Watch out for this guy!!!

[weirdami]

What is the longest anyone in the UK has taken to received something shipped from North America?

The cheapest method for US post office from US to UK/Europe is 4-6 weeks. They call it Economy Parcel Post. It goes on a ship. I always ask people to let me know when it gets to them because it takes so long and I always make sure they know how long it's supposed to take. Gets worrisome when you have to wait that long for an A1000 to get to your buyer!

Turns out it's also 4-6 weeks to Australia. Go figure.

[weirdami]

@kd7ota

Ask him if he'll let you pick it up personally.

[kd7ota]

@weirdami

He hasn't written me yet, but I can definately ask that if he responds back. :-D

[philipj]

kd7ota wrote:
I am gonna create a bogus email account and see if I can mess with this guy and ask him if he has a PPC for sale or not lol. I will post up his emails and see if the same crap happens again. :-)

What if he's reading this thread? ;-)

[kd7ota]

true...but worth a shot anyways.  :-D

[Leifern]

Yeah.. Try it.. Would be fun to read his reaction.. He's probably out of town.. Working.. In Australia.. Yeah! Or Canada! Hehe..

[Jose]

Well he could be watching this thread so of what use is to send him a bogus mail if you're telling him so beforehand.

I'm from Portugal but I'm in a place 300Km away from Lisbon (Algarve) so I can't be of any help. Even if I was close don't think contacting/paying a visit to him would be of any use.

There's free center to solve "consumer conflicts" (or whatever it's called in english) at www.centroarbitragemlisboa.pt whose rullings are as valid as a court's but I don't think this case would qualify as it works only with stuff bought from companies. But you could send them an email and ask for advice anyway. Don't hold your breath though.

[Jose]

" Yeah.. Try it.. Would be fun to read his reaction.. He's probably out of town.. Working.. In Australia.. Yeah! Or Canada! Hehe.."

If you mean someone from another country pretending to be from here I think he must be from Portugal given his account data, otherwise he wouldn't be able to receive the money with a bogus bank account.

The most f*cked up thing (really) is that bank account data and proof of goods shipment should be able to secure oneself but they aren't. I got scamed twice with PPC cards, one from germany (the famouns bernd bind or whatever case) and another one from Greece. The bank account data is worth sh*t. If you want anything done you have to pay a lawyer. :madashell: It's probably a diferent case with consumer goods bought from a shop in most EU countries in wich case you can get the case solved free of charge using a center like the one I mentioned above, but there should be a way to solve stuff sold privately too.

[Jose]

@Leifern

Check PM...

[weirdami]

Well he could be watching this thread so of what use is to send him a bogus mail if you're telling him so beforehand

It doesn't matter. He's trying to get people to send him money. If you don't send it, how many others did? One person playing a trick won't stop those other people from being scammed. What needs to happen is a knife to the eye.

[Minuous]

More like 4-5 months from USA to Australia.

[pixie]

X-ray wrote:
But according to those threads, LuisTHE is not the same Luis that is scamming people.

He's lying

[X-ray]

But then why hasn't there been a lot of outrage there? Those threads just fizzled away and nobody challenged LuisTHE at all.

 :-?

If that had been here, he would have been lynched by now  :ak47:

[Evillord68]

Hallo, the same guy have ripped me, too. I bought a Blizzard 1260 from him.
But the card have never arrived. It´s over 1 and a half year ago.
In spring i had contact again with him. Because he solds a Blizzard PPC from Amibench.
He told me much stories, the card was comming back to him and now he have no money to send it again......

Than he told me, he haven´t the card yet, he will send me two Blizzard 1230. But i would my money back.
But he told me he have no money.
Than i would take the 2 Blizzard 1230, but he have no money to send.....

[Boot_WB]

Just to point out that Luis Periera, the Portuguese guy who ripped off several people with bogus ads for Blizzard PPCs and 060s (Hi LuisTHE :-) ), used the pseudonym "Tiago Silva" in some of his dealings, the name of a former member of the Brazilian Soccer team.

There is currently an ad on Amibench for a Blizzard PPC from a Portuguese guy by the name of "Nuno Mendes", which happens to be the name of a Portuguese defender.

These could both be common Portuguese names, and hence this coincidence could be nothing more than chance, however I find this coincidence a little strange. Could be perfectly legit, but if anyone IS pursuing this item, I would recommend researching the threads on Luis Pereira (or Periera) both here and on AW.net, and checking out the various aliases used, the e-mail addresses and postal addresses etc, and being very careful.

[stopthegop]

It says in the ad that there is a "slight" problem with the Bvision card but he doesn't elaborate about what the "slight" problem might be.  

Maybe the "problem" is that it... doesn't exist??

btw, I know of very few people (actually only one) who always end whatever they're writing exactly the same way; like this:

bye,

xxxxx

Ring any bells?  Hint: starts with "L"