More than half of Amazon sales correspond to third-party sellers present in the Amazon Marketplace . This system allows stores and sellers to advertise on Amazon and sell products that even compete in price with those offered by Amazon itself. The problem is that there are those who are taking advantage of the Marketplace to scam users with very low prices.
Sure, if you have shopped on Amazon in the last year and browse frequently looking for products, you will have found half-price deals from third-party sellers on products like cameras, drones, graphics cards, laptops, etc. The profiles of these sellers usually have few opinions, and some of them positive in order to make users itch.
Sellers asking for transfer payments
If you buy one of the products they offer, the seller cancels the order and contacts the user. Among the reasons for cancellation, the seller usually alleges problems with payment, shipping or stock. From there, it sends you a bank account number and tells you to put the money there, and that it will take care of sending you.
The problem is that this shipment never occurs, since the scam consists of encouraging the user to make the payment outside of Amazon. Because of this, the sending of money does not have any protection by Amazon as it has been done outside the store. Obviously, the seller never ships and keeps the money.
The accounts of these sellers change over time, but two of them that are running these types of scams are GLC Shop and BARGAINER . The first already has numerous negative opinions, but the dangerous thing about the second is that, of the two opinions it has, both are positive.
Many people, when they buy on Amazon, believe that they are buying directly from the store, and they do not notice that in many cases external sellers are making the sale. Shipping, for its part, may be managed by Amazon, or the seller may already take care of it.
The email may appear to have been delivered by Amazon
The problem is that, when the fake seller communicates with the user, the message is sent through Amazon, so the user receives the message alert through the online store, with an email that has the logo of the company at the top, and where it says “Amazon Marketplace.” In addition, the seller says that the payment has to be made to the current account of payments of “Amazon Europe”, which further deepens the deception.
The saddest thing about all this is that profiles take a long time to disappear, and users keep falling for these scams. Amazon has not put any solution or taken any action against these sellers, despite the fact that they have been informed of their existence on numerous occasions. Therefore, the only thing that remains for us is to alert you so that you are very careful with the low prices that these scammers use as bait within Amazon.
In the past, a trick marketers used was to hide an email address in their name so that users would contact them. These types of scams are over quickly, but now they are even more dangerous because it feels like you are actually communicating with Amazon itself.
