What Happens When You Order A $29 Mini Laptop From A Facebook Ad?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- A while ago (link just below) I made a video exploring the many and varied scam ads appearing on Facebook, Instagram and other social media, and what happens if you report these scams (spoilers: nothing much).
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In the comments, a few people wondered what would actually happen if someone ordered one of the ludicrously low-price, high-spec laptops we looked at. Well, I wondered too, so let's find out! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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*FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:*
*Why did they send anything at all?* - why not just take the money and run?
There are a number of reasons, but most of them probably relate to _buying time._ If they present a tracking ID to PayPal or their credit card payment processor, and later, if they argue it was an honest picking error, it creates an air of credibility and is likely to extend the period in which they can continue running the scam, before complaints mount up and their site gets shut down.
*What is the actual laptop shown in the (stolen) footage and photos?* - could be"One Mix 2 Yoga" priced around the £600 to 700 mark at the time of this video.
damn, one hour ago?
Dad?
20 hrs ago
Packing error
Also, buying time so that you would no longer be eligible to ask for a refund after a certain time. For example ny bank has a 60 days period that you can ask for a refund. However, the full period is 13 months if proof can be provided such as emails with the seller, etc. +Paypal has its own refund policy so even if I were to be scammed I would always get my money back. Dunno why scammers still "exists" considering the above I mentioned
Meanwhile, the person who ordered a cheap pair of lady's sunglasses and a single facemask is filing a paypal dispute using a nice top of the line mini-laptop.
Lol
Lol
669 likes nice
Derp Barkus you said s word 😡😡😡😡
Brilliant
" Pls keep calm". Now that is professional customer support speech.
plz
plis
PLEEZ
pleeeessss
I like your channel name lol
"Pls keep calm" Very reassuring thing to receive from a business.
Yes, not please but "pls".
I was just about to comment the same thing. They’re supposed to be a professional company but they type like a child.
Pls wait patiently
Thy knw tht vwls rn't ncssry.
@@christopherbarker9313 manners pls they are profesionale, dont b rude
There should be a class action lawsuit against Facebook for not only allowing but encouraging these scamming ads on their site.
I deleted my FB account because of this BS. tired of seeing nothing but facebullshit ads.
if you still use facebook you are part of the problem
@@Magpy93 Agreed, which is why I haven't used facebook in nearly 2 years. The point still stands however.
@@TheOnlyCarupa Its been 6 years I left FB
They would just say: "noooo we did nuffin" and be declared as a victim and then they would make you a debt slave for FB. If they can lie straight to the us Congress without consequences, they can do pretty much as they want with you.
Why isn't Facebook held accountable for scamming adverts?
Exactly.
These scam ads pop up in my FB feed ALL THE TIME. I report them every single time and yet, they keep popping up.
Once you've seen one, you've seen them all. The ads literally have all the same components: ridiculously low price, limited time offer, bad English, tons of emoticons, video stolen from the original manufacturer, and tons of comments from all over the world.
Algorithms and they probably make money of the ads. I think scammers are taking advantage of the algorithms and it’s worse than any of us think.
@@spacecat3198 It probably all started with basic money laundering until people with no internet savvy started trying to buy obvious fake products...
Hi Larry
"We run advertisements, Senator." -Lizard Zucc
What happens when you contact hot local singles in your area? asking for a friend....
Google "There Are No Hot Singles In Your Area"
@@collinmclaren6608 good ol' Harold
Try plenty of fish. Where I met my wife
i genuinely thought they were real back when I was like 13 lol
Well this is what apps like Tinder and Happn do
To be honest, I'm surprised they actually took the time and effort to send you anything in the first place lol
A good rule of thumb: Whenever you order anything that's supposed to be really expensive for a really cheap price, you will get what you pay for.
Those sunglasses and face mask were not worth $29 + shipping.
What if the price is more expensive than it's original price, but u still get scammed
Not really, just be smart with your money and don't spend it on crap
Many scammers or sellers of knock off items have realized people are onto them so they started charging just under what the legitimate product would cost and tricking people into thinking its legitimate because its not priced to good to be true.
Unless it's second hand
Question is: Why doesn't Facebook ban these ads?
Oh wait, Money.
@treelon musk no.
@treelon musk what are the employee getting paid for?
