OLX Camera equipment: crazy pricing???

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I know we'd had a thread on here about suspected stolen equipment being sold on Bidorbuy, but does anybody know what the deal is with all the crazy 'it must be stolen' prices being advertised on OLX (especially in the camera equipment section)?

Just today I spotted these gems:
DJI Mavic Pro Fly More Combo - R1 300
JVC GY-HD200E professional camcorder - R1 700
Canon EOS 7D - R3 500
Canon EOS 700D - R1 200

How about that? A R20 000+ piece of kit going for only R1 300, and barely used as well! Or the R10K+ camera for only R1 200! Now those are bargains worth being stabbed in a back alley for ... which I suspect is what might happen.

I phoned the seller for the EOS 700D and the guy did ... err ... not sound legit. I asked him why he's selling and he says he needs the money (selling a 'barely used' 700D for only R1 200 is "my kids are being ransomed" level of desperation). Then he cut the call off quickly promising to phone me back, only he didn't.

What's the consensus here? A new breed of scammers trying to hop on and con the unwary? Or even worse, a human trafficking ring trying to lure in their next unwilling candidates for kidney donations?
 
YingYang said:
I posted this a couple of weeks ago related to pawn shops: https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/870835-Pawn-shop-valuers
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Yes but that's just you getting lucky :P Some poor fool valued something very valuable incredibly low, and some other even poorer fool accepted whatever was offered (maybe a thief). All of these people on OLX are supposedly the direct sellers, so it makes you wonder: what is OLX doing to protect their own credibility from people like that?
 
Those are fake and scams. When you contact them they use fake profiles and if you ask to see the item or meet they say they are overseas.
 
skimread said:
Those are fake and scams. When you contact them they use fake profiles and if you ask to see the item or meet they say they are overseas.
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What it looks like to me is somebody who got a stolen iPad that has been rendered useless by its owner locking it remotely.
 
skimread said:
Those are fake and scams. When you contact them they use fake profiles and if you ask to see the item or meet they say they are overseas.
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What are they looking to get out if this?

Do they ask for payment upfront or something?
 
Always the same story. They're too busy to meet or out of the country. But do an EFT and their driver will drop it off, don't you worry. :p

Do a Google image search on the pictures or a regular search on the wording and you will often find the original ads on Gumtree or something overseas. A dead giveaway is also the American plugs on equipment.
 
Yeah well, I'm steering away from OLX. I ended up getting a great deal on a DSLR from a lady with a Gumtree advert, and she hadn't even posted any photos with her advert. It just caught my attention because of her wording and because she was a woman (you don't see many women on Gumtree), and she ended up being very responsive to my e-mails and did send me photos directly (of the camera you pervs!).
 
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