Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

I am waiting for the famous 4 gb player to arrive (I bought it 10 days from blown-z for @ $50 plus shipping).

I will give you the details after I test the unit.

If the MP3 doesn't have more than 1 gb then I will appreciate your help to solve the problem. I don't have any idea on how to deal with that situation.

THANKS

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

I bought one of these pieces of junk as well and contacted him ahead of time and told him not send if it was not a true gigabyte player. He insisted that it was and sent. After two weeks or so I received the item and instead of being a 4GB player it was a 1GB player and I was told through an email that the shipper to him made a mistake and sent 1GB player and mine was only suppose to be a gigabit player so enjoy my extra bonus christmas gift. How instulting that was enjoy getting ripped off LOL!

I then filed a complaint with paypal and was told to return the item for a refund. I am in the process of doing that now. I also got ripped off from powersellerturbo (I sent item back and was very dilgent until I got my refund) and filed a fraud dispute with ebay and they are investigating if these two people are indeed the same people and why they are still continuing to sell fraudulent items. I suggest to anyone dont wait just file a dispute immediately with paypal and get your money back. The more disputes the more attention and each time a dispute is filed supposedly they freeze some of their account money and this willd definitely put a damper on the seller.

I find it difficult to believe though that ebay doesnt have a clue what is going on. Ebay allows this fraudulent activity to go on and does nothing about it.

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

I got taken for 4 of these players, mine was supposed to be 2gb but really only a 1/4 of that. I have filed 4 disputes with e-bay.

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

My unit was shipped the 21th and I am still waiting for the product to arrive. I still don't understand why the MP3 has not arrived after so many days. I know that the post office has been busy but the shipment doesn't come from Europe or China???
I am sure that if the MP3 from blown-z is hacked then he has to refund me the money plus shipping.
I noticed that he is not selling the hacked MP3 under his name.

Should I contact him before opening a claim with Paypal?

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

Hi Everyone, like most of you if not all of you I have been scammed by Ugoole when I bought 2 x fake MP4's. I also sent countless emails to Ugoole and got the same bullshit replys offering partial refunds etc. Ebay and paypal are a complete waste of space and do nothing to help the victims. They only care about the profits they are making.

I decided to call the Sun newspaper and email them asking for their help in exposing this multi-million pound scam.

I ask all of you who have been scammed to join me and send you story to Charlie Ray - Consumer editor at the SUN and if enough of us do it they will investigate and not only expose the scammers like ugoole but also the tossers at ebay and paypal who ignore our please for help and just send automated emails that just add to the insult.

Ebay have a duty to protect us and they are getting away with murder. Let's all rise up and hit them where it hurts in their profits through bad exposure.

I have included my email I sent to the SUN below. Also remember the SUN are linked to SKY TV and if Sky get involved we could get the message around the world.

www.the-sun.co.uk

talkback@the-sun.co.uk

Subject: china £multi-million electronics scam on ebay! thousands of UK customers being ripped off every week

FAO: Charles Ray

Dear Charles

I am writing to you to ask for your help in exposing a scam on ebay in the form of fake memory hacked MP4’s that UK as well as global buyers are being ripped off every minute of everyday and no matter how many complaints are sent to ebay and their financial processing arm paypal they just turn a blind eye and will not protect consumers because they are making so much money in fees.

MY STORY

I have been using ebay and paypal for a number of years and as usual went on ebay on the 9th December to buy some last minute presents for my children. I specifically searched for MP4 players listed in the UK where the items location was listed as being in the UK because I wanted the items delivered in time for xmas.

I purchased 2 x 4gb MP4’s from an ebay seller called ugoole specifically because the item and seller were based in Preston UK (Fraud #1 – Actually based in China). The item never arrived in time for xmas, then over xmas I received an email from another ebayer warning of the scam and providing me with info on how to check my MP4 when it arrived and various sites that are trying to stop people getting ripped off as ebay who have been aware of the scam for a number of months will do nothing about it and continues to allow the crooks to sell there fake goods on ebay. Money and profit comes first for ebay – customers mean nothing to them.

My 2 x 4gb MP4’s arrived and as instructed I inspected the mp4’s and found that both were in fact only 1gb – the memory chip had been hacked to make it appear to the average buyer with not software or hardware experience or knowledge as a genuine 4gb MP4.