Zucc
It's so the zucc can get more bread
@Intelligent Atheist No it's because money, I mean like there's even some people who will download a video from TH-cam and upload it on facebook and gets ads on it and gets alot of views then alot of profit without even putting that much effort into t.
"The laptop sure looks alot like sunglasses and a face mask."
"PLEASE REMAIN CALM"
*PLS
_Be rest assured_
Its a weird transformer
@@redyau_ I am so glad I found a reference to that in this comment section.
"Sorry, COVID-19 pandemic"
This should be retilted “How to get a free pair of cheap sunglasses”
Free? $29.99?
@@Cloudipy 😂yeah 👍🏼
And a coughed on face mask
@@BiggestNightmareJim nice
@@BiggestNightmareJim that's the real untapped market here.
My dad fell for a similar scam, clicking on an ad on Facebook. They want you to ship the junk they send back to China but it costs more to ship it back than for what you paid in the first place. The only way to get your money back usually is to dispute it on your credit card.
Just send a $3 letter with tracking.
Remember kids if it has emojis it’s a scam
✨ 😳 ✨
👌👈
Get the new XboxTop 360 hinge 🙌
Jk
OK redditor
@@jplarrivey6225 🐂💩
Orders 1 item, gets 2 items, still complains...
SHAKING MY HEAD
3 if you count the plastic bag
@@Nameless10949 5 f you count the paper on the glasses
@@Nameless10949 so it should be more bc not only one back
hahaha this reminds me once I was little I did a trade with my younger brother when we got some pocket money, I told him I can give you MORE money, what I did is I traded more pennies for big bucks.. we still laugh about it
Did you shake your head vigorously because it's in caps?
The really messed up part is that these scams are targeting old people that don’t know any better
Old people usually don't buy online at all, also old people don't use facebook or care about it.
@@eng3d I have a feeling you’re not on Facebook a lot, Facebook is usually the only social media that I see older people have lol.
@@eng3d Old people do use Facebook. Dead people don't.
@@eng3d Nah, FB is old person central abd they buy online all the time!
@@eng3d Yep old people do use Facebook because they've always been on there, the youth use Twitter and Instagram (probably some other ones too but I'm too old to know about them)
The fact that people actually click ads is completely incredible to me.
The only time I ever clicked an ad was for an indie hentai game that looked outstanding. It was outstanding. I have good judgement.
@@adog3129 what was it
Not me man, even for businesses that I know are legit. If something piques my interest I'd rather copy/paste the name, website or short description into a browser instead.
@@adog3129 noice
I always have ad-blockers on. Internet ads used to be small banners at the tops of pages. I miss them.
The more Facebook keeps these practices up, the less inviting it will become to actual advertisers, and in the end, they will destroy their own platform.
sounds great!
As it should
good riddance to facebook.
It's already starting sensible people are already starting to leave the platform. I've started occasionally seeing facebook ads. Those were never a thing before because they just assumed everyone had it. But I'm sure they have the numbers. They see people leaving. They tried to strong arm people that used the oculus platform, and now they're getting sued by the FTC and german government. I quit using the site about a year ago now (and all social media except for youtube and tumblr) and it was the best decision of my life.
@@Saplingbat youtube seems hellbent on following a similar path of self destruction. eventually they will eradicate and ban so much content that the only videos left will be for intellectual infants. everyone will have left for other less censorious platforms.
“Pls wait”
“Pls be patient”
“Pls don’t worry”
*Kalm*
@@Ak-gb4ms *Panik*
My English teacher REALLY likes saying pls.
"Pls be rest assured"
gooby pls
I had a situation where I "bought" something from a scam site, was given a tracking number for a UPS package going to one of the metalworking factories in my city, and ended up with nothing.
Disputed it through Paypal, and like with your Samsung transaction, Paypal sided with the scammer with basically the same attitude.
Being the sleuth that I am when I'm not being a sloth, I compiled evidence of the fraud and forwarded it to my bank. A week later, I had my money back via bank charge back.
When the scammers emailed him back they literally threw a “pls” in there 🤣
Kids this days
they aren’t kids they are 40 year old men with no jobs
It looks edited in
You know it's a Indian when someone from a "legit" business/company says "pls" or "pls sir" via email or over the phone.
