naw fake is fake .. if it's not authentic then its fake and IS illegal to sell =).... anyways how much did u pay for shipping? but shit i just won a bid for somethin i didn't really want lol SHITTT and i won ... i hate internet
I'm sure you can try n get your money back.. Go message Ebay.. or start a claim.. if the person didn't specify they take returns or not.. tell 'em to refund you n gl.. nice bag tho.. had it been real.. -rotfl
that's just pure unluckiness and because of stories liek yours i refuse to go on ebay and buy my shizzles from there.. i would rather go on genuine websites and shops to buy the things that i wanted to prevent myself fropm being ripped off
You can report it to ebay. Users are not allowed to sell imitations. Did you use paypal to pay? If you did they will reimburse you thats part of using paypal...they're the middle person.
^ I think if ya'll read the thread ... the OP is being reimbursed for the fake item she bought on Ebay. But I guess the advice is still informative for others who don't know about it.
I don't really trust ebay so i don't go near it I never buy things from the internet. If i want something i go to a store
ebay isnt that bad its just that you have to be smart but in this case just unlucky and a bit careless >.<
you will get your money back If and only IF you paid with AMEX through paypal and don't do a dispute with pp because you will lose and i believe forfeit your right to a chargeback from your C/C company. I say amex but may be VISA or MC works too but AMEX sure stands by it's customers.
You can probably get your money back, but if they are international sellers, or nigerian based then your out of luck. most fakes are made using the original left over pieces of the design for certain errors that could arise during production. Well i hope you get your money back.
How did it go in the end? I think one time I had a very bad experience with purchasing perfume online. I emailed the seller but I kept getting cookie cut replies of "Oh we've been in the business for 8 years, why would we be selling fake items to you?" And I tried calling the seller but they hung up on me. I even contacted paypal but they didn't do anything since it was already shipped to me and I had no proof of showing it was fake besides the smell. In the end, I sent it back and after WEEKS of "PROCESSING" and several emails pestering them, I finally got it back. =/ I am being more cautious now.
you know what you can do to get back at them, you can mail it back but write the address to them, abit wrong and then show them your receipt of the item been sent back to them and they will refund you and then just wait around 3 weeks the bag will be returned to you because the address was wrong.
I don't think they'll be that stupid to refund you month when they haven't even received the item.. that's like shipping out the item without gettin paid first..
The problem with such a suggestion is if they perceive that you're playing games, then they too, will likely respond in kind. On a completely different note, I remember a story that most people might find really interesting as much as it is disturbing. A few years ago, there was a Chinese "antique" business in my neighborhood that sold old cast off home furnishings reportedly from Guangdong villages. They had initially started as a real walk-in store front business. But, situated as they were on a dimly lit side street and apparently not that market savvy, they were lucky to have sold more than 2 small pieces a month. Faced with continued operating cost and almost zero sales, they were about to shutter themselves when "their savior" walked in. It was a Chinese net wise business consultant; who made his money by getting other peoples' businesses on line. He walked in and correctly assessed that they were facing bankruptcy as they didn't know how to do business. He offered to turn their debacle around with a one time consultant's fee. What he did then was put them on ebay, and he was correct. In about a month's time, he liquidated nearly all of their stock and at prices that they never would have dreamed possible. *** Sidebar *** Chinese operators in China have since figured this out too, and have now been doing this already for years. Their stuff was initially genuine rosewood antiques (more than 100 years old, and bought out from the homes of poor villagers who didn't realize their true value). But when they ran out of sources of the real thing, they began to supply modern knockoffs (genuine rosewood but not antique, or only of recent manufacture). They couldn't stand to make any less so they outright lied and continued to claim that the articles were real antiques. This was in the heyday of ebay and most people were not yet net wise or were overly trusting. Their customers were really a bunch of innocent lambs led to slaughter. But, eventually people wised up and their business did fall into ill repute; they finally closed. However they literally made hundreds of thousands, much of it by outright deception. The family that did this, at last count, fled back to China with their ill gotten gains; they were never caught. As for the OP problem, I think a lot of ebay sellers nowadays don't (or at least you can't prove it) "knowingly" as a legal definition, sell counterfeit items. That is, they put themselves into a position that they can still claim not to have had knowledge of perpetrating a fraud. Their defense is: "...what we're selling are bags; we don't claim them to be collector's items or fashion or designer rarities. It's the customer's own fault for thinking or assuming the product to be something that we never claimed. We even offered to give them their money back; so where is the fraud?" The only way that they can be held to a higher legal or criminal standard is if they actually state somewhere in their advertising, eg: "This is a genuine XYC designer's model # 123 bag," sell the item as such, and then refuse to return the price of purchase after a complaint. Another deceptive technique is to partially show a tag or label that appears genuine; which upon receipt, then turns out to be not 100% the same as the real thing. Hence, if it looks too good to be true, then it is. Another tangential aside; I remember reading the story of a 16 year old, who was buying real but selling fake or broken computer parts on line and making himself a fortune being a net pest and rip off artist. One day, his mother heard a loud noise from their kitchen. She went to investigate and found the boy dead from the explosion of a letter bomb someone had mailed him. The police suspected that it was from one of his victims, a tricked and very angry customer, in retribution for having been deceived. So, in that regard, the Internet is not totally anonymous. Those who are wronged and angry can become driven enough to come and find you. I've even read other stories of people flying internationally to get back at perpetrators after having been scammed.
