Sounds good to be true? You bet.
I happened to be looking around for a good priced notebook that we are planning to send to my cousins in Iloilo. We don't mind if it's just second hand. We also recently bought one over at Openpinoy.com last week for my sister-in-law, and we are thinking of making a repeat purchase.
We bought an IBM Thinkpad T42, single core 1.6 Ghz and basic specs, at Openpinoy for 14k. Almost the same price as the HP Core 2 Duo ebay offer, albeit half the specs. So yeah, the Ebay offer was really, really good.
I didn't notice the location of the seller, and I quickly assumed that he is just somewhere in Manila. I was thinking that when we come to an agreement, that we'll just set a meeting and seal the deal. So there, I clicked the big blue Buy It Now button and committed to buy.
The seller contacted me and explained to me that he is from Davao, and that he wanted me to send over the downpayment before he sends the notebook over via LBC. I initially asked if we can just cancel the transaction because I really didn't know that he's not somewhere near Manila, but he did insist that I already made the commitment to buy. Of course, that will be too risky for me. So after a few rounds of negotiation, an idea came to mind.
I remembered that I have a good friend online who I happened to have several successful trading card transactions already, and this guy is also from Davao. So I contacted this friend and he agreed to verify the seller for me.
I mentioned to the seller that I will only give the money to my friend, and that my friend has to check the product before agreeing to the transaction. My friend then tried to contact the seller but got no response.
And this morning when I checked my inbox, I got this ebay message:
The seller has requested to cancel the transaction.
Friday the 13th is not too unlucky after all :)
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