@Rakyiv So "pls" is not something anyome would include in a professional email, duh
Aww, that was a bit disappointing at the end, I was hoping for a really crappy mini laptop, like a pocket calculator that runs BASIC or something. Still fun to watch!
I expected some custom rom shite with a 8 year old smartphone motherboard inside
It would've been mini mini laptop to fit in that Jiffy
Or the old Blackberry phone circa 2006
I was expecting one of those Windows CE based netbooks they used to sell.
For those who don't know: Windows CE is an operating system by Microsoft but not related to Windows and its user interface looks like a flash parody of Windows XP.
Here's a video link: th-cam.com/video/nCHHAFyp9I0/w-d-xo.html
Damn you got me rolling
I keep getting cute clothing ads on social media and, oh, are they tempting! The prices are a dead giveaway though. Wouldn’t even cover the cost of the fabric. I wish I was better at locating the real product they are copying.
I have never understood why anyone buys clothing online. I never buy brand new clothing from fast fashion retailers and when I do purchase clothing instead of just mending what I already own, I buy it second hand and in person. Why would anyone buy clothing brand new without seeing or trying on the clothing?! Buying clothing online just makes no bloody SENSE to me!
@@katanah3195 because it's easier. For example, I have Executive function disorder/ADHD, so I haveproblems with starting, organizing, planning, or completing tasks. I also have short term memory problems. There's no way I could get around to mending my own clothes.
Secondhand, the clothes I want are usually just as expensive and never in the size I want. I usually want something specific. So I go online, and I'm a pretty standard size, I know what suits me it's easier. Click - never have to think about it again until it comes. I usually keep clothes for years, I'm not rich and I try to make things last.
I can't tell how many people I know that just won't bother with a dispute, or even the emails you sent. That's what the scammers bet on. And it works.
"Pls don't worry".
Just by that you can guess it is a scam already.
oi skrub, venice
"Pls calm down" yep, definitely not a scam going on 😂
Emperor Crimson *king crimson
just like amazon support
You have 999likes i made it 1k
I just love how Facebook is totally ok with hosting scammer ads and even obvious phishing ads, but when I try to create my ads they ask me to confirm my ID, and then they just tell me "u suspicious, no ads for u", and their support just ignores me.
they dont make enough money from you
I tried to sell a Vic 20 on Facebook Marketplace, and Facebook blocked it and referred me to a section in their terms of use that prohibits the sale of illegal streaming devices, whatever that means. I mean you CAN technically stream things on a Vic 20, but it wasn't exactly at the forefront of piracy in 2021.
Bro I totally get your pain. I spend countless hours trying to contact Facebook support to allow me to set up an instagram shop but they told me to fuck off and there's nothing they can do. Honestly one of the shittiest companies in the world.
Lmao
That is because you did not pay the bribe...
Even if I knew that I was buying from scammers and intentionally made a transaction with them as an experiment, I'd still be pissed that they had the nerve to send me sunglasses and a cheap facemask in place of a mini laptop. I'd probably be happier receiving nothing.
watching these videos is a great way to remind myself how very susceptible i am to advertisements. even fully knowing it's a scam, and watching you break down all of the very obvious signs of how extremely sketchy these things are, there's still part of my brain going "but wait.... what if it's real"
thank you for reminding me to be skeptical, and also satisfying my curiosity so i dont go out and buy these things myself just to see what happens
"Pls don't worry"
I have never been more worried by reading that
dun worry Arbitor, its all gon be k
Danger Will Robinson!!!!!!!
pls pls don't be mad at us owo your laptwop will bwe at your hwouse in 2 dawys
well, I recieve "don't worry from every Chinese seller (including honest ones) on Aliexpress if I asking about delivery... Or even if I didn't write them anything
All of these fake company names. Just like CoinSquirt!!!!
But CoinSquirt isn't fake!
Note to self: Buy the URL and LLC name for MoneyPurple.
Idk why but "Sterdio" made me lol
"The Soul Called Mr John Warosa, LLC"
Richard Eadon “Shopuss” got me
I deal with a lot of PayPal disputes (I own a used clothing resell business where I buy from a lot of untrustworthy sellers) if someone sells you a fake product or a bait n switch like they did here you can always win the case without having to ship back by calling them and telling them it’s a scammer. It’s because a scammer will respond and “accept a return” as long as you ship back. So unless you call and explain that’s what you’ll be forced to do
A legit business on Facebook Ads would be more surprising than finding out you have a step sister and she just so happens to be stuck in your washing machine.
