Scammer Experience

[Ken Moreland]

Here's a little experience I had during the week. Idly surfing,I came upon a pair of Focal Alto Utopia speakers for sale in London for 3000 pounds. The going rate for these (4 years old)is around 7000 pounds so they were a good potential purchase. The seller confirmed that they were in good condition and no damage etc. I asked for his address with a view to popping over and seeing them , or getting someone to call round but he said they were in his holiday home in the Isle of Man. This made them sound like a wealthy man's set up and probably with little use so after learning all about Manx airlines and the IOM Steam Packet company I said I would pop over to the IOM and everything went silent. After a day I informed the website buy.vivastreet.co.uk and they pulled the ad.

Even in the gentle hifi pastime there are scammers lurking ,ready to hook a sucker.

[Ivor]

there's load of them out there, some of them even have shopfronts!

[willsandbills]

Gum tree london or any gum tree uk site has regularly got hi fi exotica at too good to be true prices all scams I followed up on a few and as ken said you will soon hit a brick wall when u say u are on the way to see the item
Willie

[Diapason]

Same with craigslist. Avoid avoid avoid.