Bax Music - 80% off

[TheGreek]

Lots of ads all over Facebook stating that Bax Music are having a massive sale with 80% off...probably not everything though...

 

Click bait or for real??

 

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[casapete]

39 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Lots of ads all over Facebook stating that Bax Music are having a massive sale with 80% off...probably not everything though...

 

Click bait or for real??

 

LINK REMOVED

Dodgy as! Les Pauls for £125?

Avoid.

Edited 18 hours ago by wateroftyne

[Wombat]

.ru.com?

[Steve Browning]

I suspect the .ru is a bit of a giveaway.

[Hellzero]

Check the link before posting @TheGreek...

 

It's in Russia, so a big scam!

 

 

[Reggaebass]

Slightly too good to be true, scammy 

[prowla]

15 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Check the link before posting @TheGreek...

 

It's in Russia, so a big scam!

 

Latest funding incentive for the war effort...

[neepheid]

Total scam. As soon as I saw the URL, I knew.

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[Steve Browning]

There seems to be something along similar lines, offering 70th anniversary Strats for free. The pictures on one ad include a Jaguar, a Bass VI and an unopened Squier box!

[wateroftyne]

It's a scam.

[Woodinblack]

Facebook is full of scams. I saw one last week for andertons, selling marshal speakers for 9.99. I have seen those before and know they are scammed, so I looked, sure enough it said anderton music supplies, had their logo and everything, then look closer, 120 followers. Reported it as a scam, Did a search for andertons, hundreds of thousands of followers, no little speakers, contacted them they said not to deal with the other thing as it was a scam, I said I knew and had reported it but thought they might have more clout, they said they report them every day and nothing happens. Sure enough, 2 days later got a thing from facebook saying that the complaint wasn't upheld.

Now I assume everything on facebook is fake, as long as meta get their money they don't care who they are ripping off.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Social media companies should be made to take responsibility for scam advertising. They can afford it but they'd rather make obscent amounts of profit rather than spend the money on protecting their users.

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Now I assume everything on facebook is fake, as long as meta get their money they don't care who they are ripping off.

Yet they won’t let me advertise my old iPhone on Marketplace - they insist it’s counterfeit! 
As if a pro counterfeiter would be bothered selling something for £40!

Unbelieveable. 

[Supernaut]

LMAO. Yup, Facebook. Has to be genuine. 😂

[gjones]

There was one for Andertons on Facebook which linked to what looked like an Andertons website. I messaged Andertons and they asked me to report it to Facebook. Of course Facebook did nothing.

 

It's like the wild west out there.

[SICbass]

Honestly lads, when did we all become so jaded and cynical?

 

…coat.

[Cato]

14 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Sure enough, 2 days later got a thing from facebook saying that the complaint wasn't upheld.

Now I assume everything on facebook is fake, as long as meta get their money they don't care who they are ripping off.

 

I doubt your complaint was ever even seen by a human being, just instantly scanned and rejected by an automated program, with the the response witheld for 2 days just to give the illusion that some kind of considered process had taken place.

 

The big social media companies have always taken the position that they bear zero responsibility for how people use the platform that they provide, to the point where they are extremely reluctant to acknowledge that they are even aware that any criminal activity takes place on their services in case that implies they have any kind of moral duty to police and prevent such activity.

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[binky_bass]

54 minutes ago, Cato said:

 

I doubt your complaint was ever even seen by a human being, just instantly scanned and rejected by an automated program, with the the response witheld for 2 days just to give the illusion that some kind of considered process had taken place.

 

The big social media companies have always taken the position that they bear zero responsibility for how people use the platform that they provide, to the point where they are extremely reluctant to acknowledge that they are even aware that any criminal activity takes place on their services in case that implies they have any kind of moral duty to police and prevent such activity.

If no one used social media, this couldn't happend and quite frankly the world would be a far better place for so many many reasons.

 

In principle, so many human inventions are originally designed for good and moral reasons, however, inevitably, we as humans coat that good intention in a thick, indelible layer or evil tar that can never be removed once it infiltrates the good. 

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, Cato said:

I doubt your complaint was ever even seen by a human being, just instantly scanned and rejected by an automated program, with the the response witheld for 2 days just to give the illusion that some kind of considered process had taken place.

 

Thats exactly what I assumed.