Just like that stimulus payment all the near-plebians are ranting and raving about...I haven't seen one red cent. WWE is more real than this pink-unicorn stimulus payment.
Wait, I've seen this one before
*Soap intensifies
I was looking for a switch and found one on a scam site called "store name here"
Sounds legit 😊 I bet "Store Name Here" will outsell "Gap Inc." (actual large clothing store chain) this year.
It's legit
Bottom text
@Evil Koala I'm glad he did, i've never heard of the store.
@Evil Koala yeah i havent heard of gap too.
@Evil Koala Of course he had to explain its not like its a recognizable brand like "Store name here"
Damn I was hoping for a shite 5th hand dell laptop from 2001 with a crap aftermarket battery.
This was my expectation, and I was somehow STILL disappointed.
I expect those Laptop toys You can find in toy store or gas station.
I'm clearly too credible for the 2020s, I was expecting one of those we crappy Android devices you can win as the "grand prize" on arcade games in motorway services. Why bother shipping anything that even slightly resembles the item ordered when you can just scam people, pay Facebook their 30% and bail?
I was expecting one of those windows CE ones you can get off AliExpress
@@PKMartin I won a iPhone and sold it to buy a Samsung. Probably a bad idea but it's nice though
@@PKMartin Kind of like a dictatorship, the rich people don't feel like working, because all their hard work is going to lazy people who don't want to work, and the lazy people will never find the need to work as the money is just handed to them....
a few years ago i fell victim to a place called budgetappliances and lost $400 on a deep chest freezer i never recieved... sad thing the bank wasnt able to reverse the payment for some reason :(
your doing a great service bringing information about these sorts of things to people
For some reason lol. For 400 id hope you know the reason
This reminds me of the time I ordered a vary nice black ribbon choker and they sent me a dog collar for small dogs that had a leaf charm on it
"When will my order ship?"
"Please keep calm."🤣
pls* its even more hilarious
More like "Pls stay calm" 🤣😅😂
"Sir, I'm gonna need you to calm tf down"
"I understand your frustration"
.....
Yup! I have a friend that falls for these obvious scams all the time. He ordered a 16 ft x 32 ft above ground swimming pool for $80., including shipping. After emailing back and forth for over a month wondering where his pool was, he received a dollar store pair of sunglasses. He did the same with an exterior door, $50. shipping included. Again after a month or so of going aback and forth with the shipper, he received a 3 x 5 inch page of stickers. He paid $100. for a "Living Doll" about 3 months ago that "had to be made and assembled exactly to his specifications". We really put pressure on the shipper, he received a bogus tracking number and every time he emailed the reply stated his order was in a different city/town in China until after about 7 or 8 of these it was said to be in Wuhan (during the height of the covid-19 pandemic).
If you are looking for something for nothing you will end up getting nothing for something.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to get stung 3 times? Whatever happened to fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?
@@SPAZTICCYTOPLASM Eh I guess that S*x doll was tempting but I guessed he never learned
@@pauljerome01 OK but there are legit good dolls for 100 bucks if you know where to look granted they're pretty small.
Nicely said at the end.
There are about three or so extremely different types of dolls I’ve heard referred to as living dolls. I’m curious which type it was in this case.
This is so true. I would never order anything from a FB or TH-cam add. They are just all scams now. They should really do something about it.
Great video, Facebook should be held accountable for advertising misinformation
I was hoping you would get a cheap little LCD toy like one of those laptops from the Turkish newspapers.
I know, I was really hoping to see a little Fisher-Price laptop toy, hastily spray-painted black
Turkish?
I don't know if there is a global name for Turkish newspaper coupon stuff but yeah, I once bought a toy laptop with 29 coupons. Coupons are obtained by buying the newspaper. It was kind of exciting waiting for it to arrive and stuff back then. but I don't see coupon thingy anymore nowadays.
@@raspberrynani No it was more like this: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTXvSq03uCTP4-htbP0npI3K-57Twjui-lOTlwih46_LSO0VkuB&usqp=CAU
@@Ultiminati If Ertugrul Ghazi had one of these we'd all be speaking Dervish....
it's a numbers game for these scammers.
1000 orders
900 disputes
500 charge backs.
