Dear friend:
Thanks for your interest about our item.
The item you want has already been wrapped well.
Can you tell me the state of the payment?
Maybe you are very busy or the payment is on the way or something wrong with the bank.
Will you please show me a favor to go to the bank and check it ?
Please send email to me ASAP.
I will be appreciated.
As soon as we receive your payment, we will immediately send the items you ordered from us.
The payment pleases behind to send me your payment detail.
We will send your item within 24 hours.
After item send out,
I track the E-mail your DHL numeral,
So you can check your item quickly and accurately.
The item will arrive your house on 3-5 days.
Once your item arrives in satisfactory condition, please leave feedback for me. I will do the same for you.
Have a nice day
Thanks!
Cheers
thx


From: fytuiudsfgdstg ([email protected])
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 4:53:09 PM
To: [email protected]

Dear friend:
Thanks for your letter!
Your kite has already in the box pack.
Because my bank account of paypal is Chinese paypal it can accept China only of payment of paypal.
My paypal bank account the assurance is not the arrival from the paypal payment of the abroad.
So I do not accept your payment of paypal.
Request you trust!
I am a seller of honesty.
As soon as do business with me you can trust me completely.
I will not do the affair of any violation morals and consciences.
Certain you pay to the bank of the kite to send your kite immediately.
As soon as we receive your payment, we will immediately send the items you ordered from us.
The payment pleases behind to send me your payment detail.
We will send your item within 24 hours.
After item send out,
I track the E-mail your DHL numeral,
So you can check your item quickly and accurately.
The item will arrive your house on 3-5 days.
Have a nice day
Thanks!
Cheers
thx


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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: After the payment please send you detailed address, the name postal service code to me, so I can fast accurately deliver item give you.Wish smooth!
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:01:27 +1030

Can you please send me PAYPAL money request as this is how i will be paying for my item..

Kind Regards,
Scammer@ebay

Economically speaking supporting the local anything beyond the point of competitiveness is a bad idea, it will result in the consumer getting screwed in the end. Essentially all you are doing is giving the store market power and the ability to raise prices with a smaller fall in demand for their products due to 'loyalty'. By all means support a store if their service is good but surely not just for the sake of supporting something local??? I guess it comes down to value judgements in the end.

I personally cannot afford to buy local anymore unless it's on sale. Being a uni student is my excuse.

Though if I were to go to a store to demo a kite or board I generally am a little more inclined to pay that bit extra.

Ebay IMO however is not worth the risk if it's something listed in China that I can't go see for myself.

The bar in the add is a cabrinha isnt it????

^^^^sounds like it fell off the back of a truck


anyone missing a nobil 666 07

I like the idea of this guy getting in trouble with the Chinese authorities.

I have had many customers shop around with overseas offers that all sound great, even from reputable shops in other reputable countries like UK and US. But in the end they always come back, it simply works out close enough to the same and there is a very simple reason for this.

Basically the manufacturers set a world price either in $US or Euro's, they don't sit down and go... lets make our kites cheaper in China and more expensive in Japan, it would just not work, and in the end the manufacturer may as well just set up his own direct distribution straight from the factory and do away with all retailers, (or the retailer who is in one of the countries that has a 'good deal' would do the same thing).

There are of course a few variables like, GST, VAT, exchange rates, import tax, local competition and maybe a brand trying to establish itself, but these things are generally pretty minor and change pretty rapidly.

I've seen beginner customers literally take months going back and forth, does it come with a bar? is it a 2010?, is it a fake? The deals they are searching for are simply not there to be had, otherwise we would all have been doing it long, long, ago.

But Australia has next to no import duty on kites (because we do not make that many here), and a very competitive shop and school environment, for example Perth's the only place I know where beginners are offered free lessons.

So buy local, not to support your local retailing millionaire, but because it makes perfect sense and you won't do better.

WA Surf said...


Perth's the only place I know where beginners are offered free lessons.

I am not sure if Padi still does it, but he was offering a rebate on purchase of kite and such if you had taken lessons with him. Padi is Surfconnect proprietor, so not just in Perth can you get free lessons, but also in Queensland.

SURFCONNECT HOME PAGE
HOW TO LEARN KITESURFING FOR FREE? With Surf Connect School all lessons you paid for will be given as full credit towards the purchase of gear. So if you had 3 lessons at $160 per lesson, simply take $480 off the gear price! Offer subject to conditions and availability.

on ebay again your mate from China back?

just by chance did any one hear back from China after s/he was de-registered from ebay
or after being sent there email not accepting paypal etc.