Getting scammed by SP is better than getting scammed buying iPhone

[locknload]

From time to time I read about guys getting scammed by SP. I know the feeling as I have been scammed a few times as well. Of course it never feels good but last week I had the unfortunate experience of a bigger scam. I bought what I thought was a brand new iPhone in a sealed box with a genuine looking Apple receipt from Kijiji. Turned out it was a fake. Now I'm filling out police report and a complaint with Kijiji. Financially (and emotionally) its a much bigger hit. Lesson is you always need to see the product (not the box as I stupidly did) and check the settings to ensure it's legit.
So now I'm beginning to form a different perspective on SP scam ... at least the lesson was only a couple hundred dollars and not $1500!
Live and always keep learning my friends!

 

[xix]

1500 from kijiji???? that alone is red flag,
How much is the phone at the Apple store?

 

[Ponderling]

I was pursued by peddlers while on holiday in Paris France a few years ago in one market.
One flogging 'Real Apple Phones at Great Prices.
In broken English as only North Africans in that country can speak.

They would not leave me alone.
The next peddlar to the phone guy was flogging chains and jewelry hanging all over his body at me as well.

So I say to the guy pestering me about the phone: OK, but on my terms.
They both shut up.
I speak slowly and clearly in English, as mon oral fracais ain't nothing to write home about.

I tell the phone guy I will buy the phone and phone case, and from the jewelry guy a long chain.
I will attach one end of the chain to the phone case.

And the other end to the phone hustlers foreskin.
He will follow me around carefully like a dog at heel for the few days, until I fly home.

If the Real Apple Phone stops working, we will go the the Apple Store.
I will use the chain to drag him there.

And I will keep 'pulling his chain; until an OEM phone is bought there by him to replace the 'Real one' he sold me, if it stops working.

The jewelry guy comprehends first, and starts laughing, and fires something to the other guy en-patois.
The phone guy starts chanting 'Non Non Non' and backing away.

Rest of the time in that market I was left alone.

 

[steelcitysid]

I was pursued by peddlers while on holiday in Paris France a few years ago in one market.
One flogging 'Real Apple Phones at Great Prices.
In broken English as only North Africans in that country can speak.

They were most certainly stolen(pickpocketed)

 

[curr3n_c1000]

Sorry this happened to you, but at the same time you have to be smarter.

I do plenty of high value transactions on kijiji and always have my caution on high.

If you want to play safe, stick to ebay.

 

[locknload]

Sorry this happened to you, but at the same time you have to be smarter.

I do plenty of high value transactions on kijiji and always have my caution on high.

If you want to play safe, stick to ebay.

Thanks. I have bought phones in the past but i was able to turn it on and look at the settings. Yeah that was completely stupid of me.

 

[xix]

Thanks. I have bought phones in the past but i was able to turn it on and look at the settings. Yeah that was completely stupid of me.

I respect you for this statement. It does happen to all of us once in a while even when we are at our best.