fraud on alibaba

I'd like to advertise you. Don't buy kite materials on alibaba, I've been victim on 2015 . send 1500,00 USD and did not have nothing.
Paid for 3 f-one bandit to kite surf limited be careful to this sellers as:

www.alibaba.com/product-detail/COMPLETE-SET-DISCOUNT-RATE-FOR-2015_50027616252.html?spm=a2700.7724838.38.25.rk30

www.alibaba.com/product-detail/COMPLETE-SET-DISCOUNT-RATE-FOR-2015_50027259578.html?spm=a2700.7724838.38.31.rk30bx

is always the same scammer
he ask to send money in Nigeria by T/T or wester union or Money Graam


Don't do that
Andrea

^yep

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Mark _australia said..
Alibaba is not ebay.


Rather clear I'd have thought....

Still, millions of non-fraudulent transactions take place on it every week..

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dafish said..
Seriously? In this day and age? How could you ever thought that this would be a good deal via western union or money gram. And Nigeria? Come on. You are either taking the piss or you are as green as a new born corn shoot.
Paypal or credit card only. Then you are insured for such idiocy.
If you genuinely did fall for this, sorry to hear about your misfortune. It was a 1500 dollar lesson.

I think the problem is, that people genuinely think the Internet is a living, talking, breathing, trusting (!!), human being!

The only time I send money through the internet is via PayPal or Direct Debit, and ONLY to established shops/businesses like marine shops, kite shops, etc.

Never deal with Alibaba.

I wonder how the effen does Nigeria trade at all with the global economy? Who would trust them?

Why would you think that that was a good idea in the first place? It says items are in Austria and Italy and then he asks you to send money to Nigeria and you did it... You're not going to get much of a pity party here.

But he said he was from the Nigerian royal family

Also know of a farmer dude that was befriended on Facebook this week by someone on another farm, the chat turned saucy and he was asked to send a lewd video of himself. He did, then got held to ransom and told to send money or the video would be posted to his Facebook Wall.

He sent the money, they demanded more, when he refused it was posted to his wall within minutes. I'm amazed people still fall for this ****, let alone don't know they can tweak their Facebook settings so you get notification and an opportunity to review all posts before anything is posted to your timeline and also the chance to review anything you're tagged into.

Actually I was curious , I had heard of many people who had bought without problems. So was a calculate risk. It should be a good deal. So I tried.
This is the trick he uses ( next post i give you scammer's name).
You pay for 3 or more kites but he sends you height or more .
He says is the new company policy for a minimum order or a mistake
So he asks to pay extra items and stop shipping in the middle of the way.
Obviously i did not pay more.
So in the schedule of the shipping company there is my package blocked "full payment required" but I don't know what is in .
Maybe is empty .
He continue to ask me money for extra kites

I just had a poke around on your Alibaba links, geez with the benefit of hindsight that ad stinks of a scam but it's a shame you got burnt of US$1500 to find out the hard way.

While being cheated of your 1500 totally sucks. You should think positively that thats all you lost and you certainly learnt something.
Lots of people have been scammed out of all their life savings.

Put a thread about alibaba recently.

If you buy a kite through alibaba..... Then you're stupid and I'm not rescuing when you're drowning.

When dealing with a genuine seller, they will happily send you samples etc.

Kite tape, dyneema, spectra, even D2 ripstop or tenjin..... Go for it and go nuts......

But if you buy a kite your a knob...... You deserve to be ripped $1000 and be taught a lesson.

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balidru said...

Heaps of fraudulent kite seller in Indonesia also.

..... you cant get given a teijin.... thats just a company name thats like saying "even d2 ripstop or nivea"....

www.teijin.com/

as for your friend "alfred scott" andrea71..... 28$ and a frosted poptart says thats not his real name, he probably doesnt have his network properly secured tho or proxied so just figure out who he is that way. id be happy to get his REAL address and ISP for you for a fee you just gotto give me the methods and details on how you contacted eachother. or ask some of the nerds at ocau they might do it for free

so , don't even trust Uk or other Governement Agencies

Alibaba is a great place to get stuff factory direct from China / Taiwan.

I had a case of fraud a few months back and got a full refund. They are a pretty good bunch - much larger selection that e-bay if your after manufacturing or raw materials.