Is it too good to be true...

corkandproud · 12-01-2009 7:15pm #1

http://www.eeb8.com/goods.php?id=255

michael_23 · 12-01-2009 7:26pm

"Is this too good to be true" - In a word YES. If I was looking to buy a camera I would most definitely NOT purchase it from that site.

Morrisseeee · 12-01-2009 7:27pm

"Is this too good to be true"

...this Q answers itself, always ! > YES.

corkandproud · 13-01-2009 12:35am

Has anyone dealt with them, are the fly by nights?

soccerc · 13-01-2009 12:40am

corkandproud wrote: »

Has anyone dealt with them, are the fly by nights?

You've answered your own question, yes they are fly by nights.

They've come up before and were reported using hacked hotmail/yahoo accounts to email users contacts.

Hint: Payment by wire transfer?

Scam

dazftw · 13-01-2009 2:42am

wonder how many they have in stock?

http://www.eeb8.com/goods.php?id=68

Trojan911 · 13-01-2009 8:48am

Even looking at the website the image of the Canon looks out of focus and the site looks "thrown together". I would give it a miss also.

I find that when something looks or sounds to good to be true, then it is, to good to be true.

quilmore · 13-01-2009 10:13am

was there a site to see reviews/complaints about a particular shop?
I've searched for it but could find american ones, need to check on one from UK (ajelectronics.co.uk) for a friend buying a camcorder

thanks

AnCatDubh · 13-01-2009 11:02am

If you do a whois lookup on a site you can start to gather a background check;

eeb8.com

Registrant:
Organization : huji
Name : huji
Address : ddddddd
City : dddd
Province/State : xinjiang
Country : CN
Postal Code : 555555
<snip>.........

That don't look too promising.

Then do a google on patterns like;

<domain name> sucks
<domain name> spam
<domain name> fake

things like that.

In this instance for "eeb8 spam" - you'll see not much but one of the regular scams where someone reports their hotmail account has been hacked and that the company had emailed all their contact. Happened to Sineadw recently if i recall correctly with another site and my sons email account for another site.

If I were you i'd stay about a million miles away from it. But that's just me.

AnCatDubh · 13-01-2009 11:05am

Oh the other reason you may not find too much on a google is that they tend to start up -> scam people ->shut down -> open up under a different domain -> scam people ->shut down -> etc..... all very quickly. So i'd say no result or a small number of related results in google is probably not a good sign.

DaireQuinlan · 13-01-2009 11:15am

quilmore wrote: »

was there a site to see reviews/complaints about a particular shop?
I've searched for it but could find american ones, need to check on one from UK (ajelectronics.co.uk) for a friend buying a camcorder

thanks

There's resellerratings which normally has a good portion of the shops out there.
for UK stuff, www.ciao.co.uk often has reviews from people. For Ebay use toolhaus.org. Invaluable site, has saved me more than once ...

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