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Had an eBay seller sell me refurbished hard drives as brand new. I purchased new Western Digital Red 5k, they sent refurbished 10k enterprise drives with 5k sti
by tiew9Vii 3y ago
Had an eBay seller sell me refurbished hard drives as brand new. I purchased new Western Digital Red 5k, they sent refurbished 10k enterprise drives with 5k stickers.
High 99% feedback, large numbers marked as sold.
Ok contacting the seller saying I got refurbished drive with the reported drive stats I got abusive phone calls saying they have my address, they don’t sell fakes, they are going to come to my house and teach me a lesson calling the drive fakes. Turned out the registered address was 2000 km away at some random suburban residential address, the person on the phone had broken English phoning from a Thai phone number so I wasn’t to worried about that and laughed it off and said good luck.
I contacted eBay, left a poor review saying received fake goods, got threats of violence from the seller. eBay refunded my money and a week later my review was removed for the seller to continue scamming customers which must be many by the items sold and number of reviews.
I ignore positive reviews now. They are curated so not worth any substance if bad reviews get removed.
- gusgus01 3y agoFunny enough that sounds really similar to the actions of the CEO and others at Ebay: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-ebay-exec-heading-prison-harassing-couple-behind-newsletter-2022-09-29/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-ebay-exec-heading-prison... So it's not that surprising that they allow it on their platform.
- asdefghyk 3y agoRE "......the person on the phone had broken English phoning from a Thai phone number......" Probably a person that works at the hard drive factory IN Thialand. Hard drive capacity reduced in this way when part of the drive has a problem. Maybe its a warranty return. I would complain directly to Western Digital . If the problem was detected at factory, most likely it never would have had a 10K sticker put on ....
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- crtasm 3y agoFraud and threats - they deserve to be reported to the police. This is also a reminder it's good that I don't give my phone number to anyone on ebay.