Melgar - 25-8-2017 at 17:23
There's a common scam where someone will advertise a product or service of superior quality, then deliver one of slightly inferior quality. If anyone
complains, they're given a full refund. I read about a transportation company who would do two-day delivery instead of overnight for certain
customers, especially government customers. If there was ever a complaint, he'd give a full refund, no questions asked. On the face, this doesn't
seem to be a scam, but it's hard to quantify the productivity lost because someone needed something a day sooner, and so it's difficult to sue for
something like that. The trucking guy ended up making millions of dollars doing this, until he was arrested for it.
Well, this scam is extremely common on ebay among Chinese sellers. I just ordered a multimeter (model AN8008) and got a model ZT109 instead. They're
virtually identical, except the ZT109 doesn't have all the special replaceable leads that go with it, which is the main reason I wanted the AN8008.
Well, I complained, and guess what? Full refund, and I don't even have to return it! Now, I don't know if the seller will continue to keep this
misleading listing up, but it's item number 401386980938, and the seller name is "wowpartspro". Make sure if you order it, you find it by doing a
search for "AN8008", just so that from eBay's perspective, you were clearly misled.