Author Topic: Sl-6000l On Amazon For $300 Right Now! (Read 103620 times)

neuroshock · « **Reply #405 on:** December 13, 2004, 01:53:41 am »

The dam seems to have broken that held back the millions of amateur scammers and they are obviously out in force for the holidays. But I agree with the above assessment, these guys aren't in the same league as jpettins. These are rank amatuers in comparison.

On a brighter note, the 6k I was selling above was purchased by a family that had been caught in the jpettins deal. They had actually purchased several of them and had been fortunate to find replacements on Ebay from a seller who had a long standing good track record of dependability and from myself. I'm very happy they have been able to put this debacle behind them. Their Z's have ended up costing them a few more dollars but at least the space under the Christmas tree won't be quite so empty.

My hope and prayers are that the rest of you will find financial resolution by Christmas Day at the latest so that this won't stain your holiday any worse than it already has!

I wish you all the best of luck and I'm really grateful for all the work you guys are continuing to do in identifiying the scammers for the rest of the ZUG community here during the Holidays. It's become a very positive outgrowth of a very negative experience.

God Bless you all and Many Thanks,

-NeuroShock

adf · « **Reply #406 on:** December 13, 2004, 11:13:57 am »

I dunno... it just seems like it would be so easy to keep these bozos out of the loop... What can the guys at amazon fraud be thinking?

nilch · « **Reply #407 on:** December 13, 2004, 11:46:06 am »

God, how awful can Amazon be at this.

They should just stick to selling DIRECT and not encourage or involve 3rd party sellers.

The ebay is eBay and Amazon is Amazon and never the twain shall meet ....

Anyways, I moved on over to ebay and hooked a 6000L at $415 (including shipping). Actually this seller seems genuine, cause I mispaid (paid lesser) and he refunded the earlier payment and I made the new payment again. If he was a fraud, he could just do away with the 5 dollar lesser amount and not bother refunding etc just for that small amount.

BTW, he seems to have another unit left too, so anybody interested
can email the seller
ebay2600@hotmail.com.

I am in no way affliated or even know this seller, and I am praying and keeping my fingers crossed that this does turn out to be a clean deal... after getting burned by Amazon.

Too bad I couldnt get a 6000L for $300

adf · « **Reply #408 on:** December 13, 2004, 11:54:40 am »

thinking of selling your 750?

adf · « **Reply #409 on:** December 13, 2004, 12:11:41 pm »

And thanks Neuro... but really my holiday isn't much affected by whether i have another pda to play with or not. I hope no one else's is..

adf · « **Reply #410 on:** December 13, 2004, 12:16:59 pm »

Ok.. so i'm bored ...
Anyone notice that the new amazon sellers are up to 500+? I guess they think it makes 'em look legit. Now they are as much over the going rate as they were under it.
stupid stupid stupid cavemen who do this because they can't get a job.

nilch · « **Reply #411 on:** December 13, 2004, 01:21:38 pm »

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thinking of selling your 750?

ah, not realy - at least not right now, and certainly not even thinking of it till I ACTUALLY get my 6000L in my hands.

God, it seems this 6000L is a slippery product for me to lay my hands on nice and clean...
Planning to port the PDAXROM over to the 750 and use the 6000L as a standard workable handheld.

Nexus7 · « **Reply #412 on:** December 14, 2004, 10:21:13 am »

Is everyone waiting for Amazon grace period (for the seller to scram), contacted their credit card company, or something else?

Seller had some positive feedback yesterday. More astroturfing? Preparing for a fresh scam? Any way to track those leaving feedback?

adf · « **Reply #413 on:** December 14, 2004, 04:41:35 pm »

We've done some of that. Basically Amazon has to handle these things better. The feedback is almost certainly bogus. None of us has received any package nor notice nor anything but the by now famous amazon blow-off. I contacted my bank. It looks like many or even most of the people here did too, and already bought other 6000's. I am watching 3000 prices on pricejapan and thinking it over.

offroadgeek · « **Reply #414 on:** December 14, 2004, 04:56:42 pm »

I'm waiting for amazon to provide the refund. Even though they should know this is an obvious scam, they probably have to wait out the period as described in the a-z policy for insurance reasons.

el_borak · « **Reply #415 on:** December 14, 2004, 06:05:21 pm »

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I'm waiting for amazon to provide the refund. Even though they should know this is an obvious scam, they probably have to wait out the period as described in the a-z policy for insurance reasons.

What? You willing to be reasonable and live up to the policies you both agreed to?

selfabuse · « **Reply #416 on:** December 14, 2004, 06:28:43 pm »

the 6000 i got off ebay for $412 just showed up, so apparently at least some of the ~$400 ones on ebay are legit.

ottod · « **Reply #417 on:** December 14, 2004, 10:20:45 pm »

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the 6000 i got off ebay for $412 just showed up, so apparently at least some of the ~$400 ones on ebay are legit.

From whom did you get it? I won a bid on one on Sunday from shanetso, who seems a reputable seller. I would get some peace of mind if got it from him...
Thing is I was also going to get one from Amazon the last night the $378 ones were on sale, but I'm in Guatemala Central America. First I had to get the physical address of a friend who lives in the US so I left the purchase pending until the next morning but then they were gone! Then I was tempted to get one from jpettins. Thanks God I did not! I checked his background and he had been selling ET novels for $0.01 to build up his rating! So I did not trust him.
Wanting a Zaurus so badly (I have been using Linux since 1993) but not happy to pay $700 for a Zaurus I just came to the ZUG on December 1st, when Amazon had sold their last one, jpettins was doing his thing and OZ finally supported the 6k. I then decided to go the ebay route but it is my first purchase there. Being abroad makes you think not twice but many times to go on a bid.
I hope my 6k deal comes to an end nicely as yours did.
PD: I got mine for $395 on a slow Sunday bid. All the other I have tracked have been sold for $405, I always losing them for 5 to 10 bucks.

nmos · « **Reply #418 on:** December 14, 2004, 10:32:41 pm »

I'm also waiting on Amazon's guarantee. In the long run I think it's more of a sure thing than working with the CC company. As for the positive feedback they are probably real people who bought his cheap DVDs etc before he moved into the final stage of his scam.

ambience713 · « **Reply #419 on:** December 14, 2004, 10:38:00 pm »

Hi. Well, I got my Zaurus a week or so ago, and I think I will stick with my Palm T3, so it's on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MESE:IT

73 feedbacks, all positive
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Author Topic: Sl-6000l On Amazon For $300 Right Now! (Read 103620 times)