Yes it happened a second time

Recently I purchased items from a wholesaler based in China and I purchased off him to resell the items. These items look and feel like the ridgey didge item. I have an Authentic "Friends" set that I purchased last year from Amazon and that is an authentic copy. When I started purchasing (3 times in all) from this supplier I ordered "Friends" and a few other items. I never opened it as I was going to resell it but it looked exactly the same as the one I had from Amazon a couple of the items that I got had chinese writing on it but I just thought that they realeased these versions for the Asian market and that is why it had the writing like that and the Japenese and Chinese subtitles. They advertise that they are authentic so I had no reason to suspect otherwise. It wasn't until I was banded from selling them on Ebay as a copy of "Sex and the city" had a typo on the box and they believed it to be fraudulent. I took all my other items down and opened the packet to have a look. The discs in side are very professional looking certainly not the home burned type that I got of the other guy. These looked original to me. I got my authentic copy and compared the quality and these were definately not as good quality. The original is clear and crisp to watch even on a big plasma screen these other ones although they look the same are slightly unclear and some of the picture goes off the edge of the tv screen. I had paid for these by Paypal. Paypal do not refund when the item is faulty or damaged or not what you wanted or even when they are illegal copies they have told me they only refund when you don't get the item at all. "Hinde site I should have pretended I never got the item" instead of telling the truth that they were pirated copies. I emailed the owner of the site to request a refund but I am not expecting to get it back so I am out of pocket $1000. This scam was not easy to spot and I'm sure Ebay only picked it up because of the spelling mistake on the Sex and the city box. I just thought when they had translated they got it wrong. I feel very angry that I've been ripped off but I'm beginning to realise that there are people out there just waiting to rip you off. So buyer beware.

From now on I will only purchase DVD's or CDS from large respected stores and I will never buy these products on Ebay on online again. The internet is a wonderful thing but it has opened up the gateway for the scammers to con people from all around the world.

So don't throw your money away on these poor quality illegal copies. Yes the real ones cost more but in the long run I might as well have just put my money in the rubbish bin as that is all I got ripped off DVDs that I can't watch or sell.

I don't know why the Governments of countries like Australia and the US can't protect consumers from these blantant criminals. Oh and one more thing. Guess where I got the website address to go and purchase the DVD's in the first place. You guessed it a sponsored link on Ebays very own site. So they are actually promoting a fraudulent seller and do nothing about it and there sister company Paypal offered no help or security when thats why we pay the fees to use them in the first place.

Watch out for DVD scams

I am producing the blog to warn others so they don't get ripped off like me. I recently purchased two complete TV Series from http://www.tvdvdworld.tv/ They offered TV series that I've wanted to get for ages so I purchased one set for my daughter and one set for me on a series that I love. My daughters set arrived first as the second set was on backorder. As soon as I opened the parcel I realised they were illegal fake copies of the series and not originals. I was annoyed as I thought I was getting the ridgy didge product but when my daughter went to watch it you couldn't even watch it as it had been poorly recorded and was so blurry they even my tv addicted teenage daughter couldn't watch it. I emailed the company and told them that they not only were illegally copied DVDs and I'd been ripped off but that the quality of the picture was so poor that it was totally not watchable. Unfortunately they had emailed me prior to my daughter watching her DVDs to tell me the back order was on the way. So in my email complaining about the poor quality I told them that my set had better be clearer. Anyway as you probably guessed I never got an email back from these people and my set arrived today and sure enough three whole discs just don't work at all and the ones that do work are so blurred there is no way anyone would sit there and watch them. I am sick to death of dishonest people making a buck by ripping other people off. Why don't these people get a real job, because not only are they dishonest breaching copyright they are also idots as they can't even produce a copy that is watchable. I realise I've thrown my money away. But don't you. Don't ever buy from these people.

These DVDS were very easy to tell that they are fraudulent and now that I've got them I can see I should have seen the signs when browsing there website. The covers shown on the website are not like any other versions out there on the market. I just thought that they had used these pictures for display purchases to better tell you about the series you where buying. But no these are the actual poorly printed covers on the DVD containers. Then when you open the covers even though they are factory sealed inside the discs look just like the ones you burn at home yourself. This is a very amaturish production and as I said earlier the quality of the shows is so blurred it is not watchable. Looks like when they've taped the episodes off the TV they have a very poor antenna and the TV reception is terrible.

I have been stung twice - would you believe it - I'm just so gullable that I thought most people where honest - I was wrong.

Read my other post to hear my second and final rip off. I'll never be caught by these scammers again.