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marmel

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#116678 6-May-2013 19:46

Search listings on wheedle for member "mobiles".

Selling a Canon 5D MKII, $3000 plus camera for buy now of $470.

Selling iphone 4S 32GB brand new for $450, price now gone up to $550.

Selling ipad 3 64GB 3G for buy now of $450.

Too good to be true, absolutely.

I purchased one of the iphone 4s 32GB models just to see what the seller would say. Suprise suprise they would not allow me to pick up as they were too busy and told me if I didn't pay by Monday morning at 10am the price was going up???

I have contacted Wheedle 3 times advising them that it appears it is a blatant fraud but there has been no reply and no listings have been removed.

They haven't even put in the camera listing that the model is the MKII, probably because the MKII name on the box is hard to see from the image they have probably gotten from Google.

Is wheedle going to become a fraudsters paradise?

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  #812591 7-May-2013 10:24

I sent the seller an email in my official capacity advising them to remove all listings and not to accept any payments from sales they may have already completed. Five minutes later all items were removed.

I could follow it up but I can't be responsible for all of the dodgy stuff that is going to happen on wheedle if they don't have enough staff to even look at auctions when notified they could be scams. I reported three of the auctions from this seller and wheedle did not respond to any.

Not good enough and if wheedle think they are going to try and challenge trademe the first they need is a safe place to buy and sell goods.

Like I said the one interesting thing about this scam was that there was a Kiwibank account so it is possibly a nz based scammer.

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