500 x $34 = $17000 x 10 fake stores...
Exactly so
You forgot the expense of cheap sunglasses & face masks lol
For a life sentence in Chinese jail? Hell no
But jail tho.
@@HistoricalWeapons prison not jail
Honestly I’ve only found your channel in the last couple of days and it’s brilliant. So informative and funny amusing content too, hats off to you
Thank you for showing us. And sorry you went through that junk
After watching this, I realized that I almost fell for a Facebook ad scam. There was an ad for really cool looking high top shoes, with rainbow dragons on them. Everything I ever wanted. I didn't end up buying them, because I didn't have any extra money. I saved a link to the page where the shoes are for later. Looking at the page now, this ad was an obvious scam. 😭
if you still have the design in head there are people making such stuff
you should look for that design specifically, 100% chance the ad copied it from someone's store.
If you have a picture of it, you can put in in aliexpress to search for it, so if it was a drop shipping website, it most likely comes from there anyway.
Thanks guys! I'll be searching for them far and wide. With shoes this unique, it shouldn't be too hard. ❤️
Mr. Mr why fuck you? You little shit
Now i know where Kitboga got his eyewear.
🤣
hahahaha xD
@@eskimo4130 XF
I’m thrilled to see more people mentioning him around these parts. He really deserves the influx of attention he’s getting!
It's his origin story, he was scammed with a pair of sunglasses and set off on a one man crusade against scammers.
Very nice video! Thanks for the effort and good work.
Even if it was real, at 30 pounds it would have to be one of the worst electronic items ever created. My sons fake Vtech tablet has more processing power 😂
Well, I think an Amazon fire is about $30 USD and it's... I mean it's an awful tablet but it's certainly usable. It just does that by showing you ads and getting your hooked into amazon services. You are the product.
At this point any cultured scammer will know to not reply to "Mange Tout"
"cultured scammer" Are you familiar with the robot expression, 'Does not compute'? ;)
Or any scammer that's French
eat all
@@peterjames5887 oxymoron if I ever heard one
Smarter scammer I guess
Or to reply to them and send them a real product. Cheap advertising!
2:50 "pls feel free to contact us" very formal i must say
Pls keep calm
Pls wait patiently
Pls feel free to contact us
very professional business practices there
Only thing I've bought off social media was an iPhone case off Instagram, actually showed up super fast, was as described and they even gave me a free extra case, was super impressed since I thought for sure it would be a scam
Absolute legend! We've all been there questioning if it's real, worth it and excitement, thanks for debunking!
The exact same thing happens on Amazon. I found a store a while back that was clearly a scam, items that were $1 that had no business being that price. Took a chance, nothing ever shipped, obviously. Amazon refunded, but absolutely refused to answer how a store that was so clearly a scam with 1000+ items managed to make it into their marketplace. Buyer beware EVERYWHERE.
Wow thanks for this video. It helped me realize that I was scammed in this same way. I ordered an item that was around $35, received a cheap pair of sunglasses. Except I opened a PayPal dispute and because the seller responded with tracking info, paypal told me to return the sunglasses to china at my expense. I refused to do so and they settled in the scammer's favor. So thank you for allowing me to realize it was a scam and not a real oversight on the seller's part
Send them a $3 letter with tracking. Payback's a b!tch.
+1 for answering in the thumbnail and not persuading people to click on video
This is amazing. Thanks for the upload
There should be a actual Cyber law, very poorly when a large company is promoting a fake advert, they should be held accountable.
their emails sound like they picked up a business terminology book and skimmed through the pages picking random words
Interspersed with the very professional sounding word "pls"
LOGISTICS
Reminds me of the TV show "Thanks" where one of the puritans had a child and the other family asked what they named it and they said "We just opened the Bible to a random page and put our finger down and picked the word that came up!" "And what did you name your child?" "Oxen."
I always thought about things like these. Well thank you for making a video about it.
I clicked on your video simply for the honest title. Thank you for being legitimate!
Also, a great flowing video, look forward to watching more.
"pls keep calm"????? What company says that????
Example: thank you for calling target i apologize for your order not showing up yet, please stay calm and don't panic!
Customer: wait wut?????
Facebook should really be held accountable by the ads they show on their platform. It’s pathetic that they censor so much stuff their users post, yet seem to allow anyone to announce anything with them without any sort of vetting process.
