Scam warning
Edited to remove the auction number but a Nord Stage piano 4 88 key & bag is a fraudulent listing.
identical ebay listing posted below, no pickup allowed and PING isn't an option, very cheap shipping. Hope TM removes it soon and question the other one.
Other strange things - Nord case was not described at all (they come in different sizes), yet was bought 56 seconds after it was listed, free shipping was offered, the seller has already left the positve feedback on the trade. Everything happened within one day.
I've been scammed buying a keyboard last year and am super careful now. The Nord auction was just to test whether both old 100% positive accounts work, I think.
-
Gary-NZStocked Community SuperuserLol, I like how he learned how to spell scammer from your replies to comments. No idea what a scamer is.
0 -
Wow indeed. I hope that they are removed ASAP. You have really taken one for the team and I hope that TM will appreciate you doing their job by providing you with some benefits(but who am I kidding...) Thank you for doing this, Callum! This also means that TM would have to refund you all the "success" fees that were immediately taken off you(the only thing TM seems to do fast is to take your money)
0 -
Second scammer just relisted the Nord that Callum bought, so the fraudulent account is still active, 36 hours after the initial listing.
0 -
MichelleTrade Me staff - Community team
Kia ora TM user, is that account still live? Can you pop it through live chat if it is please so we can take it down.
0 -
Gary-NZStocked Community Superuser
That listing and a few others were withdrawn by TM at 5:30 this morning Michelle. The membership is also now disabled., along with another membership too. There is another membership that is still active that had similar listings, so maybe the real owners have got that under control now.
0 -
Callum Community SuperuserYep, as Gary said disabled early this morning. 1 of the 3 other known accounts that were compromised by the same scammer and left me bulk negative feedback has been disabled. The other 2 are still live but I have been in contact and they are being checked.
0 -
TM userEdited
Summary-the fraudulent account listings were active for the whole weekend. Callum still has 37 negative feedbacks left by a feral scammer on his account, still not removed by TM. This has now got to a stage when other members are affected while trying to fight scammers (instead of TM)
How's that scam article going, Michelle? So far I talked to Anthony, Shara, Kirsty and you. All of you said that you would "pass it on" to your team. Can someone from the team who received at least 4 messages in the past year, acknowledge the problem? Disabling accounts is not an effective solution.
0 -
Michelle
Kia ora, thanks Callum and Gary, sounds like you've had it covered. Any feedback from scammers should get removed, if not, just give me a shout and I can follow it up.
Thanks for following up on the article TM user, it is with the right team but I don't have an update for you, sorry.
0
68 comments
Date
Votes