A Bell Block man is warning users of online auction sites to be wary after he was scammed out of $950.
Weihong Song won an auction for a brand new iPhone 5 on TradeMe and deposited the money into what he thought was the seller's bank account on December 31.
However when Mr Song, who said he regularly uses the website to buy goods, contacted the seller four days later to ask where his phone was he was told someone else had used the account to sell the item.
"It has never happened like this before," he said.
"I don't know who I can trust now.Custom imprint usb sticks are portable mass storage devices with a twist. Each drive is strategically imprinted with a unique company logo or brand name. There are a lot of liars on there.Sadly, the iPad doesn't have either a USB port or an SD slot, but Apple sells the Apple ipad camera connection kit for £25.Accommodating Color Cctv cameras was part of the goal for the lighting masts ... The RGB LED system was manufactured by Philips Color Kinetics."
To make matters worse, had Mr Song checked the seller's history, he would have been alerted to a history of similar previous offending.
Mr Song has reported the loss to police and Trade Me is also investigating.
Mr Song was saved from losing a further $880 he had bid for another phone when that auction was removed as the seller could not produce the goods.Different pen shape usb sticks give you different feeling,I believe you will like it.
He wanted to warn others to be careful when buying goods online.
"If you buy something, don't put money into a bank account,If your watch can be also to preload files and photo, are you surprised? As usb flash drive supplier, HengJia design and produce the following watches usb sticks with watch. just go and pick it up - cash in hand.
"If I win another auction I will probably just go and pick it up."
Meanwhile, Auckland police are hunting a fraudster who has allegedly scammed $30,000 from Trade Me users by texting them and offering them iPhones.Do you like twist usb sticks?I guess some people like them,others are not.
Joshua Colin Calthorpe, 32, does not have his own account on the auction site, but trawls through other users' listings to find victims, police say.
He targets people who have left their contact details in the question and answer section of an auction - usually for iPhones.
Calthorpe views auction listings and uses interested buyers' contact details to text or email them, posing as the seller from the auction, police say.
He then offers buyers a deal they cannot refuse, provided it is done outside of Trade Me so he "doesn't have to pay the TradeMe fee". The money is deposited into his bank account but buyers never receive the iPhone.
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