Are these items stolen?

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I keep seeing brand new goods being sold on face book with reason for sale as "doesn’t fit", I have commented before asking "why not exchange it" and just get told that they cannot be bothered?

One said they cba to return to Amazon as they had thrown away the box but then said bought a bigger size, I wondered why they didn’t use the replacement box for the return?

If stolen wouldn’t the Police just watch Facebook and pick up the repeat offenders?

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Scrump said:

I would think these types of items are either stolen or fakes.

I didn’t think of fakes, that would also make sense.

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It is odd that it can be so blatant. I guess the names of the sellers could be fake or they don’t care as they rarely get caught. You would imagine police could arrange to buy and then simply raid them.

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Andeh1 said:

They'll just be fakes, pennies imported from China.

It must be a nightmare for the real manufacturers.

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Gareth79 said:

That specific item seems to be sold by a guy into motocross, and is selling other related items, so it's not fake, probably bought cheaply on a whim.

Ah. Ok, maybe legit then, it’s odd as most stores would exchange an item if bought the wrong size.

Looked a bit more closely and the left hand badging seems to be missing a red bull motif that the others for sale seem to have.

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dacouch said:

In addition to the stolen and fakes you also have stuff being sold that the receiver has told the retailer the parcel never arrived and put the replacement they sent out up for sale

And also stuff that is bought (Often in bulk) when see on a deal website such as Hotukdeals where miss prices or incredibly good deals are listed.Often possible to buy something from a genuine seller that it's possible to resell on for a profit

My friend has a sales website in the VW world and he does get a lot of people claim that they did not receive the goods, Paypal find in the buyers favour even when he provides a signature to say the parcel was signed for, the buyer says "that is not my signature"

Again, had not even thought of your suggestion.,,,lots of naughty people out there.

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Jim the Sunderer said:

I often see advertised £300 canvas gun bags.

Who'd have thought empty canvas bags were so expensive...

Wow...like a lucky dip...maybe you get a sawn of shotgun or maybe a glock?

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Psycho Warren said:

Caddyshack said:

My friend has a sales website in the VW world and he does get a lot of people claim that they did not receive the goods, Paypal find in the buyers favour even when he provides a signature to say the parcel was signed for, the buyer says "that is not my signature"

Some couriers now take photos on delivery. However the way paypal and ebay work means they will likely still rule in the buyers favour.

And then there is the high likely hood they will leave negative feedback because they couldn't get away defrauding you. And as a seller you can do nothing about negative feedback.

They perhaps need a pic of us giving a thumbs up that we are happy with the delivery!

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KTMsm said:

Psycho Warren said:

And then there is the high likely hood they will leave negative feedback because they couldn't get away defrauding you. And as a seller you can do nothing about negative feedback.

I just had a negative feedback because the buyer doesn't like deliveries by Royal Mail, despite it saying in the ad that I was sending by Royal Mail and despite it arriving within the stated timescales

I appealed it on ebay - rejected as it doesn't break ebay rules

How can you give negative feedback for that? If you don't like my delivery options then buy elsewhere????

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slk 32 said:

Caddyshack said:

It is odd that it can be so blatant. I guess the names of the sellers could be fake or they don’t care as they rarely get caught. You would imagine police could arrange to buy and then simply raid them.

My experience from a couple of years back is the Police don't care.

I had a new credit card and used it once to pay for a Sky upgrade whilst I was at work..I was a bit reticent to just provide details over the phone but thought 'I'm just being paranoid'.

Two days later I get a call from my credit card company asking If i'd ordered 15 pairs of Ray Bans.

Turns out the criminal mastermind had them sent to his home address!.

Sky suspended the guy and wanted to prosecute but the police wouldn't get involved, even when I called them their rationale was that I had got the money back from the cc company so stoo comlaining!.

In the end Sky couldn't keep him suspended so fired him..he's probably doing the same elsewhere.

I have heard similar before, the person had used the card to send flowers among other things and the florist gave out the address, the card owner found out it was the blokes (thief) girlfriend that received the flowers. The police nor the credit card company were in the slightest bit interested.

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944 Man said:

When was this?

When was what?

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I have just seen a load more ktm stuff some up for sale on the same ktm thread, all with labels and many multiples of sizes, all heavily discounted prices...assume they are fakes or bankrupt stock?