Buying Laptops off Ebay

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rico

Original Poster:

7,916 posts

262 months

Friday 13th June 2003
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Hi all

I haven't bought anything off ebay, but some of the bargains that are on the site make it very attractive.

Any pitfalls?

Any advice?

Cheers all, Andy

sybaseian

1,826 posts

282 months

Friday 13th June 2003
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Hi all

I haven't bought anything off ebay, but some of the bargains that are on the site make it very attractive.

Any pitfalls?

Any advice?

Cheers all, Andy




Make sure that you check the sellers ratings and try to buy the item from a reputable one. If you buy, make sure that you are covered by you credit card for fraud so that you won't be out of pocket if the worst happens. The majority of purchaser don't have any problems.

beware of anything that seems too good to be true as it usually isn't........

victormeldrew

8,293 posts

284 months

Friday 13th June 2003
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Indeed.

I recently won an auction for a laptop which looked very real, down to detailed specs of a specfic Dell Asset no being posted. Price was very good - too good really. Seller insisted on payment via Western Digital money transfer, and the only contact details forthcoming was a hotmail address. When I queried the payment method I started getting two streams of replies - one from the "seller" and one from the real onwer of the hijacked hotmail address.

Needless to say I passed, and bought a brand new Dell from Dell.

Be careful out there. I've bought lots of smaller stuff off eBay no problems, but you do need to be very careful for larger purchases.

Edited to add: BTW the "seller" has a very good ebay rating, but of course he wasn't the seller at all! Like I said, be careful!

>> Edited by victormeldrew on Friday 13th June 17:39

simpo one

87,066 posts

272 months

Friday 13th June 2003
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I believe that for amounts over £100 the credit card company is jointly liable for any failure in supply of goods or services. On the few occasions that I've asked them for help, they've always taken 'my side' and helped to resolve it. Once I sent my CC number in an e-mail by mistake; I phoned my CC company and they said something like 'Don't worry, if anything turns up on your statement that you don't know about, let us know and we'll sort it out.'