Fraudsters

[O-Gi]

Dear all,
Dear IH enthusiasts,

Currently, there is a wave of selling scam regarding IH items happening in Germany via the online platform "Kleinanzeigen" (former "EbayKleinanzeigen").
IH items are proposed at very low prices, sellers only accept PayPal Family and Friends, and rip you off. Of course, the items are never sent and your money is lost.

Examples of sellers´ names are/have been:
Ro624; Victoria, Marc, Philipp, etc.
These are accounts from people who are usually long-standing members of that particular marketplace with good evaluation (that most likely have been hacked).

Kleinanzeige has deleted numerous accounts, but new ones pop up regularly.

Currently, I see one such item: https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/iron-heart-herren-jeans-hose-dunkelblau-w34-l36-wie-neu/2659519451-160-9482

Please beware!

Have a good day.
Olivier

PS: If this thread is not the appropriate location, please feel free to relocate it. Thanks in advance.

[Giles]

Perfect Thank you......

[tody]

@tody said in Random Rants:

Buyer beware on the German platform kleinanzeigen.de!
I noticed a multitude of new offers at too-good-to-be-true prices. Photos are taken from older listings, seller accounts are probably hacked or otherwise compromised. Don't fall for these!

That's been going on for quite some time now... Considering the size of the platform they should have implemented something against this by now.

[weftyarn]

I almost fell for one of these feckers with a Fujifilm offer. They’re getting better and better, you really have to watch out.

PayPal goods and services saved my ass.

[O-Gi]

@tody But unfortunately, they haven´t and these IH items come up regularly. The Primaloft jacket showed as first item on your pic was e.g. by Ro624, who has been banned.

[Shelby999]

@alexmweil
On Monday, October 27, 2025 he told me that if I send the agreed upon sum, he'll send an IHJ-86-BLK, "tomorrow."
I PayPal send him the money on the morning of the 28th, logically expecting quick action (as was agreed upon).

There is no acknowledgement by the days end, so I ask him for the tracking number, please.

I wait 4 days, and after still no reply whatsoever, I file a case with PayPal.
This inspires him to tell me (within 3 hours), "Hey I'm so sorry I have been out of town due to a death in the family, I will ship this out Monday and send tracking."

Yesterday (Tuesday Nov 4), I asked for the tracking number. Or a refund.

Now, I see that he has removed the ad for this jacket (yesterday) and while doing it, has failed to reply to me, again.

He still has an ad up for a Schott jacket.
I want to spare somebody else the trouble of having to deal with this nonsense.

His profile shows that he's been on this forum since 2015, so I was hopeful...

I don't know what he hopes to gain from this.

[Shelby999]

He is short-sighted, or abandoning this guise.

[Shelby999]

And now, I see that he is going to refund me!
He gave me no communication in this regard; PayPal has informed me of this action.

As always, buyer beware.
PayPal has underwritten this exchange, and proven its worth, again.

[Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot]

I’ll admit my transaction with @alexmweil fell short of a “Heroes” shoutout - I will say I did land a grail piece from him about 9 months ago or so…..

Glad you’re sorted @Shelby999 - sorry to hear you won’t be getting the piece you were after. And condolences to Alex for any loss - life is hard, and harder at certain times.

[Shelby999]

@ Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot Life is always hard when people won't communicate during a transaction. Best wishes to you!

[goosehd]

Just like spring flowers, the spammers are back at it again:

Thank you @labrat and @Chibs for notifying the mods. The user has been permanently banned from the forum.

[goosehd]

If you see suspicious activity in the marketplace or by personal pm, please contact any of the mod staff as quickly as possible with information about those spammers. We are here to protect you and the forum and can only do so with your help.

Flagging an individual as a spammer is great, but we need to know how and what they are doing before we permanently ban them. Special thanks to @labrat for that information!!

[Jord]

Also got this message... it looks like they were just advertising for their subreddit, annoying lol.

[goosehd]

@Jord …could be so, but there was a better way to advertise.

[motojobobo]

Excellent quick and effective preventive action @labrat and @goosehd !
I also got the same advertisement but failed to flag it. Will try to be more useful to the forum next time.

[sabergirl]

Sent it to me, too. I found it to be pretty harmless, personally. I told him no thanks and he was gracious about it.

[labrat]

Solid detective work, team

[goosehd]

I have this up for discussion in the moderator area, but find this part interesting on his site. By him contacting you directly by pm, is he not doing what he’s asking you not to do on his site?

[Jord]

@goosehd Yeah it definitely was spam, I mean he could have just posted in the GAH thread "Hey check out this on reddit!" I'm sure if anyone on here that had some forum activity did that it would have been fine..., but DMing people individually to try promote it was not the way to go about it... Wouldn't be surprised if there's a sales section on the sub and he's trying to pull a fast one! (although I might just be jumping to conclusions)

[sabergirl]

I get why you decided to ban them, according to that rule @goosehd .