Fake 395XP

[Tom10]

oh my!

someone just bought a non working fake husky for £320!!

 

Ouch.

[GardenKit]

If it was anyone on here, I bet they wont admit it.

[geoff]

If that was sold after being reported a couple of times it raises my eye at the platform that lists these sales.

[MartinF]

Ebay don't care as long as they get their fees.

[alex_m]

I don't bother reporting anymore. The last three items I have done, there wasn't any contact by eBay and the auction ended as normal.

[Pedroski]

Just sent this to the seller....

"Ben, I think you ought to know that the chainsaw you just sold for £320 is NOT a genuine Husky 395XP. It is a Chinese 'fake' that can be picked up for peanuts. The buyer obviously hasn't realised, but he will as soon as he starts to repair it. If I were in your shoes then I'd cancel the sale."

[geoff]

I also sent a similar letter whilst the sale was running,seems the seller & ebay dont care.

[spudulike]

Gotta say that I have reported items in the past and contacted the seller and most of the time, the items are pulled.

 

I know Caveat Emptor (buyer beware) comes in to it but we all know what one of these saws looks like from 100 paces, for the uninitiated it would seem like good value- even a bargain but IMO is bad market trading and not good trading.

[pleasant]

Just sent this to the seller....

"Ben, I think you ought to know that the chainsaw you just sold for £320 is NOT a genuine Husky 395XP. It is a Chinese 'fake' that can be picked up for peanuts. The buyer obviously hasn't realised, but he will as soon as he starts to repair it. If I were in your shoes then I'd cancel the sale."

 

 

....yeah- like the seller didn't already know. LOL

 

Stock comment in the listing description " I don't know much about chainsaws" then distances themselves from the saw by stating it was part of a job lot at auction/house/garage clearance to make it look like the seller is unwittingly selling over a grands worth of saw for relatively peanuts.

 

I gave up reporting stuff like this ages ago. In the beginning ebay pulled the stuff after it was reported- not just fake stuff but also sellers stating they will add vat to the final bid price which is against ebays rules and I just think ebay got p'd off with me constantly reporting stuff (which defeats the object) as nothing seems to be tugged that I report now and I have stopped receiving acknowledgement email from them. I also received some pretty nasty emails from a seller of a fake 395xp, who I emailed in much the same way as the previous poster has done, and I was told in no uncertain terms to mind my own business etc.

Edited April 4, 2012 by pleasant

[Stubby]

I used to do both . Sometimes the seller is innocent and responds accordingly, amending the listing to state its a " copy" the don't go as far as to say a useless fake . ebay do nothing cos they want the money . Ho Hum