Nov. 15th, 2011. Think Bernie Madoff was one of the biggest con/scam artists of our time?. Well think again. I have been registered on ioffer since September 2005 selling, buying, and trading. Ever since I logged on from day 1 their(LOL) customer service has been "non-existant", when sellers or buyers have issues on ioffer and attempt to use their so-called customer service, buyers and sellers are always replied back to with the same pre-fabricated cut and paste automated generic replies from a virtual entity called "Andy" who seems to able to only reply back only three or four days later(if you're lucky that is) with vague and nebulous suggestions which eventually send you back to ioffer's FAQ, inotherwords the run-a-round. Their automated non-live-person customer service serves as defelctor and they won't even try to suggest or guide you through some sort of "real" help, instead it always ends with ".for more info please go to our FAQ" - which should be called "FU" instead of "FAQ".
Trust me after five bloody years on this site I can validate that ioffer excels and specializes in creating more problems for buyers and sellers than trying to help either parties in any helpful or mediative way - they just don't wanna hear or care about it simple as that as long as they get their$ cut first - then you're pretty much left to fend for yourself. As a matter of fact ioffer's ranking in terms of "people who would use this site or recomend it to others" is the lowest of the lowest in countless on-line rating sites(including here) and consumer reports that abound the'net.
Hmmm I wonder why that is? Furthermore 99% of all US/North American buyers who deal with vendors from overseas like Asia, or Africa either never receive their goods, even when the goods are counterfiets or knock-offs 5 times out of 10 they won't even get those. Instead the seller will have upped and dissappeared, or ceased listing the item altogether so the buyer can't even go back and locate it again. So when you see that Gucci bag which is half-price of the real retail price('cause it's a knock-off) or those Gucci loafers at quarter of the retail price(yes it's too good to be true.), and even if hypothetically speaking you could live with an OK imitation - the chances are even more against you if deal with overseas vendors since neither the United States Better Business Bureau nor the FBI have any real clout or jurisdiction in those parts of the world to begin with, so those scam artist sellers can swindle US/North American buyers with complete total impunity and get away with it scott-free to boot. again provided ioffer made money off the transaction first no matter how fraudulent, since ioffer's invoicing system(wether an item sells for price or not) automatically deducts their fees first - even before a buyer's paid for an item - how's that for sticking it to sellers. When I first started off on ioffer back in 2005 I could use PayPal to pay off my ioffer account, however over the years PayPal has been overwhelmed by all the flack from sellers(justly complaining about fees for items that never sold) and even more overwhelmingly so from ripped-off buyers, that a couple of months back PayPal severed all ties/links through ioffer's site, leaving sellers out in the cold who had gotten used to using PayPal as a preferred payment method. To add insult to injury ioffer.com send out no prior notifications that PayPal would no longer be accepting payments through ioffer's site, and then ioffer insideously tries to coerce sellers into trying to use their own crappy unsafe equivalent of PayPal entitled "AlertPay" which isn't even secure and required sellers to leave a retainer too, not to mention that "AlertPay" charges add up more to than what PayPal takes. nice right? Ioffer will implement changes on a whim without any prior notifications, they turn a blind eye to everything but are shrewd and saavy enough to rake in cash from both side of the fences as in counterfeit goods and the also from the other 5% of decent and legit sellers who try to survive on ioffer. Ioffer offers absolutely no buyer protection at all, and even less so for sellers. In the five years I've had to stuggle through ioffer they still list the same P.O. Box address in San Francisco, but thier coorparate sham offices had changed over the years starting off with Manila in the Phillipinnes, then Las Vegas USA, and now Montreal and India? See how many times it's changed just in that short span of time. If that is not an indicator of something that smells fishy and rotten I dunno what is. So my advice to any potential buyers or sellers out there thinking of using ioffer as an alternative to eBay is. DON'T! However if you enjoy being abused and ripped-off royally and left naked and battered in the rain - the ioffer will be your salvation - all others please abstain from this nafarious site. Counterfeits, knock-offs, no(real) customer service, overseas sellers who prey on buyers like sharks in a feeding frenzy who take your money and then vanish into thin air. oh yeah baby ioffer is all that and a lot more! In closing just in case you don't heed my advise here it goes one more time. AVOID IOFFER AT ALL COSTS!(Litterally and figuratively). Ebay, amazon.com, sell.com just to name a few are far far more secure, have a loyal customer base and repeat buyers galore, they treat buyers or sellers like people and not like violent mugging victims, which is how most buyers tend feel after they've dealt with ioffer.com - the number one pondscum of all auction, selling, trading on the internet. I'm sure if a Federal forensic accountant went through all the fraud that ioffer's perprated in the time they've been in operation it would exceed what Bernie Madoff scammed from the rich and affluent upper-crust folks he shafted.'nuff said on that vile and malicious site. BUYER(and Sellers too.) BEWARE - YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED. IOFFER= MASS RIP-OFF ON A GLOBAL SCALE!
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