macspite
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Not sure whether to put this here or in the eBay/Amazon watch threads.
I have spent the day exchanging e-mails with an American Lawyer called Sarah Downes who has told me I have won a $500 voucher.
Yeah, right and I'm a Nigerian banker who needs help in moving $8.7million ...
The mail had a certain degree of truth about it - I had filled in a survey on the site named and it did address me by name. So I responded asking for further proof.
The site was http://www.abine.com/ who provide online privacy tools - I have their Do Not Track installed as a Chrome plugin right now and it blocks adtrackers, tracking companies, social and ad networks.
Sarah sent back a fairly convincing email and I found a picture of her in an online article. Wish my lawyer looked the same.
Short of it is that I now have $500 credit on amazon.com
(The more I write this the more it sounds like a con email itself!)
Not sure if I can get that transferred to Amazon.co.uk, if I can then good, if not I have a slight problem.
Either I buy things less than $50 a time including post and packing or I pay duty and handling on stuff landed in the UK. If the item costs $40 and p+p is $11 then I pay 20% on top of that $51 and then another $12 - 20 to the carrier for customs clearance. I object to paying possible another 30 odd dollars on top of a $60 purchase
Now - and here it really starts to sound like a con - if someone Stateside wanted a watch from Amazon I could buy it, discount by 10% and, when we were both happy it was on its way to them, get money into my PayPal account so I could give eBay UK a good tonking...
Now to see whether a transfer from .com to .co.uk is feasible, haven't seen an easy way to do it
I have spent the day exchanging e-mails with an American Lawyer called Sarah Downes who has told me I have won a $500 voucher.
Yeah, right and I'm a Nigerian banker who needs help in moving $8.7million ...
The mail had a certain degree of truth about it - I had filled in a survey on the site named and it did address me by name. So I responded asking for further proof.
The site was http://www.abine.com/ who provide online privacy tools - I have their Do Not Track installed as a Chrome plugin right now and it blocks adtrackers, tracking companies, social and ad networks.
Sarah sent back a fairly convincing email and I found a picture of her in an online article. Wish my lawyer looked the same.
Short of it is that I now have $500 credit on amazon.com
(The more I write this the more it sounds like a con email itself!)
Not sure if I can get that transferred to Amazon.co.uk, if I can then good, if not I have a slight problem.
Either I buy things less than $50 a time including post and packing or I pay duty and handling on stuff landed in the UK. If the item costs $40 and p+p is $11 then I pay 20% on top of that $51 and then another $12 - 20 to the carrier for customs clearance. I object to paying possible another 30 odd dollars on top of a $60 purchase
Now - and here it really starts to sound like a con - if someone Stateside wanted a watch from Amazon I could buy it, discount by 10% and, when we were both happy it was on its way to them, get money into my PayPal account so I could give eBay UK a good tonking...
Now to see whether a transfer from .com to .co.uk is feasible, haven't seen an easy way to do it