The scammers pay well so Facebook likes to help them advertise whatever product they want.
Probably also helps Facebook collect more data on users about their buying habits so they can push more scam ads on them.
Great experiment for the better of society. I'm sure you got your money's worth with the amount of views. Well deserved thank you
It's true and I tell pretty much everybody the same thing. If it's advertised on Facebook, just ignore it. It's either a scam or somebody selling you something that you can find on amazon but marked up. I can think of maybe two instances where I got an ad on facebook and decided that I wanted it if it were good - and that was only after I left it and did more research completely independently.
This was interesting, useful, and something!
*atomic shrimp intensifies*
I read your comment as he said that
We so love our somethings
Before you even showed the packaging that arrived, I literally said "sunglasses?" 🤣
I reported an ad like this a few month ago. Today I got the feedback "Thank you, the add was indeed against our rules/standards/whatever and was removed." However, the fake shop was also gone, since they life cycle of these scam ads and shops is shorter than Facebook's/Instagram's reaction time.
My husband ordered a window AC from one of these sketchy websites. I had a UPS tracking number that worked and it showed that the item had been delivered--in my city, but where? Because it certainly wasn't at my home. The tracking description also said " fabric".
UPS said that they cannot reveal the exact address of delivery and didn't care when I tried to warn them about the fraud committed by the sender.
Paypal disputes are such a joke that 90% of times they side with the scammers.
Is this claim based on actual statistics?
@@bioLarzen The scammers show them that they mailed "something" and then Paypal close the dispute.
I feel like that with a lot of disputes, not only on PayPal, but even reporting things on Instagram or FB when they're harmful or downright against guidelines. Every time I try to report, open a dispute, anything, it just goes in the favour of the other person. Because THEY are making the content, getting views, the platform you use doesn't care about customer service and user experience, they just care about profits
@@psixi7230 I"m not disputing that Paypal isn't the model of a customer-first minded attitude - just the 90%. that seems way too high.
@@bioLarzen and of course that's not based on actual stats, it's my claim from my personal bias due to my personal bad experiences, and the experiences of others i know. I've dealt with paypal disputes a few times from buying stuff on ebay. Only once did they actually side with me, when the seller gave a fake tracking code.
Damn, I was really excited at the prospect of seeing some incredibly low quality early 2000s refurbished laptop with Windows 10 installed that would struggle to meet the bare minimum performance benchmarks, what a disappointment :(
Or running Windows 98!
@@dx1450 Nah, it would be running Vista
A VIC-20 with missing keys !!!
Thank you for this!
I've been well aware of these scams, I just clicked on this video out of curiosity, I'm really glad the PayPal dispute was resolved in your favour though
I ordered several power tools last year that normally sell for $200 to $500 For the Identical Price of $19.95 thru EBay "just to see what would happen". EBay Customer Service is incredibly fast & courteous! I had to wait while packages were delivered to Anchorage Alaska, Miami Florida, Las Vegas & Minnesota, even tho my Account Address is in SoCal.
EBay Refunded EVERYTHING & the store(s) were removed. I followed up for a couple weeks, targeting stores selling at the Target Price until they dropped off the map.
I had that on amazon last month. a £80 router going for £15, I thought this has to be a scam and it was. Amazon gave me a refund.
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for your service!
my dad ordered a table saw off a facebook ad, about a month later, his "table saw" showed up, in a small tan envelope
it was a glass bead bracelet
he got his money back, still has his "table saw"
You are lucky, I don't use eBay anymore after they DIDN'T remove a scam seller who sold fake merch and I had to go to my credit card company to get the refund.
I don’t know of a single site that removes scam sellers. It is really sad. Amazon and Newegg definitely don’t.
I think a good way to describe that naming convention is "baby's first attempt at SEO".
😂
This video popped up on my YT list to watch. Thanks for this information, though I never buy anything off of Facebook or You Tube. Since i am now on You Tube Premium, those ads have gone away. take care
my grandmother made the mistake of ordering shirts online recently. they were the entirely wrong size. she tried sending them back (to china) and was told it would cost over $700usd to ship two shirts. sp the trash got two new shirts and my grandmother learned a lesson in online purchases.
