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thommo
15th March, 2008, 05:40 PM
COPY AND PASTED FROM ELSEWHERE ON THE NET, hey i admit it unlike some lol.

SONY VAIO VGN-NR21J/S LAPTOP BNIB

THIS IS A BRAND NEW ? IN THE BOX LAPTOP. A SUMMARY OF THE SPECIFICATION IS AS FOLLOWS:

INTEL PENTIUM DUAL CORE PROCESSOR T2330
15.4 WXGA (1280X800) X-BLACK LCD
2GB DDR2 (2X1GB) 533MHZ RAM
200 GB HARD DRIVE
MOBIL INTEL GRAPHICS X3100
DVDRW DL/RAM OPTICAL DRIVE
MEMORY STICK SLOT ?MAGICGATE
MEMORY STICK PRO SLOT (FOR SD CARDS ETC)
WIRELESS LAN 80211.G&B
WIRED LAN
56K V90 MODEM
4 HIGH SPEED USB PORTS

SOFTWARE INCLUDED:

WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM
60 DAY TRIAL OF OFFICE
60 DAY SUBSCRIPTION TO NORTON
ADOBE SUITE OF SOFTWARE
OTHER SUNDRY SOFTWARE

FOR MORE INFORMATIONABOUT THIS LAPTOP PLEASE VISIT SONY?S WEBSITE HERE

THIS LAPTOP COMES WITH THE MANUFACTURERS STANDARD 12 MONTH WARRANTY WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO REGISTER. THIS LAPTOP DOES NOT COME WITH ANY WARRANTY FROM ME WHAT SO EVER. ALL WARRANTY ISSUES MUST BE DIRECTED TO SONY.





DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN STEAL THIS LAPTOP OFF ME:

PAYPAL: Paypal is currently ebays preferred method of stealing high value electrical items off sellers. There are a number of various ways you can use to steal this laptop using paypal.

1: A Fake ?Item Not Received? (I.N.R) Claim ? All you simply have to do here is purchase my item using an unverified paypal account. Then when you receive the laptop, simply claim that you didn?t receive it at your registered (credit card) and paypal will give you all your money back !

2: A Fake ?Item Significantly Not As Described? (S.N.A.D) This is a great way to steal items off sellers. Simply start a dispute after you get the laptop making up some lie about the item being damaged etc ? You could use Photoshop to make up fake pictures of damage. Paypal will ask you to send the item back to me, but don?t bother ? they never enforce that on buyers and after a short wait you will get all your money back and you will still have the laptop.

3: A fake ?Unauthorised Use? Claim ? This is a super way of stealing items on ebay and is widely used. Simply claim that someone hijacked your account (paypal & ebay) and that you didn?t order the laptop. Then in conjunction with a fake I.N.R claim you can simply steal the laptop and of course, get your money back.

4: A Stolen Credit card ? Of course, ebay make no real attempt to vet any of its buyers, so hey, just register a new ebay account using fake ID information and link it to a paypal account set up with a stolen credit card ? and hey presto ? A free laptop.

WESTERN UNION

Although officially banned on ebay, fake western union payments are the preferred way for Nigerian Scammers to steal high value electrical items. Simply email me (using pigeon English) telling me that you would like to buy this item using Western Union ? Tell me that you would be happy to pay over the odds for the laptop and that it is a present for your mother in law. Then send me a fake western union payment notification and I send you the laptop ? Perfect. This method of stealing items off sellers is very widely used on ebay and of course, as ebay do not properly verify buyers its easy to do. Make sure you use Pigeon English as I am really really stupid and it?s bound to fool me.

MUGGING

If you are a traditionalist like me you may prefer a good old mugging. Simply offer to meet me on some dodgy housing estate somewhere and have a load of you mates hiding behind a hedge with a few iron bars. Again, offer to pay me over the odds as there is nothing better than using a sellers greed to bait them into a scam. I would be grateful if you could avoid killing me as this will cause bad publicity for ebay which would be terrible.


GENUINE BUYERS

In the unlikely event that you are actually a genuine buyer then you really should be shopping in a real shop and not this scammers paradise. However this laptop does really exist and is really for sale. You can email me or skype me with suggestions on how we may actually transact this item to both our satisfaction ? with both our safety in mind. Don?t even think of buying it using paypal. I?ve only listed it as accepted because ebay run a protection racket that means I have to accept it. If you do pay by paypal I will simply refund your payment and give you a nice new shiny NEG.

FEEDBACK BLACKMAIL

Of course you will no doubt be aware that from May onwards you will be able to blackmail sellers into giving you free P&P / discounts etc. You will be able to give them neg feedback and they will not be able to give you any.. I regret to advise you that because this rule does not come in until May this option of scamming me is not open to you yet.


AUCTION WRECKING

I would grateful if some sad failed traffic warden could report this auction for two reasons

1: Ebay will see this listing and will hopefully close my account, saving me a 180 days wait to do it myself.

2: You will save me listing fees, making this a free advert.

Happy Bidding!

smirnoff_rules
15th March, 2008, 06:34 PM
thats a very good point :

FEEDBACK BLACKMAIL

Of course you will no doubt be aware that from May onwards you will be able to blackmail sellers into giving you free P&P / discounts etc. You will be able to give them neg feedback and they will not be able to give you any.. I regret to advise you that because this rule does not come in until May this option of scamming me is not open to you yet.

great read that thommo

C64
14th April, 2008, 10:27 PM
It's all true and quite and entertaining read but I was uneasy reading it as practically all of the stuff has happened to me in the past, only one I've not fell victim to is the Nigerians.

thommo
14th April, 2008, 10:41 PM
hello witccy i harf used my friends account on here to send yoo this message.

i want t obuy your item on ebay for my brother price mubwabeewabee and i will pay yoo 1000gbp if yoo will send to ghana.

it iss urgentt so pleese send fastest time.

god be with you


albert smith.

Devilfish
15th April, 2008, 12:14 AM
Hahahaha...that it SO true!

C64
15th April, 2008, 12:24 AM
lololol, few years ago I was selling a Nvidia Geforce 4200 GFX card, at the time it was considered quite a powerfull card, it was worth about ?70 second hand and i got an email from some twat in 'London' asking me if i could send my item to their brother in Nigeria.

They offered me ?400 for it and he would give me ?50 to cover postage. I jumped at it and accepted, he then sent me ?500!

Remember this was before all the big news reports of Nigerian scammers, I had no idea they existed.

There was i sitting with ?500 in my paypal account for a ?70 item, i was sooo close to clicking the button to withdraw it to my bank account but i had a nagging suspicion, so i left it a few days, i posted on the eBay forum and people advised me against it saying that it had to be some sort of scam, dissapointingly I refunded their money :(

They then wrote back to me offering ?600 for the card and ?100 postage!

SWINES.

caveman_nige
15th April, 2008, 11:36 AM
LOL that was as funny as ~~~~...... You just cheered me up.

Crash2744
15th April, 2008, 08:01 PM
ebay is just full of scammers

alec
16th April, 2008, 11:04 AM
It's not just ebay, where there is money, there is conmen.
Microsoft come to mind.