Buyers are sick of misleading and blatent lies on Facebook's Maerket Place.

 

It seems commnplace for Asian sellers seem to have a disregard for the law, and facebooks listing policy's.

They regulary list items as "Like New" yet items have marks or other minor damage to them. Not with a care about wasting buyers time and ripping them off.

 

 

Under facebook listing guide this should be listed at minimum as"good". Yet Asian sellers just can't clean their act or the items they are selling.

 

In one day, a buyer found a first item had scrap marks and food particles fallen into it, yet was listed as "hardly used, and Like New.

Whilst collecting a second item listed as Like New, turned out to have a deep cut or scracth near the top and on the control panel had a chip where something had impacted it, as well as greasy fingerprints all over.

No effort had been made by either seller to give them a wipe over. He says "people I tell have said they experience the same with sellers of this ethnicity.

 

Anisah Anaib said and repeated "the item come like that, her mother opened it once and we packed it back up..

 

Does she think that a car driving once but having an accident is still like new and not to mention the damage!!

 

This sort of behviour is in breach of the Sale of Goods Act 1979.

A private seller is only obliged to provide goods “as described” but as shown in the photos it was not like new and the filter was dusty and old.

 

If you make a purchase and it's a private sale, the law states that the goods you receive must match the description in the advert.

 

Second-hand goods bought from online retailers are covered by the Consumer Contracts Regulations. But it is open to abuse as they don't have to draw attention to defects. Which also states that goods must be as described.

 

There's no obligation on the seller to disclose any faults, but misrepresenting goods isn't allowed.

For example, something second-hand should not be described as new. If it is, the seller will be in breach of contract.

 

In these cases a refund should be offered, but if you can’t reach an agreement between yourselves you’ll have to try alternative dispute resolution or the small claims court.

 

CYBER CRIME & FRAUD
England and Wales	Adults aged 16 and over
Offence group	Number of incidents (thousands)
Fraud	3,761
Bank and credit account fraud	2,472
Non-investment fraud	1,042
Advance fee fraud	108
Other fraud	138
Computer misuse	2,006
Computer virus	1,357
Unauthorised access to personal information (including hacking)	649
Unweighted base - number of adults	9,163
Source: Crime Survey for England and Wales, Office for National Statistics

The figures are separate from the ONS headline estimate that a total of 6.3 million crimes were perpetrated against adults in the year to March - a 6% fall in the number of crimes compared to the previous year.

 

Computer viruses

New questions on fraud and computer misuse were added to the CSEW in October 2015. Sufficient data have now been gathered to produce estimates, based on these new questions, as Experimental Statistics. These data build upon the findings from the recent field trial of the newly developed survey questions – which can be found in the methodological note: CSEW Fraud and Cyber-crime development: Field trial – October 2015 – however, the 2 sets of figures should not be directly compared, as methodological refinements were made following the trial.

Based on these new questions, adults aged 16 and over experienced an estimated 3.8 million incidents of fraud (Table 4), with just over half of these (51%; 1.9 million incidents) being cyber-related1.

 

The most common types of fraud experienced were “Bank and credit account” fraud (2.5 million incidents; 66% of the total), followed by “Non-investment” fraud – such as fraud related to online shopping or fraudulent computer service calls (1.0 million incidents; 28% of the total).

In addition, adults experienced an estimated 2.0 million computer misuse incidents; around two-thirds (68%; 1.4 million incidents) of these were computer virus related and around one-third (32%; 0.6 million incidents) were related to unauthorised access to personal information (including hacking).

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Analysis

But the widespread use of computers, laptops and smart-phones to facilitate fraud has changed all that - and the survey is finally catching up.

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