Dont order anything from any website that offers no insurance
That's why it's always a good idea to buy clothing in person in retail stores rather than online
@@Connie_TinuityError Or just buy from a reputable retailer
@@Stettafire Yeah I know, but if you buy in person in a physical store, it's way, _way_ easier and much less hassle to return the clothing
Oh. After falling for one of these I started getting DHL scam letters sent to my house saying I owed them money.
Fell for one of these too
"1 cool laptop thingy please B)"
*SUNGLAS*
LEL
SUNGLAS
MASC
*SUNGLAS*
Its a COMPUTER sunglass like Tony Stark used to wear..
Thank you for this video. My dad has recently entered the internet world including Facebook and he keeps insisting that I purchase these bloody items from Facebook no matter how much I tell him they're scams. I've just shown him your video so that he can see what the results generally are. Hopefully that'll be enough to convince him.
Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy your sun glasses.
May I meet your father? I have the perfect deal for him!!! 😛
Anytime I see an ad on facebook that I might be interested in, I just refuse to click on it/buy it, there are just too many scams and dodgy looking ads to lose my trust. They have to do something about these.
I see Paypal's dispute process is still as messed up as it was 15 years ago.
Yes and no. Had to do it two times and once a scammer tried it against me. I won all without any problems. Just one or two mails/their contact form.
I'd say it's a mixed bag, in my experience Paypal customer service has always been helpful. They have some weird rules though, for example if you buy multiple items and one is missing from the delivery, you have to send everything back to get a refund. Usually it's best to avoid all those bargain deals from China or whatever, it's all crap anyways and you will most likely never get your money back if you ask for a refund.
@@IkeFoxbrush "it's all crap anyways". Completely untrue. You have to know what you are buying & do some research into what you are buying.
it's horrible
@@iaincowell9747 No, its 100% true. 99% of stuff bought online is utter crap.
Facebook WOULD care if anything on the ad even remotely displayed or hinted at nudity, such as a drawing of a semi-clad lady showing what could be interpreted as a breast. That is the only thing that will make them wake up and take action. Scammers, people beating others up, ... all OK with FB.
Facebook legit has groups and pages basically indecent photos of minors, and they dont say its against terms and service.
Meh. I've reported empty profiles with 2 boobs under a face as a photo and a bio "want hot steaming s3x?", and facebook replies "we didnt find anything against our policies".
Only rarely do they actually take action against people.
I've gotten Wish ads on Facebook of a woman on her knees looking at a massive dick with a surprised look on her face as part of what I can only assume was some sort of male enhancement ad, since it was in Chinese. I reported it to Facebook and received the same reply that OmikronWeapon did, "We didn't find anything against our policies in this ad" with no further way to continue the complaint. So no, they don't care about nudity, they just care about money.
I once reported a comment which was a link to bestiality porn (you could tell from the thumbnail image which had a dog f***ing a woman, and the keywords in the URL), Facebook came back with "this did not go against our community standards".
They only removed it after I appealed that decision with "ARE YOU F***ING BLIND?" and someone obviously took another look at what they'd obviously clicked as acceptable before and realised it wasn't.
I think Facebook moderation is too lazy or Facebook hire too few staff and give them unrealistic targets for how many report cases to settle for these things to happen.
i called a friend the F-word as a joke, 30-day block
at leastyou got a reply, I did not receiver any kind of explanation whatsoever. I ordered from a page/shop advertising on Facebook also. it costs me 20$ worth, the items should've been 2 powerbanks. instead I got a cheap powerbank worth no more than 5$ and no reply even thru the supposed email of the shop. 😤
Thank you and keep exposing scammers 👍😎
You took one for the team, thanks mate. I hate the fact that the scammer made some money though.
They just send you some crap to make it look like they sent you the actual product. Thus making the process harder to get a refund but lucky not on this occasion.
Atomic shrimp: when will it ship ?
Scammers: PLS stay calm 👉🏽👈🏽
I thought you were shipping him with scammers and realised I need to go outside for once
@@arizonagreenbee a breath of fresh air would do you good my friend
@@PabloHernandez-tf4do it probably would but I much prefer my dark cave of a room
@@arizonagreenbee just make sure you eat some vegetables in that abyss for me
@@PabloHernandez-tf4do will do! :)
"It's a scam because is obviously a scam, that product name is a red flag, the website is a scam... So, it's a scam". Thank you for the information, I haven't could realize myself
I work for a small business, this is why having a physical store is still relevant in the online age. We promote that we have a physical store you can visit this is a huge trust metric for customers. No physical location means people won't trust your advertisement.
