sellstuff.ie hijacked my mobile phone ads

flodis79

I had a few ads for mobile phones up on cityads and buyandsell, and last night I got an SMS from sellstuff.ie saying that they had put my ads on their site. Unsolicited of course. Have anyone experienced this?

viper006

ya happened me too yesterday..sounded dodgy

i dont tink theres even a sellstuff.ie

eddiewilkin

Hi all
Im new to this board,but wanted to reply.
I also got a txt yesterday from sellstuff.ie and placed an advert on there and yes it was free.I got a few calls aswell about my car and someone is calling today to have a look at it so i dont think its a scam.Will let you know more about it if i sell it etc.
Now the main reason im here...anyone know where i could get a decent pc? Pc world are rubbish at customer service etc and the attitude of the staff is poor at best.

Thanks

Tom Dunne

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Hi all
Im new to this board,but wanted to reply.
I also got a txt yesterday from sellstuff.ie and placed an advert on there and yes it was free.I got a few calls aswell about my car and someone is calling today to have a look at it so i dont think its a scam.Will let you know more about it if i sell it etc.

Did you place and advert directly with sellstuff.ie, or with Buy and Sell?

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Now the main reason im here...anyone know where i could get a decent pc? Pc world are rubbish at customer service etc and the attitude of the staff is poor at best.

Thanks

This forum is for discussing mobile phones/PDAs. The Computer forums are over here. Post your question there and somebody will help you out.

eddiewilkin

Hi Tom

I placed my add directly with sellstuff.ie.I just had 2 more calls:D.Again i will et you know if it sells this afternoon

eddiewilkin

Evening all

Well my car sold this afternoon and the phone still ringing:D not bad for a free ad huh.had it up at 5500 and got 5375 for it ,very happy.Was a bit sceptical about it at first but seems to work.

Got a pc aswel from currys

Venom

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Evening all

Well my car sold this afternoon and the phone still ringing:D not bad for a free ad huh.had it up at 5500 and got 5375 for it ,very happy.Was a bit sceptical about it at first but seems to work.

Got a pc aswel from currys

What a really nice almost fairytale like story from someone who just joined boards.ie to post in a thread about some dodgy sounding website people were concerned about dealing with :rolleyes:

Tom Dunne

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Evening all

Well my car sold this afternoon and the phone still ringing:D not bad for a free ad huh.had it up at 5500 and got 5375 for it ,very happy.Was a bit sceptical about it at first but seems to work.

Got a pc aswel from currys

Could you confirm you have no connections whatsoever to sellstuff.ie?

eddiewilkin

Connections? well i placed an ad there

Tom Dunne

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Connections? well i placed an ad there

Can you confirm that other than placing an ad there, you have no connections to that site? As in, you have no hand in running it, promoting it, or benefit in any way from it.

eringobragh

eddiewilkin wrote: »

Evening all

Well my car sold this afternoon and the phone still ringing:D not bad for a free ad huh.had it up at 5500 and got 5375 for it ,very happy.Was a bit sceptical about it at first but seems to work.

Got a pc aswel from currys

Lol :pac: Priceless May I direct you to the definition of:

shill

–noun
1. a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.

2. a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.

–verb (used without object)
3. to work as a shill: He shills for a large casino.

–verb (used with object)
4. to advertise or promote (a product) as or in the manner of a huckster; hustle: He was hired to shill a new TV show.


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eddiewilkin

I really do not like the way im being treated by th people on this site.Can someone explain to me just what it is i have done wrong?

bluerythmsdiet

3 weeks ago i put my bicycle up for sale, on this site and on Dublin bikes, 2 ads came back from DB both were false buyers, Today I received a cheque from one of these time wasters for €5k, the bike was sold to him at €1800, Ths guy in question was French/Swiss, The cheque he sent was from Ulster Bank in Naas Co.Kildare, The bank advised me that the cheque was false and to call the fruad unit in the UK, so anyway be aware that these guys are going around the sites, by the way don't call them as they are using UK high premium numbers.
Luckily I still have my bike with no extra charge. Please see the mail below and I would advise you to google any address which you receive, you'd be surprized at how many hits come up.
I also found this guy's mails address on a swedish site and needed to translate the text.
Feel free to pass this information on,

Name: Ansen

Hello Seller, Ansen Philip is my Name; I am saw your bike place for sale which am indeed interested, kindly pls e-mail me with the present condition and least price you are willing to sell it. I will be counting on you soonest you read this message. Justansenphilip@yahoo.fr
Regard.

Tom Dunne

When somebody new starts praising a site in their first post or two, it looks suspicious (see shill above).

Hence why I asked you twice to confirm you had no connection to that site. You still have not done that, raising suspicions further.

I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. But I still need you to answer my question above.

Davy

eddiewilkin wrote: »

I really do not like the way im being treated by th people on this site.Can someone explain to me just what it is i have done wrong?

