Hi everyone,
I guess most visitors here already have an N-Gage compatible phone but I just want to share my story- I bought a "Nokia N73" from a UK seller on ebay.co.uk last month for just over 100 quid but now I have been delivered a fake from China with the customs declaration listing it as worth $50 - about 25 quid. Unfortunately as well as getting a fake phone, customs in Germany are only interested in what I paid for the thing and not what it claims to be worth so I will be paying an additional 40 quid on excise duties!
The advert on eBay pictured a real Nokia phone and there was no negative feedback at the time of my purchase. The moral of the story is - if you see a Nokia being advertised at a price too good to be true, it probably is.
Now I have no phone and it remains to be seen if I get my money back. If anyone has an N73 or better they'd like to donate please get in touch!
Neil
That's terrible! 😮 :frown:
Some suggestions:
-Check the listing carefully. Is there anything in there which actually said this wasn't a real N73? If they said "this isn't a real N73" or something like that then there's not much you can do.
-If you're 100% sure the listing says it was a real N73, start a complaint against the seller with ebay in the dispute console. This is a totally separate process from feedback, if the seller loses a dispute they can be investigated or even banned by ebay.
-If you paid through paypal, you are probably eligible for Buyer Protection so they can try to get your money back if the goods you received weren't what you ordered. You can start a complaint through Paypal by starting the complaint through Ebay's dispute console, it will automatically offer to do the complaint through paypal instead (which is usually much more effective).
i bought a memory card off a seller from ebay about 2 years ago.
i bought it with the buy now option,everything seemed ok but the memory card never arrived.i contacted the seller and he claimed that the order was never received and suggested i contact paypal which i did.they completely washed their hands of the whole affair and just would not do anything about it.
in the end the seller (at his own expense i might add) sent me another card which was really good of him (or her) considering they did not have to
moral of this story i don't trust paypal,and some ebay sellers are honest nice people
I've had exactly the opposite experience: a seller took my money, never sent the item, and I only got my money back because Paypal credited it back to me when the seller failed to respond to messages.
Ebay's full of dangers really: the sellers, buyers, paypal and ebay itself can leave you in the lurch far too easily.
this is the exact reason why i'd rather pay the extra little bit of money and buy a used phone from a shop like car phone wharehouse or 1 of them pawn shops
than buy off ebay
b/c even when the goods do get delivered theres still no guarantee they are what you ordered or what you believed you ordered
the online shopping business is so big now but that the small percentage of sellers who turn out to be scammers spoil it for genuine sellers b/c people stop trusting in them fullstop
is your N73 black music edition? cuz this happened to me b4 when i bought a fake nokia N73 that was well copied
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/64796/ :tongue:
Alan_Chan wrote:is your N73 black music edition? cuz this happened to me b4 when i bought a fake nokia N73 that was well copiedhttp://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/64796/ :tongue:
Wow, it looked ABSOLUTELY identical?