Hi all,
There is a company that trades under various names (acptan, chitekcorp
and so on) and sells SD, CF cards and other stuff. Their listings
usually have a large amount of unnecessary text that occupies a couple
of pages. But it would be easier for me to use my recent experience to
explain how they operate.
I bought a Kingston 2 Giga CF 50X card yesterday. The postage (ten times
actual was shown as £19.95) but with the postage added the total came to
about what one would expect to pay for such a card. However, when I got
the invoice I found another £19.95 added for 'Postal Insurance'.
Although I looked carefully I didn't see this stipulation which must be
somewhere down at the bottom of the load of crap they have on the
listing. I am aware of this kind of trick, but was still caught. This is
not honest. To deliberately hide extra costs from a buyer is just plain
crooked and I've had trouble from them before. But it was another name
and I didn't make the connection. In this case they had demanded payment
after I'd already paid and refused to deliver. I sorted that out and
eventually got the item (a CF Card of course). Don't buy from them
unless you check and double check every line of the listing. And
remember, they are out to cheat you and they cover their asses very well
so I don't think eBay would be interested in a complaint. And they
change their tactics in order to confuse buyers. I'll get cards from
Hong Kong in future.
Don
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