PRELOVED SCAMMER.

[theamberbeast]

Hi everyone, my good friends Teresa (lovebugglys) and Steve (steve d) have found some adverts on Preloved that have taken their photos and are claiming to be selling various types of snail. It is clearly a scam as Teresa and Steve are the only ones selling the Hadra Webbi in the UK and the Edentulina haven't been bred yet, they're hard to keep alive and we have no idea if anyone has actually managed to breed them in captivity.
In one of the ads the seller claims that they are a rare type of snail and then says he has 200 babies for sale. They are all at very strange prices too.
The user is called Snail23450.

Here are the links to some of the adverts.

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108147453/adult-subulina-octana.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108147096/albino-tiger-snails.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108147403/edentulina-affinis.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/1....s-for-sale.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108146306/tiger-snails.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108146370/albino-land-snails.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/108146869/euglandina-rosea.html

www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/1....reticulata.html

PLEASE HELP US SHUT THIS ACCOUNT DOWN AND STOP THEM SCAMMING.


Thank you.
Amber

[Kitana]

Those are MY subulina octana as well! What the hell!

[muddydragon]

I'ld like to add that while this preloved seller is almost certainly a scammer, Teresa and Steve will not be the only people selling H. webii in the UK. My H. Webii originally came for a UK seller (who was not them). I just don't want people to assume if anyone else is selling H. webii that they are a scammer. But key points to look out for are what payment methods they accept.

[Johnnywho]

"sorry no paypal cheques or cash or anyother method other than paypal." So they don't except PayPal, but they except cash and cheques

[muddydragon]

thanks johnny. I was more referring to a check for scammers in general (i.e. do they not accept the more secure methods of payment such as paypal. although paying by visa carries some protection it is not as good as that of paypal's and more tricky to get the money returned to you should something go wrong). I can see why a legitimate seller would not like to use paypal as they take 3.4% + 20p of any money that comes in (and a scammer obviously does not want to use paypal as the buyer can get their money back if nothing turns up) but for legitimate sellers it's worth it as it's easier to use and adds security for both parties, all the seller needs to do is account for this in the price of the snails.

[berrie]

Well I just tried a few of those links in the message from theamberbeast and it says that page can't be found/no longer valid, so hopefully they have been shutdown off preloved - one would like to think anyways.

[Kitana]

Yep. Taken down a few days ago which was pretty fast considering. Many thanks to everyone who helped