Fraud?

[Phil Pascoe]

Posts linking to these ads are coming up on Facebook Market Place regularly -https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1223324315204313/?hoisted=false&ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks
https://www.katexx.shop/product/dew...ess-impact-driver-and-hammer-drill-combo-kit/
they seem to good to be legit.
edit - Log into Facebook

 

[flying haggis]

Looking at the postcode for the address shows it as a company selling cleaning supplies in wales
01792 645988. Cotton and sons.
Give them a ring and ask if they really are selling them. Just might be genuine....

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There's several things being advertised, I don't need any of them but they seem too good to be true.

 

[flying haggis]

The unit next door on the industrial estate sells power tools so could be part of the same company.

 

[flying haggis]

Order two and if it goes pear shaped request a charge back via the credit card company

 

[alan895]

Since they're offering a non-UK available DW735 planer for £163 none of it is likely to be legit.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

 

[Agent_zed]

It's FB, if you aren't physically picking it up then it is a scam!

Seen so many new £89 E-bikes ?? why would you even try at this price point, it's obvious its a scam.

 

[flying haggis]

Perhaps trading standards in Swansea would like to hear about it

 

[sneggysteve]

Anyone in the Swansea area who can give bit more info??

 

[TheUnicorn]

the link no longer seems to work, so perhaps trading standards took an interest?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Yes, the ads have been taken down.

 

[Sachakins]

There's tons of this type of adverts, many use old hacked Facebook accounts to imitate they've been around for years,. No sooner they're reported then they pop up under another account, the common thing is they all use the same photos, some are even clever enough to read your location and spoof There's to match,. And if you dig into sellers other items, they normally also have the £63 ebike, the £63 10x12 solid wood shed, the £63 blah blah blah, you get the picture? but they also normally have a used item, like a jumper for £100s of pounds. It's the last used item that seems to get around the Facebook narketpkace and ebay spurious advert algorithms.

Sick of reporting them, but I always do when one crops, also happens a lot with aquariums, which I see a lot of as fishkeeping also a side hobby with the wood turning, card crafts and mixed media experiments. ;(soon to add cnc and laser too )

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There's loads of tanks on sale around here, some very nice ones. People are getting rid of them because of the cost of running them.

 

[stuart little]

There's loads of tanks on sale around here, some very nice ones. People are getting rid of them because of the cost of running them.

Shermans?

 

[TheUnicorn]

Shermans?

saw somewhere in passing a few weeks ago that the reason milatary tanks are called tanks is because the vehicles were shipped / packaged as 'water tanks' in the early stages of their development / use in a vague attempt at secracy