I complained to the seller, ebay and paypal and still I have 2 fake mp4’s and no resolution as after calling paypal today to complain once again I have been told that I the victim of the fraud must prove that the item is fake at my expense. The seller or crook ugoole can just wait and hope that like most people the ripped off buyer just gives up and puts it down to experience. I have lost £61.01 so far and to continue with the process of claiming my money back I need to get a third party independent electronics company to inspect the mp4’s and put in writing on a company letterhead the mp4’s are in only <1gb fake mp4’s which I will have to pay for and then if paypal agrees with my 3rd party I will then have to send the mp4 back to china not preston Uk registered once again at my expense.

The guy I spoke to at Paypal is called Chris (wouldn’t give surname) Senior agent European services 0870 307191 ext 4063. He promised to look into it. But will not confirm if he makes any progress hiding behind the data protection act.

This is happening to thousands of people.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

If you would be kind enough to visit the sites below you will find the full story and you will discover that thousands have been ripped off and even more are continuing to be ripped off and ebay and paypal will do nothing to stop it.

You would think that a company as large as ebay who make billions could put a call centre together to help victims of fraud, instead all the offer is an automated email service which is a total waste of time and resolves nothing.

I hope a paper with as much clout as yours could help others before they get ripped off. All you need to do is go on ebay do a search on mp4 players from buyers supposedly in the uk and you will see the scale of the sales and the rip offs. If you were to run and article in your paper and request anyone who has bought a mp4 on ebay to email you with their true feedback you will be surprised at how many respond. If you also showed the ebayers how to check their mp4 player properly you will also expose many thousands more who did not even know they had been ripped off.

China is having a huge impact on our lives now and in the future and consumers are going to continue to get ripped off unless someone like the sun or news of the world exposes these crooks.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING SITES FOR MORE BACKGROUND INFO AND TO SEE THR TRUE SCALE OF THESE CRIMES

http://www.xbox0.co.uk/

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/The-Offici...00000002547758

THERE ARE LOTS OF LINKS WITHIN THE SITES ABOVE WITH MORE INFO. IF YOU CHECK OUT THE BLACKLIST ON XBOX0.CO.UK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO VIEW THE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK ALL SAYING THE SAME THING YET EBAY AND PAYPAL WON’T ACT TO STOP THE CHINESE MP4 MAFIA.

Check out the amount of sales and x by average order £30-35 = £multi-millions

Please call me if you would like to discuss further.

I am quite happy to send fake mp4’s to you if you like to verify my claims.

I hope you will take up this case and stop UK citizens being ripped off.

Kind Regards

hypmovator

blown_z

don't know if that's really you (the one i was swindled money from) ... but i just sent you an email about the mp4 player you sold me.

if you claim these are giga BITS, you should not have listed it under 1-9 gigaBYTES... you knew what you were doing.

anyways... i was buying a 2 GB mp4 player, NOT a 475 MB one. why the hell would i go from a 40GB mp3 player (the one i've been using) to a little 475 MEGAbyte one? come on now...

so... now i see that memory cards are your latest scam... hope those are not gigaBITS...

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

It's been 12 business days (20 regular days) since blown-z said that he was shipping the famous 4 Gb MP3 player.
My question to you all (I appreciate your help in this matter) if I file a dispute via Paypal for not receiving the infamous MP3/MP4 player and it comes the next day, what should I do? I'm positive that the player is a scam and isn't four gigabytes and I'd like my money back.
Blown-z also DID NOT honor his promise of sending the player in 12 business days.

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

Just FYI, I got a full refund yesterday from blown-z after returning the MP4 player that had hacked memory.

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

Thanks jsevinsk for the information.

I received an email from him saying that he had some problems sending the MP3 and he was sending the unit this week.
I have waited enough since December 20th and I am afraid that the player is hacked. (I have not seen it yet).
I think that, after all, he is not that bad because I have read that he is returning the money to his costumers and the people do not give him bad feedback.
I will wait...

Re: Anybody who personally bought a hacked player from blown
 

After a couples of e-mails I decided to open a dispute with Paypal to get my money back. Blown-z wrote to me ( two days ago) that he had a problem with the server not loading orders from ebay and that he was correcting the problem and he was delivering the MP3 at the beginning of the week and I was supposed to receive it at the end of the week. No MP3 yet and the payment was made on Dec. 20th.

I haven't left any feedback for Blown-z just waiting for the final outcome.