DOUBLE U PLANT UK LTD
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ollie989898
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Triplemower
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Proceed with caution! I believe them to be scammers despite being registered at Co House. The pictures on their website are all of immaculate kit for far too cheap prices!!
The website is not viewable with a UK IP address, you get a 403 forbidden error, so someone has I would suggest purposely blocked UK users looking at the site. It can only be viewed by a non UK IP address user. A Finish friend of mine was in the final stages of buying a used Avant loader from them when he asked me to check it over. He had an invoice already, bank details were Burton Trent with lots of notes regards not mentioning a loader on the BACS confirmation etc.
I told him to tell them I would visit their yard to inspect the loader, then came the usual scammer excuses that they would not allow anyone on site etc!
I have reported to Action Fraud
The website is not viewable with a UK IP address, you get a 403 forbidden error, so someone has I would suggest purposely blocked UK users looking at the site. It can only be viewed by a non UK IP address user. A Finish friend of mine was in the final stages of buying a used Avant loader from them when he asked me to check it over. He had an invoice already, bank details were Burton Trent with lots of notes regards not mentioning a loader on the BACS confirmation etc.
I told him to tell them I would visit their yard to inspect the loader, then came the usual scammer excuses that they would not allow anyone on site etc!
I have reported to Action Fraud
Oh yes good idea with Google maps I'll try that .
I was suspicious when their equipment seems very cheap . I am in ireland . They told me you cant visit their premises due to covid and all machinery is 25- 30% cheaper so they can shift machinery . I asked questions about some excavators and they said they were sold but weeks later they are still on their website.
I presume your friend didn't buy anything
Thanks for your help
I was suspicious when their equipment seems very cheap . I am in ireland . They told me you cant visit their premises due to covid and all machinery is 25- 30% cheaper so they can shift machinery . I asked questions about some excavators and they said they were sold but weeks later they are still on their website.
I presume your friend didn't buy anything
Thanks for your help
Triplemower
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Its that old adage, if its too good to be true it probably is!
No my friend told them where to stick it!
No my friend told them where to stick it!
Dave W
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As always. If you need to ask the question you already know the answer.
ollie989898
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If you want to view a blocked IP use a VPN (some browsers allow you to switch them on very easily) and it masks your IP address so you can view something that would otherwise be blocked. Ie, your IP address would appear in somewhere like Sweden or something instead of the UK.
Dave W
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- chesterfield
Wellytrack
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I have my sympathies for certain people getting conned, or scammed. It should still be very obvious however to those potential buyers to have a realistic idea on a value and use their judgment as to what is legitimate.
If anyone believed that a company could sell at 30% below average prices elsewhere they are a prime and ripe mark for the taking, in a way the scammer isn’t at fault.
Some people are just too hungry and and bring it on themselves.
If anyone believed that a company could sell at 30% below average prices elsewhere they are a prime and ripe mark for the taking, in a way the scammer isn’t at fault.
Some people are just too hungry and and bring it on themselves.
Dave W
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- chesterfield
You call it greedy ,I call it a good deal .I'm sure you have shopped in bargain basement shops , second hand shops, so greedy is not a word I would use .
Greedy people are people who have more than enough but just want more and more , so people who try and make their money do more for them would not be classed as greedy in my book, just frugal.
Greedy people are people who have more than enough but just want more and more , so people who try and make their money do more for them would not be classed as greedy in my book, just frugal.
Goweresque
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Its not quite the same is it, buying something cheap that's in front of you and you can walk away with it, vs sending your money to a random website that could be located anywhere in the world, with zero guarantee you'll ever see it or your purchase again?
If some bloke you'd never met turned up at your door offering you a stupendous deal on some expensive item if you handed over the cash right there and then, and he'd deliver the item to you a week later, what would you do? Rush to the bank to get your cash? Or tell him to go forth and multiply for taking you for a fool?
I assume the latter, so why would you behave any differently for a website?
No one is handing cash anywhere especially me said no one that has ever bought anything on website . Imagine buying something cheap on line it's not as if products are sold on line it makes the world go round . Get real man you check things first . I'm not sure how you buy anything I have heard enough now
Wellytrack
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Did you actually read what I said? The majority of people conned through no fault of their own I feel for, and those who are vulnerable or elderly even more so.
Those who though a combination of barely inconceivable stupidity and/or greed no.
Consider this. Do you think it even remotely possible a company could sell you for example a £30k tractor for £20k? Is there profit for the company at £20k?
Would you sell something for 70% of its value?
If not, why would you consider them legit?
If greed or the buzz of an uncannily opportune situation can make you giddy and override the built in self preservation switch I say you deserve what’s coming to you.
Oh, and my moral barometer is functioning just fine thankyou.
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