fake N95s

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xecuta

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#19163 7-Feb-2008 18:16

OMG! i was jsut browsing through trademe. and see soo many fake N95 forsale! my first N95 was a dead fake one! no wifi,no gps. looks soo real when u turn it on even got the Nokia cerimony on start up.

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#109135 7-Feb-2008 18:46

Yep, buyer beware. Although they don't advertise as "Nokia N95s", what the sellers are trying to do is to trick people into thinking they are genuine Nokias. The sellers do deny this but hey, we know the truth.

TradeMe should seriously take down those auctions.

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#109140 7-Feb-2008 18:56

Yes the auctions should be removed. Ask the seller is this a nokia n95 or the cnet fake n95.

dnb4life

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#109169 7-Feb-2008 20:36

yea i notcied how bad it was getting a few months ago. glad i got in quick and got a genuine one. tho it wouldn't be hard to tell if a sellers "full of it" and worse comes to worse and they tell you its not fake and it is, hey presto! u got yourself a fraud case! luckily coz the n95 is so pricey it means the cops will actually look into it ...hopefully. it is rather easy to get listings for fake products taken down on trademe by simply complaining, either about the auction or the seller. so go nuts.

dnb4life

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#109170 7-Feb-2008 20:41

ok i just finished posting and thought i'd go see how many fakes were on trademe and it looks like they must have got the message. can only find one n95 listed and its genuine. either sumone went nuts complaining or trademe got the picture.

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#109172 7-Feb-2008 20:52

dnb4life: ok i just finished posting and thought i'd go see how many fakes were on trademe and it looks like they must have got the message. can only find one n95 listed and its genuine. either sumone went nuts complaining or trademe got the picture.

Well done TradeMe then!

xecuta

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#109174 7-Feb-2008 21:05

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=138575187 < thats fake N95 8gb no GPS... still wont reply my questions yet
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=138890197 < and that one
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=139453474 < its got touch screen

by the way, how to make it like a link for those?

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#109176 7-Feb-2008 21:19

If your browser supports Javascipt then the rich text editor would add this automatically. If you have the editor and it is not doing automatically just highlight the URL, click the Link button and enter the link you want there.

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#109184 7-Feb-2008 21:56

Dodgy, really so. I might tip off Nokia to "buy one" and prosecute the seller as they are being very vague about questions and putting up "representitive" images.

That middle one is rather convining! copying the UI and all!
The camera flash LED gives it away quickly though.

At least the first batch of them were at least called "Nokla" or "Asian touch screen version" "style of N95" and sold for much better prices.

As usual, Buyer beware. Trademe are bad at policing knock-offs, I have heard almost all the clothes and sunnies there are just crap fakes.

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#109187 7-Feb-2008 22:07

I notified Trademe of a number of fakes at auction and they took them down....

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dnb4life

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#109192 7-Feb-2008 22:28

hmmm i looked at those links for the fake phones and while one of them closed yesterday, the other 2 are still open for bids, the weird thing is they don't show up if you search for n95 and they're nowhere to be found when browsing mobile phones. maybe when trademe takes an auction down it still runs for awhile b4 the website updates?! ah well atleast theres no more fake ones ppl can actually search for.

xecuta

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#109199 7-Feb-2008 23:40

NZtechfreak: I notified Trademe of a number of fakes at auction and they took them down....

you are a legend! i try reporting them and they never got back to me or closed them down. u got the connections or something?

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#109200 7-Feb-2008 23:45

No connections, I just heard back is all... They probably had quite a few notifications, maybe they only respond to the first one or something...

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