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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: John Kelly on December 01, 2013, 08:49:42 pm

Title: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: John Kelly on December 01, 2013, 08:49:42 pm
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/carpet-cleaning-machine-/131059056388?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e83ba7f04         

There is an airflex on Ebay at the moment where it is reported the photos don't match up with the machine.

Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Mike Halliday on December 01, 2013, 09:01:43 pm
Some one should message him to ask if they can go view as they live in the same town ;)

Or as if they can pay cash on collection as they live in the same town so don't need it couriering
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Craigp on December 01, 2013, 10:02:55 pm
Good heads up, how do you know the machine isn't the one pictured?

It states  built in heater. I thought no Airflex had built in heater.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: john martin on December 01, 2013, 10:11:20 pm
Good heads up, how do you know the machine isn't the one pictured?

It states  built in heater. I thought no Airflex had built in heater.


The interior pics are of a Storm  .. straight off  Google images from a suppliers site .

You can have a built in Magma though .
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: feldon on December 01, 2013, 10:33:07 pm
If paying by paypal dispatch will be 21 days? WTF!  Although if paying via paypal i believe you can make a claim for upto 45 days.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Andrew@Approved Carpet Cleaning on December 01, 2013, 10:44:07 pm
The first pic is of a blurry Turbo, the second is the machine I bought from a carpet cleaner in Birmingham, that's one of the pictures he took of the machine I bought when he advertised it on gumtree.
Easy to click and save., too easy in fact.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Craigp on December 01, 2013, 10:53:32 pm
He has no feedback, alarm bells there too.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: psc on December 01, 2013, 11:05:32 pm
That main turbo  picture is my machine..Hes taken it from my web site.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Craigp on December 01, 2013, 11:25:00 pm
The listing can be reported chaps.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Andrew@Approved Carpet Cleaning on December 01, 2013, 11:31:43 pm
It has been loads of times today but its still live. Someone is going to lose some money.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on December 01, 2013, 11:34:24 pm
It happens quite often where the seller can not be bothered to take there own photos and upload them and just use images from Google ect instead, so does not always mean it's not legit. Must admit i always worry when the seller has 0% feedback when selling a high ticket item, you should not be able to do it and their should be a limit to what you can sell until you have a sizable positive feedback!
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: Craigp on December 01, 2013, 11:37:03 pm
Yeah and that 'bid safely' rubbish don't mean much, a mate of mine bought a dud iphone, sent it back to seller, seller said they never received it despite the fact it was signed for, ebay wouldn't pay up sh*t. He lost his money.

You are not safe on ebay.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: JandS on December 02, 2013, 10:23:19 am
You are safe on e bay if you go pick high end priced stuff up yourself.
I've bought 2 rotaries off e bay..the 2nd one was priced at £360 brand new...travelled down for it and he even knocked me the VAT off when he realised I wasn't registered, got it for £300.
Picking a nearly new Sprite 300 up tomorrow afternoon that I got for £150.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: derek west on December 02, 2013, 05:17:41 pm
someones just lost over a grande, and just before xmas, this has to be a con because they have no feed back, the photo's are dodgy and if you read the small print, they want paypal only and the item will not be despatched for at least 21 days.

hmmmmm

 i so hope its genuine but my spider senses are off the chart on this one. gutted for whoever has bought this.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: garry22 on December 02, 2013, 05:48:36 pm
Sadly Derek, I think you are right.

I was the target of an attempted scam on Autotrader (a van that was too good to be true!).

They have a pretty good scam guide. One of the things that was common was the location. It was normally miles away (like a Scottish island or the west of Ireland). If you cannot view the goods, then it's not worth taking a chance.
Title: Re: Dodgy Airflex on Ebay
Post by: stuart_clark on December 02, 2013, 06:18:30 pm
Do folk know that this machine is innorthern Ireland ?
 Not that easyto go and pick up !