Amazon item from Littlewoods-very odd (very.co.uk)

tinkerbell28

The email looks like it has been through google translate.

Secondly it sounds VERY like phished account or fraud to me. You are asking yourself, why would someone pay more for a brand new laptop then send it to you at a loss? Exactly why would they?

You know this doesn't sound right. So be very careful.

If it is a phished account. A person sells on top goods for knock down prices, then use hacked credit accounts to send them on. They have the "clean" money from having sold it elsewhere.

So personally, I'd hang onto it, just incase the account holder finds out what has happened, if it indeed has and reports the fraud. Littlewoods will say it is ok if it is a phished account. It will be like the account holder has authorised it.....until they then notice and report it. The police can reclaim the goods, (you know something is up, it is pretty obvious) so I wouldn't "handle" it any way for a while, I'd wait, or send it back, you'll have Amazon a+z protection. You've raised your concerns, so I'd email littlweoods again, stating you have your doubts over the order and why. Protect yourself. They could easily contact the "buyer" by phone or letter and verify the purchase.

tattycath

Maybe the seller had reward points/money to buy it with. If they did have this and did not want anything from the catalogue, they could have bought something and sold it to get the money instead of being tied into making a purchase for themselves that they did not want.

arbroath_lass

It's likely cheaper than a payday type loan. Seller gets £388 now and has a year to repay £529.

bagginslover

Tattycath, that's a nice thought, and I'd go along with it if it weren't for the fact that they only ordered it yesterday (confirmed with 2 people at Littlewoods), despite having sent shipping notices on the 27th of July, from
2 totally separate shipping companies, then saying they'd recalled it (which I'm pretty sure is impossible to do, it certainly is with RM, I've tried in the past).

Tinkerbell28, thank you! I was starting to wonder if I was reading too far into things, I'm glad it's not just me that think its seems wrong. Littlewoods are supposed to be trying to contact the account holder, then phoning us back, so we'll see what comes of that. If its phished, they'll have a shock!

bagginslover

arbroath_lass wrote: »

It's likely cheaper than a payday type loan. Seller gets £388 now and has a year to repay £529.

A year to repay nearly £900 with the interest!

tinkerbell28

The point people seem to be missing. Is the seller is based in Italy. An original Italian tracking number and an email which has very clearly been through google translate.

I'm pretty sure littlewoods don't ship to Italy nor can you have an account......

You can't even have an account with the co.uk arms of the company of you live in Ireland, that's another entity again.

Sounds very much like a hacked, phished account to me. I hope I'm wrong.

visidigi

I'm with you, hacked account or stolen credit card information.

Italian orderer gets £338 from amazon, little woods are out of pocket..

arbroath_lass

bagginslover wrote: »

A year to repay nearly £900 with the interest!

Not if you pay before the year is up. Buy Now Pay Later from Littlewoods is interest free for twelve months. You only get charged the interest if you haven't paid by then.

I've seen it "advised" before when people are desperate for cash.

ETA : Anyway I'm probably wrong as, together with the delivery etc, it does seem rather odd.

bagginslover

I have googled the sellers account name (which I now don't mind sharing! One Stop Business Solutions (UK) Ltd.) and found 2 listings with companies house, both with the same founding director, both dissolved. A third listing has them with a new director, registered in June of this year.

earthstorm

bagginslover wrote: »

then saying they'd recalled it (which I'm pretty sure is impossible to do, it certainly is with RM, I've tried in the past).

With RM yes, but not impossible with couriers (parcelforce/fedex etc.)

Many moons ago i sold computers and consumables. I got order for a PC, all seems legit, payment cleared, address and addressee checked out ( the buyer was in spain) so item was shipped via a local courier who used UPS. sent items to spain/france before and no issues. The Day after sending this i got call from my payment provider that the payment was from a stolen card and they have had to refund the money. I immediately called the courier, who told me it was already with UPS but they would try and have the item returned. the courier called me back and stated that it had not reached their spanish hub so i was in luck as they would stop it at spain and then return it to me, but i would have to pay courier charges for its return. so good the scammer would not get the item, but i had twice the courier fees and a £200 computer to pay for. as my supplier would not take the PC back. So it is possible to recall, but you would have to cover the returned charges