18th Feb 2010, 3:40 am
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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I bought two MP4 players from different vendors, and both were hacked.
The first was an "8GB" iPod Nano lookalike. It was actually 4G.
I paid $27 (Australian dollars). Not realising it was a scam, I tried mailing it to China but the post office wouldn't take something with a Lithium battery in it by air mail. I contacted the vendor again and came to a compromise, $10 refund.
I didn't realise at the time it was a scam.
$17 was actually a pretty good price for a 4G iPod Nano lookalike. It works great, as long as I don't try to put more than 4G on it. All in all, I'm happy but still have a sour taste from knowing it was a scam.
But when my second one, a "32GB" iPod Touch lookalike arrived and I had the same issue, I got suspicious. A bit of Googling got me to sites like this.
Armed with links which I emailed him, I said I know it was a scam, and I said if I didn't get a $20 refund immediately I'd make trouble for him. I launched a PayPal complaint.
He paid me the $20. I still gave him a bad rating though, stated in the comment that it was a scam, a 4G drive with hacked chip to look like 32G.
Then it died, after only a couple of hours of use it's a brick.
I demanded the other $20 to be repaid. He initially said no, but I pointed out my negative rating and offered to withdraw it if he paid the remaining $20. I also made some scary noises about how I'd managed to get another eBay seller's account banned for a similar scam previously.
He paid me the second $20.
Now I'm hoping to fix it with firmware from this site, as soon as someone replies to my "Chipod Touch" post in the dead players forum.
All's well that ends well, but I'm still mad and have reported him to eBay anyway.
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