You havent done anything wrong, and as Al O'Peica said all you have to do is say if you are connected to the site or not

eddiewilkin

i have no connection apart from the fact i recieved a txt and placed an ad on the site.I wasnt promoting it just gave you my experience of it .

bluerythmsdiet

Fair enough, Will do, Thanks, just tought people would like to know.

viper006

hey guys, i was glad when someone posted up a thread relating to this becuase like i stated for days back i got a text from sellstuff basically tellin me they hijacked my ad and put it up on webiste for free..keep away from this lads is all i can say..any website that steals your ad by putting on their website b4 asking you first cant be good..

i trust this website as far i can could throw a piano...ive never had a problem with gumtree,buyandsell,ebay or adverts as you make the call wat and when you buy or sell but i was really annoyed sellstuff just took my details and posted it on their website and text me to tell me its done already..

be wide lads, i have a bad feeling about this one

Tom Dunne

Moved from Mobiles/PDAs.

artyeva

regarding sellstuff.ie - I would just be wary of a website who's only contact info is a contact form - no business name or address.

I looked and couldn't find one - it may be there somewhere but that's just my 2c. if they're sending you an unsolicited text doesn't that mean they have you phone number? i wouldn't like any business - online or otherwise having my phone number if i didn't have the opportunity to find out theirs... :rolleyes:

DublinWriter

artyeva wrote: »

regarding sellstuff.ie - I would just be wary of a website who's only contact info is a contact form - no business name or address.

Got a txt from them myself yesterday.

Aren't unsolicited txt ads against comreg rules and regulations?

artyeva

afaik that only applies to telecoms companies - like those subscription ones where they send you ringtones and such and they deduct credit from your mobile/bill.

when i say unsolicited i mean a few months ago i started receiving these sales calls - i couldn't figure out where this lot would have gotten my number. after a lot of hassle i eventually found out that they had gotten my number from another company i had e-mailed about a product. they were basically selling contact details for people to 3rd parties. this goes on more than people realise DESPITE all the data protection laws we have.... i just don't like ANY company having my phone number or address unless i've given it to them. but that's just me.

foggy_lad

last time i read through the buy & sell it seemed to me that they "shared" their ads with other european publications like their own, maybe this is the case with this sellstuff.ie? maybe they are picking the best of the ads from buy & sell and the buy & sell might be publishing some of their ads in return?

dudara

Well, here are the results from a query on www.whoislookup.ie
. Do they make sense to anyone?

domain: sellstuff.ie
descr: Henry Fitzsimons
descr: Sole Trader
descr: REGISTERED BUSINESS NAME
admin-c: AIT625-IEDR
tech-c: CP27-IEDR
renewal: 19-February-2009
status: Active - LOCKED
nserver: NS1.HOSTING.DIGIWEB.IE
nserver: NS3.HOSTING.DIGIWEB.IE
source: IEDR

person: Henry Fitzsimons
nic-hdl: AIT625-IEDR
source: IEDR

person: Colm Piercy
nic-hdl: CP27-IEDR
source: IEDR

MysticalSoul

My broadband is with digiweb. Could they have got my number that way? I got a text from sellstuff.ie yesterday myself, and no opt out option either :eek:

Tom Dunne

eddiewilkin wrote: »

i have no connection apart from the fact i recieved a txt and placed an ad on the site.I wasnt promoting it just gave you my experience of it .

Well, well, well.

Looks who's banned.

So, folks, not only are the people behind sellstuff.ie engaging in very dubious business practices, they are also liars too.

Good riddance.

Sam Vimes

MysticalSoul wrote: »

My broadband is with digiweb. Could they have got my number that way? I got a text from sellstuff.ie yesterday myself, and no opt out option either :eek:

Definitely not. Digiweb provides website hosting as well as broadband. They host boards.ie actually

darc

As a commercial site, it is operating illegally as it has no contact details available.

Looks like a scam in the making.

Tom Dunne

darc wrote: »

As a commercial site, it is operating illegally as it has no contact details available.

How is that illegal?

darc wrote: »

Looks like a scam in the making.

How is it a scam? Dubious business practices, perhaps, but how is it scamming people?

Mr E

Al O'Peica wrote: »

How is that illegal?

EC Directive 2003/58/EC says contact details, registered business number and business address should be on emails, letters and its "appropriate" to have it on your website too. I would be very wary about doing business with anyone who doesn't have this kind of information on their website somewhere. Its a trust issue.

artyeva

Mr E wrote: »

EC Directive 2003/58/EC says contact details, registered business number and business address should be on emails, letters and its "appropriate" to have it on your website too. I would be very wary about doing business with anyone who doesn't have this kind of information on their website somewhere. Its a trust issue.

Exactly my point - I learned the hard way.

If they have NOTHING AT ALL to hide I don't see the problem in sharing a business address and phone number. I as a consumer like to know as much about a business as possible before I do business with them.

For instance - I was about to buy some expensive camera equipment from a website that has google ads everywhere. They have UK in their website NAME and their were claiming they were a bone fida UK COMPANY so I thought I was buying equipment from the UK. But way off deep, buried in pages and pages of T+C's, I noticed their business address was actually in Hong Kong.:eek:

Not a biggie I hear you say - but like the above poster says - it's a TRUST issue.

Buyer beware.