What are examples of what you thought was a scam that turned out to be legit?
A company wanted to pay me in USDT
Also for me Temu turned out to be good value
Turned out to be legit.
What Did You Think Was a Scam but Turned out to Be 100% Legit?
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University and Coaching colleges. Private schools are a hit and miss.
Jetstar emailed me about an expiring voucher. I thought it had already expired, but it was further extended (Covid).
I got contacted by this Japanese person inviting me to a cultural tour for 5 days with all expenses paid. I thought it was a scam but it mentioned one of my colleagues name. It turned out to be legit and 9 other educators were invited to experience a city in Japan for 5 days. I had the best experiences visiting amazing places and eating delicious food.
Flybuys bonus points …
Oh, and the entire Coles website.Aliexpress, havent been scammed so far. I wasn't looking for any items with a high price though so I probably won't test my luck now…
So you've received everything on time/at all?
Weirdly enough they arrive before their ETAs. Maybe because the items that I order are usually small. Their ETAs for me are usually 2-4 weeks but they arrive in a week and a half. They come in good condition the box is usually beat but I am pretty sure it's the delivery person / facilities worker.
The early days of buying DVDs from this new place called Amazon and some other start ups where you could stack ludicrous coupons, have a bunch of DVDs turn up, and then over the coming weeks get a bunch of cheques in USD whose value greatly exceeded the cost of those DVDs, if you actually paid anything at all for them in the first place
The early days of Amazon were buying books bro
Bro
Digital disc technology is still relatively new. Books have been around for millennia.
Covid
Also for me Temu turned out to be good value
Please qualify with sth along the lines of: "then and now…"
Was in the market for a new car, planning to spend about $20k. Then saw an ad on google for a hyundai i20 brand new for $12888 in Sydney. Called the number and sure enough, paid a $500 deposit over the phone and picked it up 2 weeks later. Didnt realize how good of a deal it was till later.
recently? was it stolen?
Sounds like it still is.
haha 2015ish? It was from the Pennant Hills dealer in NSW and apparently they got in a lot of s*** from the corporate headquarters for posting an ad like that with that D/A price
Managed to snap up the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a song.
Intend to install toll kiosks any day now and watch the lucre roll in.
Selling my 2-3 year old 5700xt for $1050, then just buying a new 6700xt for $60 more.
2AM on April 7
I’ve only had the opposite. Trusted brand turned out to be scam - Auspost!
Bitcoin
My mortgage bank uses the most random sets of letters as their description, the first time funds were removed i freaked out and thought i was getting scammed as there is just no way i could figure out which company just took several thousand dollars from my bank account.
Tax, still not sure it's legit. ;)
Someone turned up to buy an item listed on marketplace….within an hour item was listed.
Marriage
"Also for me Temu turned out to be good value". I just recently purchased some low value items from Temu and AliExpress. One problem is that they don't believe in boxes. Deliveries are just in an opaque plastic bag with no bubble wrap. 2 items had extra protection, but the remainder didn't and some items were damaged. They don't seem to resend damaged items but force you to purchase it again, but this time you miss out on the 30% or so discount you got when you used your initial coupon codes. Also they want ship an order less than $45 when you got to reorder (it is initially $15 when you first get your coupon codes). Probably returning even just 1 item for a refund due to damage will cancel out any cashback.
Temu is fine for blankets, clothes, sheets, tablecloths, but not so great for fragile items.
Jump on the AI chat on the app and say "remove my minimum spend".
Also, if you have missed out on using the codes, you can ask to "have my codes back"…
AFP Requested my attendance to a local police station. I told them to GTFO AFP I'm sure. Turns out it was legit. I was then politely reminded to have a friendly chat. They didn't want me just wanted a statement. Go figure.
Everyone saying Bitcoin, most of them convinced it's not a scam because it's been here long enough.
There are plenty of crypto scams, and plenty of scams involving or built around bitcoin. But bitcoin it's self is no more a scam than TCP/IP or HTTP.
Most people thought bitcoin was a scam, i remember back at the start people were selling 10k coins for 10 bux and noone bought it at a 100s of people lan.
Who is noone and Ian?
Are they crypto bros too?
@jimsdeals is that company you’re referring to that pays in USDT upland?
last year I received an email from ANZ saying they owe me 50ish bucks due to some system error and sent a cheque to my old address, I didn't even bother to verify and ignored. 2 months ago, received the same email, called the number provided and actually got the money back.
I remember that. They did look dodgy, like the online equivalent of a rough guy selling stuff out the back of his van