Wondering what to think about this
knotrealgood
| Posted in Power Tools and Machinery on
I’m not quite sure what to think of this.
**mod edited the link out because… well… others might click on it**
My thought is the tools are probably returns/referbs, maybe, maybe not. The other part of me says: “If it’s to good to be true… .” and “If you don’t/won’t use them is it really a bargain?”
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One of the warning signs that a site is a scam is that they don't accept credit cards. I guess technically accepting Paypal means you would use a credit card, but this site does not accept VISA, Mastercard, Discovery, AmEx, etc. Another warning sign is that they don't have contact information. Try clicking on the Contact button on this site, nothing happens. The Home Depot logo is all over the site, and the copyright notice says Home Depot, and yet they don't accept credit cards, but Home Depot *does* accept credit cards. Strange, no? And finally, for me anyway, if you look at the site's source code, some of the code is written in Chinese. The Home Depot with Chinese source code on their web site? I think not.
Ok, one more clue. On the Return Policy page, at the bottom it says to "Please contact our Customer service at customer service@homedepot.com to get the return address." But there's no hyper-link to that email address (because it's not real. Scam, Scam, Scam!
Remember the old saw: "If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true."
I think what you find is that it's not a new item, returned item or refurbished item but in fact there is no item at all! I don't understand how this works for them,how they get away with the money. PayPal will reimburse if a person gets scammed but they must manage to take at least some of the money and run. It is eyecatching though when someone is selling something at 1/4 of the real price!
Yep smelled like a scam to be. "But it shore was wrapped up purty."
Wonder who falls for it.
When a site seems likely to be a scam, just set it down. Don't go stomping around on the page, clicking links. Good lord.
Ain't nobody giving stuff away for cheap. That's not the way the world works.
Actually, it’s a good way to confirm when a site is a scam, if you know what you’re doing. Use a VPN to go to the site so they don’t know who or where you are. As for “clicking on links” right-click on a web page and select “source code”, which doesn’t open the site, but lets you see where the supposed links go, in this case nowhere. And, again in this case, you can see Chinese in the supposed Home Depot site source code.
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