This has to be a scam?

[Shopgeezer]

Has anybody else seen this? It has been floating around Facebook for awhile.

https://www.vvioue.com/products/lat...HKhHqqPVXu1dWlivPw_aem_7rTX1iTHvq6vkLpkg_cNjg

 

[GreenTwin]

I have seen a recent scam where they send you a nice photo that matches the photo in the advertisement, and that is all you get (a photo of a lathe).

The scammers are getting bold these days.

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[Shopgeezer]

Very Cute. I wouldn't doubt that it is just that. There is a similar ad for a V8 kit. I suppose that they send you a picture of the engine too. Maybe I could send them back a nice picture of a policeman.

 

[GreenTwin]

Typically out of asia, from what I have seen, so long drive to arrest them.
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[SmithDoor]

Has anybody else seen this? It has been floating around Facebook for awhile.

https://www.vvioue.com/products/lat...HKhHqqPVXu1dWlivPw_aem_7rTX1iTHvq6vkLpkg_cNjg

Sometimes as read everthing the shipping is outrageous.

Great price but get the lathe or drill press the shipping and handling is more than the cost from Amazon or Walmart with free shipping.
Since about 2020 I started see this scam.

I have seen on Ebay too.
Sometime it seller getting around the Ebay fees or just scammer.

I would see face if showed at there door step and hand them cash and I want the $100.00 lathe

Dave

 

[SmithDoor]

The latest one is on Amazon probably on Walmart and others Is returned, selling damaged or manufactured flaw items. If add said that upfront not big deal but trying to pass as new is a scam.
I will buy damaged, manufacture flaw or a return if I know that fact.

Lie with free return they getting back yesterday
FYI It happened to me yesterday now UPS has the item

Dave

 

[timo_gross]

Maybe they are simply after your E-mail address and shipping address they can sell those for a dollar or two.
If you never receive anything, what are you going to do. Hire some lawyer to chase down 60 USD?

So everyone who bothers with a 60 USD mini lathe, is highly probably an easy victim to buy more useless crap. (easy customers)
Make for 50, ship for 100, sell for 300. (customer unboxes first time, after the waranty expired and puts it on top of his thredmill next to the fitness stepper and the heating pillow (that almost caused a fire))

I guess shipping a what my friend says is a "hardinge knock off" will cost 30 times of what they claim for that mini lathe.

@Shopgeezer: If you pay upfront I will send you one to Canada (but you have to pay the machine, shipping and paperworks and you will have to see how import regulations are in Canada.... haha.... )

https://www.cyclematic.com/en/product/ctl-618evs-toolroom-lathe

p.s.This week I paid about 2 USD per kg of hot rolled vanilla flavor steel (give or take), if product is cheaper than raw material suspicion is adviseable.

 

[Mark_1984]

You’ll get something, perhaps a plastic toy lathe, then they have proof of delivery, and your credit card details.
No way are you going to get a lathe for $60!

 

[Shopgeezer]

Typically out of asia, from what I have seen, so long drive to arrest them.
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Maybe we could arrest Zuckerberg instead. Facebook never takes these ads down no matter how much you complain.

 

[NapierDeltic]

Great improvement in cost efficiency over Vevor same MX-210V lathe:
https://eur.vevor.com/metal-lathe-c...-resistant-metal-turning-great-p_010430221877

 

[Richard Hed]

Has anybody else seen this? It has been floating around Facebook for awhile.

https://www.vvioue.com/products/lat...HKhHqqPVXu1dWlivPw_aem_7rTX1iTHvq6vkLpkg_cNjg

Of course it's a scam.

 

[GreenTwin]

Sometimes it gets confusing, because people purchase bridges in England, and move them to the desert in the USA.
So the line "I got a bridge I can sell you; will be perfect for the middle of the desert" is not out of the realm of reality.
The truth can be very strange sometimes, but I agree, that lathe advertisement is a scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)

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[PeterDRG]

I had one recently with Alexpress. A tool box was supposed to be coming. A box cutter turned up. Oddly the value changed to just 15 bucks which was all that Ali refunded.

 

[GreenTwin]

I got a very official looking invoice a few days ago for $500.00, for what looks exactly like State-required paperwork/fees.
Very official looking state seal, etc.

Called the Secretary of State.
He said "This is not us".

So any sucker who sees this and pays it without reading the tiny fine print at the bottom that says "Not affiliated with the State Government", loses $500.00.

I have complained to the State, but they won't shut it down.

Beware of official looking invoices, and for that matter, beware of any invoices from anyone these days.

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[L98fiero]

Maybe they are simply after your E-mail address and shipping address they can sell those for a dollar or two.
If you never receive anything, what are you going to do. Hire some lawyer to chase down 60 USD?

So everyone who bothers with a 60 USD mini lathe, is highly probably an easy victim to buy more useless crap. (easy customers)
Make for 50, ship for 100, sell for 300. (customer unboxes first time, after the waranty expired and puts it on top of his thredmill next to the fitness stepper and the heating pillow (that almost caused a fire))

I guess shipping a what my friend says is a "hardinge knock off" will cost 30 times of what they claim for that mini lathe.

@Shopgeezer: If you pay upfront I will send you one to Canada (but you have to pay the machine, shipping and paperworks and you will have to see how import regulations are in Canada.... haha.... )

https://www.cyclematic.com/en/product/ctl-618evs-toolroom-lathe

p.s.This week I paid about 2 USD per kg of hot rolled vanilla flavor steel (give or take), if product is cheaper than raw material suspicion is adviseable.

I'm not sure what the limit is but I know that there are no import charges/duties on an $89 item, I've gotten more than that without any charges unless shipped by DHL or UPS that charge for making out the paperwork that says it's exempt, if they wait and combine until they get a container full, then break up the shipments, there'd be no duties on $89.

 

[L98fiero]

I got a very official looking invoice a few days ago for $500.00, for what looks exactly like State-required paperwork/fees.
Very official looking state seal, etc.

Called the Secretary of State.
He said "This is not us".

So any sucker who sees this and pays it without reading the tiny fine print at the bottom that says "Not affiliated with the State Government", loses $500.00.

I have complained to the State, but they won't shut it down.

Beware of official looking invoices, and for that matter, beware of any invoices from anyone these days.

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That was a common scam 30-40 years ago, your business would get an invoice for listings in trade directories and such, if A/P wasn't careful, sometimes they slipped through as it looked like it might be legitimate.