zamanshop – eBay Seller Of Fake Flash Removed From eBay

zamanshop frauded many eBayers with fake flash usb drives. He was contacted in a outreach to eBay sellers in the USA. He never responded. This is usually a sign of a seller who knows he is selling counterfeit drives. Sellers who ignore requests to test their drives will be probed and investigated. It is estimated he sold over 1,000 drives to unsuspecting eBayers before…

he was caught. How did that happen? See

http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=zamanshop&Dirn=Received+by

Urgent Update September 15th 2008

We are finding many people searching for this seller.  Please see the post https://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/alert-epcvauxhall-ebay-fake-flash-seller-uk/ . Follow the instructions explained there. You are still able to file a claim or dispute with Paypal if you are in the 45 day window.  60 days through eBay.  You can also report your fake to be added to our database.  See the post above to learn more.

But given his score it was not enough. FlashRanger:

I’ve been a busy boy 🙂 Since we last communicated, I purchased a few “FAKE” drives and managed to get one of the sellers (ZAMANSHOP” (he sold over 1,000) removed from ebay. I sent several people xx xxxxxl xxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx One seller actually did what I did… He tested his drives and pulled all his auctions. I am on a mission to help our cause and won’t stop for anything. Tonight I plan to buy a couple more and expose this fraud once again. 🙂

I’m not sure if I was the only reason zamanshops got booted but I forwarded an email he sent me after I notified him that his flash drives were fake when he asked me to please not notify ebay. LOL. That was the first thing I did after he continued selling them after I knew he knew they were “FAKE”. I called ebay support about 10 times regarding his business ethics and sent numerous emails to the trust and safety department about him.

Certain details had to be removed from above.

There is a sobering consideration. 1,000+ fake flash drives have been unleashed on eBay Buyers. Just click on zamanshop’s score. Adjust to 200 items per page and see what the damage is. Many of these eBayers have no clue, yet. Who is going to contact them? Who is going to warn them? eBay?

If you have bought any of the following drives from zamanshop you are at risk of losing data. Contact eBay and PayPal immediately and demand your refund. Do not use any of these drives to store important data – it will just fall of the fake flash cliff once you exceed the true capacity of the flash drive chip.

Who is FlashRanger? A long standing eBay Seller and Buyer with a perfect score 100% feedback score maintained over many years. His score is in the thousands not hundreds. He was contacted by an Fake Flash Angel and tested his drives. To his horror he discovered he had bought fakes and had started to sell them on eBay. What did he do? What an honest seller does!

1. Stopped listing immediately!
2. Contacted every eBay Buyer and explained
3. Refunded all Buyers

A lot of work, egg on his face, money lost. He had the courage to do what is right.

FlashRanger demonstrates the best in eBay. Honesty. Integrity. He like other honest eBay sellers is not amused to have fraudsters on eBay, damaging the reputation of eBay and lowering confidence in sellers.

He also battled with the source of his fake usb flash drive acquisition, liquidation.com. It was not easy and involved a lot of work.

As far as liquidation.com, every time I spoke with them I mentioned that what they were doing was not only immoral but illegal and I documented my claim with great detail, including a .pdf of the chip inside my drives. Unfortunately, they only kicked off the sellers that I bought from but 2 less people selling them is better than none.

FlashRanger was refunded by liquidation.com – spectacular.

He has been making recommendations everyone wants:

I’m still trying to get them (liquidation.com) to institute a mandatory requirement for people selling these drives to provide proof of what they are selling. I’ve also suggested this to ebay.

This is one of the goals of the FrankenFlash Project .