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Counterfeit DVD's

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:12 am
by Tomson
Hi All,

I recently been ripped off by an online DVD retailer. The company is UK based.

I purchased three Disney DVD's, all of which are quite blatantly fake/counterfeit product. Honestly they are laughable and the quality is very very poor.

Now the retailer in question won't offer a refund as two of the discs have been opened.

PayPal, have rejected a claim (<beep> tossers will get out of anything if they can, a very poor company)

Now I have a reall 'bee in my bonnett' about this transaction and counterfeit product in general. I was forced to close down my 1st business as I was unknowingly selling counterfeit kit - I also nearly had a spell at 'her majesty's pleasure' because of it.

The difference is, this idiot knows what he is selling.

I have reported him to several websites, but really want to get excited about it and cause a real issue for him (BTW i'm not normally this bitter :twisted: ... Honest)

Can anyone suggest anything.

I hate getting ripped off.

Tom

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:28 am
by Nige_RS4
Report them to trading stds?

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:36 am
by Tomson
Done, anything else?

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:24 am
by PhilT
FACT and/or Disney?

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:40 am
by Blue_Thunder
Call 'Harry The Bastard' to pay him a visit?

:sekret:

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:07 pm
by rolskii
I hear u get quite a reasonable eastern european hit men lately ..... down in Kent .....
thing is there usually killing each other so be quick .... there only twelvty thousands of them left ... :bigwave:

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:13 am
by VARSITY
If you paid by CC through Paypal then tell your CC company, or your bank. They will return the money to you and Paypal lose out.

I did a similar thing a few years ago. You will get Paypal threats for a few months then they go away and close your OD balance.

Just open another account and off you go.

The moral of the story is PAYPAL SUCK!

RE: Counterfeit DVD

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:58 am
by rikrose
You can call the police. That'll cause them issues. Also, while paypal say "hey, it's against our terms and conditions to use your credit card company to fight a battle with us", what they actually mean is "please don't do that. Legally, there's nothing we can do to stop you. But we'll get really angry. And we'll probably not deal with your account again if you do that!". So, tell your credit card company, and see how many lawyers you can set on them at once. The trick here is making it someone else's problem to fight it, rather than yours.

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:03 pm
by dazzer
You could also let us know who they are and we can avoid them like them like the plague. You can also speak to Watchdog- they love stuff like this.

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:34 am
by derdle
It would be good if we all knew who this retailer was....however you might need to be wary of lible laws by committing such comments to "print"?

When you spoke with Trading Standards - was it your own local office of the office local to the retailer?

Paul

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:06 pm
by Alps
Tom, can you let me know the company name please. I may be able to get this pr1ck into a legal kerfufle via who I work for ;)

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:03 pm
by Tomson
Hi All,

The company is liondvd.co.uk, complete and utter wankers.

Tom

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:40 pm
by Alps
Thanks Tom. Will look into it for you when I get back to work.

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:51 am
by Tomson
cheers

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:05 am
by Alps
Tom I tried to hunt down Lion DVD, but no success.

Do you know if they are trading under another name? Or do you have a business address for em? If so, send those over to us and I'll try again.