Free Samsung SSD

You know when something looks too good to be true? Well I had an advert pop up the other day for a company offering a free SSD for the cost of postage. I dismissed it but later was going to investigate it a bit further, but couldn't remember the company. This morning i had the advert again so looked again and it seems to appear real. They take paypal so minimal risk and it's only £4.95 postage to pay so not much to lose if it doesn't arrive. So i just ordered one.

https://razer-sphex.com/collections/...-free-shipping

Do you think it was worth trying?

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It'll be interesting to see. I just ordered one, so I'll post here with an update.

Hm? I can add as many disks to my basket as I want, it still stays on 0£. Plus the shipping for Luxembourg is even 0, not 4.95£. So basically I could order 10 disks completely for free.

Ah ok, if I try to order 10 I get following message: There are no shipping methods available for your cart or destination. Otherwise with only 1 I also get the 4.95£ shipping costs.

EDIT: Don’t know if this is someone fooling us, did a second order, on my father’s address, PayPal merchant is completely another one.

First purchase:

Merchant
Bangle International
LimeHerald@yahoo.com

Second purchase:

Merchant
Abraham
abrahamdampson3208@gmail.com

First one is already confirmed as shipped.

Wow, nice find, got one for my fathers old PC cause I can't watch it being slow af. :thumbs:

Interesting. My PayPal receipt says:

Merchant:
Julian Hienstorfer
hienstorferjulian@gmail.com

On the product page, the "Hurry Up! Sale Ends In xx:xx:xx" is obviously faked or broken as it starts counting down from 4:25 when you first visit the page. If you revisit from the same browser, it will still count down, but it you use another browser, it will start again. Likewise if you visit later on in the day, it will start again.

The "Only xx items left in stock" is also probably broken or faked. In Firefox, where I placed my order, there are 15 left in stock. In Chromium, there are 16 left in stock.

Second one got apparently also shipped already. And on there site it says delivery 18-28 days!

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Interesting. My PayPal receipt says:

Merchant:
Julian Hienstorfer
hienstorferjulian@gmail.com

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Mine says Julian Hienstorfer too...

The site appears to be located in Canada, IP: 23.227.38.32 only alive for not even a month, so probably a scam.
https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/23.227.38.32
Are we ****ed or can we just tell PayPal to revoke the order?

There's always Paypal's buyer protection. You can open a dispute within 180 days saying you did not receive the item, and escalate that after a week and unless the scam was really obvious Paypal should eventually refund the money.

I went for one as well, and posted about it on a discord channel where another couple of guys jumped on it. So now my reputation is at risk here too, Harrison! :p ;)

Lol. Cheers mate! No pressure then.

Although it could be a scam, as said it is fairly safe as we are all using paypal and can pretty much guarantee we can get our money back, all be it not much to lose in the first place.

Really hoping it's real, but we will see.

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The thought of a free SSD is appealing but why would they be just giving them away for free? They'd lose a fair bit of money I would have thought.

5 quid posting barely covers the time spent handling, the box, the labelling, the postage. If they had somehow accumulated a big surplus wouldn't it be cheaper just to sell on as a job-lot, or even just dump them?

I'm very doubtful you'll get what you're hoping for.

The logic would be that it's a publicity stunt by a startup to attract customers. It was supposed to be a limited offer. The fact that they apparantly don't run out of stock and that the offer is still running while the timer has been at four hours left for ages definitely suggests this isn't real.

It looked good though, and that they accept proper payment solutions like Paypal further suggested they were legit. Oh, well.

Indeed. It is the protected and secure Paypal method that made me try it. Had they required direct card details i wouldn't have bothered.

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Only thing to watch out for is that the page states:

Please be advised that should you chargeback a payment without waiting the maximal shipping period of 28 days our client will be advised to pursue Legal Proceedings for the recovery of the payment where you willl be liable to pay interest and court fees.

The terms and conditions (which I read before purchasing) do state that they can refuse to serve you at any point, so if they ran out, or made an error, they'll probably cancel.

Of course, if we don't get our SSDs, we can always just bill Harrison for the money, since he put us on to this in the first place :D.

I can wait their 28 days. Paypal lets you launch a dispute as long as it's within 180 days. No problem.

If they're scammers they didn't think it through.

It's not a guarantee that Paypal will refund us though, if they find that the scam was so obvious we really shouldn't have fallen for it. Or for instance, if they somehow find this thread and sees that we suspected a scam but took a chance on it anyway then they will definitely not refund.

Anyone got their SSD yet?

I notice the fake countdown timer now lasts 1 hour and 11 minutes, and they only have 6 in stock. They have also added a load of customer reviews, and the shipping time is now 3 to 7 days.

No, and we never will. That is apparent now. I'm going to wait till march and then e-mail them just to have gone through the motions, and then open a dispute through Paypal.

Already forgot about this :) Oops.

lolz

Nothing ventured and all that. Wasn't a huge loss if it was a scam and they never arrive. But if they do..

On another note. Has anyone used the site Wish?

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Hey guys, I've got these beans.

They're magic, if you're interested

Turned out ok for Jack! Not so good for the giant!

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They're magic, if you're interested

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No thanks. I'm trying to quit.

Kind of...

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Hey guys, I've got these beans.

They're magic, if you're interested

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:lol:

Got my monies back from PayPal yesterday since the scammer didn't anwser their emails, bye bye Mr. Julian Hienstorfer or whatever your name is you dumb ****.

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Nothing ventured and all that. Wasn't a huge loss if it was a scam and they never arrive. But if they do..

On another note. Has anyone used the site Wish?

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My wife has used Wish several times to buy clothes and it works pretty well. :)

I got my money back off PayPal :).

Will put in to get mine back today.

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I notice their online store now isn't working, and neither are their other URLs, https://www.ext-harddrive.com/ and https://storage-by-thiemann.com/.

So, I wonder if it was really a scam, or just a marketing ploy gone wrong.

I opened a dispute on PayPal yesterday, will see how it goes.

I emailed them three weeks ago and forgot about it. Never received a reply of course, so high time to open a dispute. Must try and remember to do it this weekend.

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I notice their online store now isn't working, and neither are their other URLs, https://www.ext-harddrive.com/ and https://storage-by-thiemann.com/.

So, I wonder if it was really a scam, or just a marketing ploy gone wrong.

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:huh: :blink: :lol:

You makes me Larf! :D

Got my money back, saying “we decided in your favor”.

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Got my money back, saying “we decided in your favor”.

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....not because they are obliged to? :huh: :lol: