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iPhone 4 available for $700 on eBay. FACTORY UNLOCKED. Buy or no?

I think there are sellers with over 2000 feedbacks that are promising to ship factory unlocked iphone 4 on June 24th. There are buyer protection programs on both eBay and Paypal if the seller tries to pull a quick one.
 
If you have to post a question about this then I feel the answer is "yes" because you obviously need a good lesson in common sense. Get burned once and you don't touch the burners on the stove anymore.
 
Badandy said:
Agreed. People who still say (or ever said) that kind of stuff are no better than (insert annoying, immature, habit here).
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I just personally can not stand that "language", that goes right along with all the ridiculous abbreviations people use. It's one of the reasons that I am often turned off by most forms of multiplayer gaming.



On topic: these types of postings are unfortunate, but often scammers will build an account and "sell" products that are non existent to help inflate their ratings. Then they make and easy $700-$5000 of these type of scams. Other times I have seen accounts be compromised and then they post a few fraudulent auctions in hope to make a quick buck. I know I'm just another guy on the internet, but I have assisted in quite a few computer forensics investigations and sometimes they can be convincing. It's up to every individual who buys and bids on the internet to be informed.

Though, if you can't take a quick glance at these auctions and flag them in your mind as suspicious...you should stay away from Ebay. I can bet that these type of auctions will be more frequent closer to and after the release.
 
I bet the Seller has been compromised looking at his store he mainly sells cheap camera equipment. they got his password and high jacked his account. that one reports 9 sold. Ebay better work to fix this fast.
 
!!!fake!!!

hi
contacted this guy to order 3 iPhones4. This was his answer:

"Hi,

The total price for 3 Apple iPhone 4 32GB is 2100 USD.
We will close the deal through eBay Buyer/Seller Protection Program.
In this way we are both protected.

I will explain you how it works:
eBay will contact us (buyer and seller) with payment and delivery
instructions. You will have to send the money to eBay. Once they have
your payment, eBay will notify me to start the delivery (it will take
24h to 48h to receive the package) and i will give you a tracking
number after is done.

After you receive the phones , you have 7 days to inspect them to see
if they are original , new , unlocked , working ...etc.
If you are satisfied , you will notify eBay that everything is OK and
they will send me the money .
If you are not satisfied, send them back at my costs and eBay will
cancel our transaction and you will get your money back in 24 hours.
Please note that eBay will not send me any money if they don`t have
your confirmation.

Let me know if you are interested because i need some details from you
in order to start this transaction .

Thanks"



After that i contacted ebay to ask if there is such an option to pay. They already knew about this and told me that it is ablolutely fake. Also they recommanded to delete all the mails from this guy an run a virus scan (glad i have all mac:)

So hopefully none of you paid anything yet!!
 
fake online again

Hi

Just saw the same offer again (after it was deleted on 30th of June). Please do not go for this, it is a fake (as i was told by ebay). For further information read my post above.
 
why this is fake!!!

Just to inform you. That's the mail i got by my first request for an order of three iphones. This guy wrote me:

Hi,

Let me tell you some info about my phones :
- All phones are 100% original Apple iPhone 4 32GB made by Apple. I don`t have 16GB version.
- 100% FACTORY UNLOCKED
- They come in original sealed boxes with all original standard accessories.
- As you may know the iPhone 4 works with micro sim cards. I`ll give you for free a Micro Sim Card cutter in case you need it.
- Each phone have 1(one) year international Apple Care warranty . The warranty is valid once you activate the phone.
- You can use the phones with any sim card in any country. I have both colors : Black and White .
- I bought the phones from Apple Factory Foxconn and also this is the reason why i have low prices. If you don`t know Foxconn check this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

I can ship to you your country with UPS , DHL or FedEx with Air Express services(24h to 48h delivery) with tracking number.
The delivery is FREE and there are no customs taxes(i can send as a gift or put a low value i can even write that i send shoes or cloths). I ship from UK (no customs for EU)

As you can see on my description i don`t sell 1 phone, the MINIMUM ORDER is 3.
I have more than 20 phones available in stock and ready to be shipped.
Let me know how many phones do you want to buy so we can talk about payment.
Although the payment is through eBay i`ll not accept paypal. Paypal froze my account. Someone made a payment with a stolen paypal account.

Thanks !


Common: buyed from Foxconn?? white iphones4 for sale?? frozen paypal account??

Hope this opens your eyes!
 
Yeah, there's been another thread on these clowns already. Probably have been more. They keep hijacking top-rated sellers' accounts and putting this same ad up. The sure sign of an honest salesman...

Anyway, it might be worth temporarily stickying a thread about this particular scam since it seems to be very ubiquitous. A lot of people looking for info on this very same scam.
 
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