I got an honest question about the comment regarding it not being advisable to use a mask that was handled. I guess the risk is that it might be contaminated. Wouldn't the time it took to get to you be enough to kill the virus?
It's like a half life curve, so there is no guarantee, also, the stats you commonly see are generally for an item sitting in the open air. Sealed in a plastic bag is a different matter. Either way, not a great idea to use a mask when the provenance is suspect
@@AtomicShrimp Actually a legend for responding to his comment, tbh
Fun fact: the mask was worn by the sun glasses shipper - to demonstrate he was practicing good hygiene while picking the order from the dumpster in an industrial park.
Potentially yes, but not necessarily-- furthermore, there's much heartier infectious material out there than COVID-19, so you can't rule out just about any illness. Under certain circumstances, wearing a used/handled mask could even give you stuff like Hepatitis.
@Christopher it won't. If background uv killed the varus it would be so proliferative. It can survive on hard surfaces in sunlight for over 3 days, that's why many people wash their groceries too
"Pls dont worry" in a business mail
Plz
Less copying and pasting for busy employees, please takes longer than pls. I'm sure that's it. 👌🤣✌️
I imagine an exhausted and depressed worker packaging those items. Not knowing or caring what you really ordered but ensuring themselves a bowl of rice to eat.
I don't understand why PayPal hasn't cracked down on this yet.
I saw a really cool looking midi controller on a Facebook ad for what appeared to be a good price. A minute or two after ordering it, something triggered alarm bells in my head, and I did some digging. Turns out the item in question didn't even exist yet, and the manufacturer had a warning right on their site about it.
Even with me discovering this minutes later, and the very clear warning on the manufacturer's site, PayPal refused to refund my payment. The seller shopped me some garbage usb speaker, and just like your other video, PayPal said I'd have to ship it back to get a refund.
I've seen dozens of ads like this on social media. Really gross that these corporations are profiting off of it instead of shutting it down.
The one dislike is the scammer that found your channel.
The other 3 are John Warosa, Barosa, and Mr. Karim lol
Wrong bro, it wasn't me ;)
Your voice is so calming
Pls keep calm.
Yeah the last part is so true every time i see a ad of something that could be cool on social media especially tiktok or insta i don't buy it out of principal because it always looks so scammy. I wish they would do a better job at regulating that stuff more 😔
Social media should be accountable for all the scam ads they host in their platforms and all the money they get removed. It's just unreal how they don't care about this kind of stuff, letting vulnerable people fall for this bullshit
Wow I didnt see the Samsung scam yet buy I'm surprised PayPal sided with the scammer, I always call them directly to either make sure they pay me back for the shipping or have a shipping label sent to me, I've only had to pay shipping once because didn't bother them for the shipping feeling grateful I got the refund at all for DVDS that turned out to be Faulty Bootlegs, but since then I've decided not to back down and I'm on them immediately. PayPal is great but you have to be persistent about the return shipping.
I think PayPal is just trying to make sellers feel more secure on their platform as well. A lot of sellers are reluctant to use PayPal because it is too easy for customers to scam them by claiming they didn't receive the item or the item wasn't as advertised. If the product is returned to the seller, then the customer can't scam them for free stuff.
I do wish PayPal would make the seller pay return shipping in most cases, though.
Paypal did this to me too. They sided with the seller and told me to work out the problem with them lol. I even called
I have never failed to get my money back with PayPal. And I have asked many times.
In my case, the scammer did not even respond to PayPal, yet PayPal *still* sided with the scammer against me.
you should collab with jim browning.....you two would bring world peace and the end of scams full stop. haha
AtomicShrimp did mention Jim in a video, but it would be so cool if they did a collab!!!
They would be amazing together as a team. Jim Browning's name is enough to strike fear into the heart of the most seasoned scammer.
Agreed they would make such a good team . Jim could find out where they are and atomic could poison them with nettle soup and then troll them on youtibe afterwards
I'd love to see this colab too!
For a while I though they were the same guy tbh
Honestly wished people paid more attention to the obvious. I work in IT and it’s frustrating how people fall for these scams.
Thankyou for trying it out for us.