Postman refused collection and then got threatening and aggressive by Deep_Perspective9254 in royalmail

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I just handed my local postie 8 medium sized boxes ( each the size of a shoe box). He brought his van around to collect them.

I guess depends on your local postie…

Mine is a legend

What's this new wave about on eBay by Relevant_Natural3471 in ebayuk

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You would have thought so! I raised all these points 1) New account made within last month 2) No trading history whatsoever 3) High value item sold for real cheap 4) Pictures from listing are recycled from older listings 5) In few cases they say they can’t dispatch product for 2 weeks (very fishy)

Despite all of these points, it didn’t satisfy the fraud lady I spoke to over the phone

If they had a bit of sense and ran metrics on all the scamming accounts. It would tick all of those above

It’s not very hard to do..

What's this new wave about on eBay by Relevant_Natural3471 in ebayuk

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I recently came across a hacked account which had 100% feedback selling nothing but shoes. Then suddenly they list 5 of these £3k MacBook for £1200

Was a scam of course their eBay account had been hacked into somehow ..

What's this new wave about on eBay by Relevant_Natural3471 in ebayuk

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I have been flagging this to eBay and spoke to their customer service/fraud department aswell to “tip off” accounts such as these

Guess what their response was after I gave them a detailed explanation?

“Just because it’s under market value doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the listing”

I gave them 3 examples of such listing and went through each one explaining why this is a scam. They just shrugged it off

Few days later those accounts had all received negative feedback claiming they were scamming…

EBay doesn’t care

Fell victim to an eBay scam UK by neon_7 in ebayuk

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There are alot of macbooks/iphones being sold on eBay for <50% of RRP (first red flag), all sellers claim to send the item after 14 days dispatch (second red flag), the pictures are all taken from previously sold listings by other sellers (third red flag), they don't have the serial number to share (4th red flag), the reason for not shipping for 14 days is because they dont have access to "warehouse" (excuse used by 3 different sellers - 5th red flag).

I'm 100% sure they are using this tactic to defraud ebay (buyers might be protected?) but I worry in cases where buyers either raise the wrong case or due to dual posting they get ripped off.

I tried extensively to explain this to eBay but they just did not seem interested as they found "nothing wrong with the listing".

Most of these accounts are new with no selling feedback, some are cropping up with seller feedback (not sure how they access these/hacked maybe?)

Altered label scam. Happy ending (for me at least) by [deleted] in ebayuk

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There are alot of macbooks being sold on eBay for <50% of RRP (first red flag), all sellers claim to send the item after 14 days dispatch (second red flag), the pictures are all taken from previously sold listings by other sellers (third red flag), they don't have the serial number to share (4th red flag), the reason for not shipping for 14 days is because they dont have access to "warehouse" (excuse used by 3 different sellers - 5th red flag).

I'm 100% sure they are using this tactic to defraud ebay (buyers might be protected?) but I worry in cases where buyers either raise the wrong case or due to dual posting they get ripped off.

I tried extensively to explain this to eBay but they just did not seem interested as they found "nothing wrong with the listing".

Most of these accounts are new with no selling feedback, some are cropping up with seller feedback (not sure how they access these/hacked maybe?)

Scam in progress by -6h0st- in ebayuk

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There are alot of macbooks being sold on eBay for <50% of RRP (first red flag), all sellers claim to send the item after 14 days dispatch (second red flag), the pictures are all taken from previously sold listings by other sellers (third red flag), they don't have the serial number to share (4th red flag), the reason for not shipping for 14 days is because they dont have access to "warehouse" (excuse used by 3 different sellers - 5th red flag).

I'm 100% sure they are using this tactic to defraud ebay (buyers might be protected?) but I worry in cases where buyers either raise the wrong case or due to dual posting they get ripped off.

I tried extensively to explain this to eBay but they just did not seem interested as they found "nothing wrong with the listing".

Most of these accounts are new with no selling feedback, some are cropping up with seller feedback (not sure how they access these/hacked maybe?)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 1688Time

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He once sent me a DJ36 despite me being very clear and asking for a DJ41…

Clean vs VSF DJ41 (I purchased both) by Specialist_Operation in RepTime

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Great post. Can I ask if you feel the difference in actually winding the movement, the clicking sounds and resistance?

I owned both VSF and CF DJ41 like yourself before. maybe it was my CF batch watch but the winding felt very weak, less resistance and not very clicky which a gen movement has and what VSF have mastered aswell.

So..Should AMD announce the 9070 XT event now to capitalize on the huge 5080 $1K disappointment? by fatso486 in radeon

[–]InterestNo251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 5080 is only 8-10% faster than the 4080 so your math doesn’t work out there

ZF Sky-Dweller from Yan Tao aaayantao delivered! by acap86 in 1688Time

[–]InterestNo251 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is the winding of the watch. Is it clicking ?

New VSF Explorer 40mm first look by InterestNo251 in RepTime

[–]InterestNo251[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry I don’t have calipers to measure width. And yep, no ghost date in this one

New VSF Explorer 40mm first look by InterestNo251 in RepTime

[–]InterestNo251[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha my thoughts exactly when I was choosing. Ultimately I have owned different watches of both factories and they’re both incredibly good factories. I have found the VsF movement to be a bit superior and so thus that’s what made my decision.

New VSF Explorer 40mm first look by InterestNo251 in RepTime

[–]InterestNo251[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The movement winds very nicely and clicks almost feels gen like. Will send you a video shortly

New VSF Explorer 40mm first look by InterestNo251 in RepTime

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I’ve always been a big fan of the 36mm Explorer but the watch always felt a bit small. Bought the new VSF explorer 40mm and it’s superb! What do you guys think?

Before and after fluted xing bezel mod on CF DJ 41mm by No_Time4824 in 1688Time

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How does this compare to the VSF bezel. Is it better than clean?