Buyer anxiety

Yipes.  That's Thailand.  Some of the biggest international scams originate there.  Some years ago there was a huge forged wine fraud that lost buyers more than $8 million.  Wine speciallsts in auction houses were taken in. It is also known that audio equipment is forged there.  Yup, they copy the stuff good enough so that some people buy them..  Good rule of thumb: don't deal with people in the Far East, except possibly Singapore and Japan.  Not Hong Kong any more, it's just part of China now.

It's worth repeating that the internet and websites are by far the biggest source of fraud and it's growing all the time.

@clearthinker  Ok now even more anxiety! As soon as I saw the phone number, I said WTF. I was very attached to the idea that I rally wanted the unit, even though I saw the red flags. Paypal saved me! 

@clearthinker  Ok now even more anxiety! As soon as I saw the phone number, I said WTF. I was very attached to the idea that I rally wanted the unit, even though I saw the red flags. Paypal saved me! 

@blue-magoo    I'm not intending to create anxiety.  But everybody needs to know the internet and the web are dangerous places.  At time progresses more and more care needs to be taken.  The scammers are far cleverer and more committed than those few trying to clean the place up.  There is nothing that can be done and the experience will get worse and worse.  They sure opened a Pandora's box when they started the internet.

People here rightly say you should always get in contact and talk with people you deal with.  But over her in Blighty the largest and most widespread scams are financial frauds where very plausible criminals do just that and convince you they are genuine.  Billions are lost every year.

The rule has to be: if you are in the SLIGHTEST DOUBT WHATSOEVER immediately walk away.

Wooooooooo…..red lights!