done, but why even show any interest in the 1st place? if you were savvy, common sense tells you some bloke won't have £199 tablets to sell for £130 as that is giving money away!

I really think most people would glance at the advert, have a chuckle, ignore it. Is anything on Gumtree legit?

I have had some real bargains of Gumtree and Ebay .I have never had any problems before.

And tbh it was not really that much off a ridiculous saving that it would initially set alarm bells ringing,you can pick them up on Ebay second hand for £150.00.

All Seemed legitimate until i arrived at a block of flats.

You live you learn.I just want to make others aware off this scam..

techspec

Beware buying anything unopened in a dodgey street - why just nexus?