i Series $1500 Amazon.com..

[ZoliHonig]

Got your attention, huh?

Well...

I was looking through amazon.com and clicked the "3 used and new" link.

It brought me here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/B00007EPJ6/all/ref=dp_pb_a/104-3269576-2337521

Probably a scam, but I guess these guys find new ways every day.



[8]-Zoli[8]

[macgeek]

Yup "he" has a biz partner in england or some place, and you need to ship money there.. yadda yadda yadda. Scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, (wonderful scam, beautiful scam!)

Jonathan

Segway - "Let's Roll"
Centaur - "Lets Roll on all fours"
www.segwaygeek.com

[ZoliHonig]

I sent him an email:

Regading your segway sale on amazon for $1499.00, is it possible to pick up the item from you instead of getting it shippped?

And is this a stock thing or just 2 used ones?

Thanx

And this is what I got back

Hello,
I received your email regarding my Item.
The product is in perfect condition,with no scarches on it,no dammage.The price for the item with shipping included, is 1500 $. I have for sale more units.
All the manuals and the original documents are in English.It is
made for US market and has US specs on it (manual and cd's). .
He will receive the TITLE,,owner manualAND THE PAPER WITH 3 YEARS WARRANTY...
The product is in Europe, U.K. ,and it will be shipped from here on my expence so,please REPLY WITH YOUR NAME AND SHIPPING ADDRESS IN YOUR NEXT EMAIL.
Shipping will be done via FedEx and it will take no more then 2 days.I have a friend at fedex who will manage me a low price shipping and I assumed that it is from me to pay for shipping it.When I will shipp it,I will declare it as a gift so that you will pay no cusoms when you will receive it and for this it will be delivered directly to your address.
Also, I have to let you know that I want a proof that you have all the money availble for this deal as I will shipp it in the same day or next day morning ,after you proove to me that you are the real buyer.
The most important thing in all my activity here is that I am affiliated at Amazon Square Trade , I have a a purchase protection account for 10000$ and I assume you know what this means.So,the finacial part of this deal will be manage by them.
Let me know if this is ok with you,so that we can move forward with this deal!
Thanks




[8]-Zoli[8]

[Hauptagon]

Ooh, I can't stand this kind of stuff. I had a very close call a couple years back buying an ultralight (small plane), and my bank wound up catching something with a check that was sent to me and issued an investigation.

-Justin

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Stan671]

Considering that the Segway HTs are assembled in New Hampshire, I don't see how one in Europe could possibly be a bargain. I would have to have been built in NH and shipped to Europe with taxes, duties, VAT, etc.

So, either this is an outright scam and there are no machines or they are stolen.

Stan Dobrowski

[Burke]

Zoli, thank you for posting this, because it's something that came up at Segway Orange County's sale this past weekend. One of the first persons to drive up Saturday morning was a very nice lady probably in her 60's who told me right off the bat that she was getting a brand new Segway through Amazon for $1500 and it will be delivered next week. She said it was through "Amazon Marketplace" and she'd had some sort of bid in for it for quite a while. (I don't know how that stuff works.) She had recently "renewed" her bid, and was so happy to have gotten this message that she was about to receive a Segway.

I told her I didn't believe it was possible, no matter WHAT the circumstances were, and that it certainly sounded like a scam. She hoped it wasn't and was convinced it was coming from Beverly Hills. She is trying to do it with her American Express card and will have some recourse with them, but I bet this guy won't accept AE.

I'm sure you can imagine the temptation for me to invite her to leave and get her training from whoever is selling her this Segway, but I just couldn't do it. I could not picture this not-so-young woman trying to get on and off a Segway all by herself, so we did the on and off basics--nothing approaching a real training session. I asked who was going to train her, and she thought no one.

We all talked later and figured she was probably going to receive a brand new Q, and at least now she'd been on a real Segway and would realize she'd been had.

Last week two ladies took home a Segway under our Home for the Holidays promotion, enjoyed it, brought it back, and said they could buy it cheaper on ebay (despite our very heavy discounting). Bye, bye ladies.

This Internet crap sucks.

Janice

[Florida Ever-Glides]

The dis-jointed marketing by LLC makes it very difficult to even 'give them away'...

Tom Jacobson
http://www.floridaever-glides.com