Made In China Scam

[retired_member32]

Anybody have any advice about being scammed from Made In China, i requested a price for some electrical goods, i was sent an email with prices and thought yeah not a bad price, so i did some checking through google...."company name scam" to see if anything came up...all clear, went onto the companies house register in Hong Kong...all clear, so purchased some £1500 worth of goods, a month later my package arrived and there were 2 usb drives worth approximately £5....the person cancelled the msn/skype feed and will not answer any emails, is there anything i can do to retreive the cash ? i paid via business bank account so not sure on that aspect...????

any help would be appreciated

Mark

 

[orchardapple]

pop over to thewholesaleforums.co.uk and take a search but if you've paid via bank transfer then theres little/nothing you can do unfort

 

[Systreg]

Mark, which site is it, made-in-china.com, madeinchina.com or another?

 

[retired_member32]

yeah made-in-china.com !!

 

[Systreg]

yeah made-in-china.com !!

See what they say on their Twitter: https://twitter.com/madeinchina_b2b

 

[retired_member32]

i'm hoping to go through a small claims court in china...looking through google they couldnt even be bothered to change the invoice they sent me...

 

[tifosi]

Hope you get some resolution. Leaves a really nasty feeling for a small entrepreneur. Looking to start a couple of online stores next year and looking for reliable honest suppliers if just painful.

Where to go, who to trust, how to get consistency? All shot through with issues,

 

[retired_member32]

yes not a good feeling, i think it is corrupt from top to bottom, i enquired about some items using the contact form embedded on the site, and looking back i received about five emails even though i only sent two enquiries...:shock:

 

[Aegean]

A friend of mine here on Rhodes "bought" 2 TV's of these chaps and they just simply never turned up.

Just before he placed the order he asked me if I wanted one as it was a "great deal"...good job I didn't. He lost about 1,000 Euros.

 

[donton]

I could write a book on the different types of scams that arise from these sites. You're not the first and won't be the last, and unless you paid via credit card or PayPal I doubt you'll see your money again.

I deal with importing various goods from China, and the electronics market is certainly the most rife with scammers (although they all are to an extent). Even if the items do arrive, in most cases they won't be as amazing as the seller made out.

My advice would be to take it on the chin (it's easy for me to say, I know), and look for a more secure site to purchase from in future. One site I always send people to is AliExpress.com - which in my opinion is the safest of all the Chinese B2B sites out there. I've used it when sourcing products on a couple of occasions and the safe guards they have in place make it tricky for scammers to operate on there.

It's also worth remembering that anything that appears too good to be true definitely is, especially where China is concerned.

When you do find a reliable supplier don't forget to ensure the products you're bringing in are CE tested and so on (where required) - paying for CE testing adds quite a few hundred pounds onto the price of the goods but it's a legal requirement.

 

[retired_member32]

thanks for the advice....so how do you receive 5 emails from only two enquiries do they send the emails to friends or is it made-in-china that distribute the emails far and wide ?

 

[Ghengis]

I have been trading with China for 14 years and it amazes me that someone would do a bank transfer to someone that you have not met, don't speak the same language. If you are just spending a few hundred £'s just take the chance but when you are spending a lot more then maybe you should go and visit the factories to see for yourself. I will be there in a few weeks.

Norman

 

[peter_w]

thanks for the advice....so how do you receive 5 emails from only two enquiries do they send the emails to friends or is it made-in-china that distribute the emails far and wide ?

Isn't made-in-china.com just a website that connects buyers with sellers?

 

[retired_member32]

well it supposed to be a b2b site...but i think there is something a bit deeper

 

[Nyams Josh]

It advisable when transacting online payments should be made via paypal. That way a person is able to file a claim of having being conned.

 

[bulkcorn]

I once got scammed like that on Alibaba.com some 4 odd years ago. Paid for some 24 pairs of Jeans and only 2 pairs arrived. I think I lost a few hundred pounds. Alibaba couldn't help.

Never again! :lol: If I wanted to buy anything from China, I'd fly there! LOL! Lots of people get scammed this way unexpectedly as many people think you can only get scammed when you send money to a certain African nation!

 

[boxfish]

This is a really interesting and funny documentary that shows even if you fly there you will probably still get ripped off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_n4pTMJLnE

The 'kitchen gangster' used to live down the road from me, I used to train in his gym - quite the character

Well worth a watch but it is on for an hour

 

[retired_member32]

the problem i have with this is, firstly i contacted the seller via Made-in-china.com with a contact form on there site, secondly they are registered on the companies house equivalent ? thirdly when i received emails in my inbox i wasn't likely going to be suspicious because i was expecting it !!!

and i was still ripped off