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This has got to be a scam, they are selling the nokia N900 for $240 and only except payment via western union. Have any of you done business with them, or hear of them before?

To me this is clearly a scam, but you never know. I'm definatly not sending anyone money via western union.
 
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I ran their first company registry number through the UK database and it matches a company from Camberley in Surrey, called Xotecom Ltd.

Xotecom appears to be owned and managed by a woman named Angela Fehrenbach, and teaches leadership management for blue chip companies.

A little further digging reveals that Zygotec uses at least two different business registry numbers aside this one, although one of them (04484360) matches a zygotec limited which is in essex.

Seems like a scam to me.
 

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It sucks, when people do this. You get your hopes up thinking it may actually be tru, but in your heart you know it isn't. So I entertained it knowing full well, I would never sent this guy my money.

NOKIA rescue me soon, the Dr. says a N900 is the only thing that can save me!!
 
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The age-old adage, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is" yet again rings true. (note, though, that excessive incredulity is your own dang fault, but it's a good rule of thumb)
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I don't think it excessive, if everyone else is saleing a phone for $500 - $640. and you can sale it for $240, then when I ask how you tell me because you buy in bulk. WTH!!! I don't know many retailers that don't buy cell phone stock in bulk. So I would call it Health incredulity.
 
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Scam them back! Tell them you need ten dollars to pay the fee to withdraw the money from the bank to purchase the n900.
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Originally Posted by dekelley1 View Post
I don't think it excessive, if everyone else is saleing a phone for $500 - $640. and you can sale it for $240, then when I ask how you tell me because you buy in bulk. WTH!!! I don't know many retailers that don't buy cell phone stock in bulk. So I would call it Health incredulity.
I agree that it's healthy here; I have a strange need to qualify statements (e.g. Linux might seem too good to be true to some, but it ain't).

totally agree that $240 is implausible at best.
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Scam them back! Tell them you need ten dollars to pay the fee to withdraw the money from the bank to purchase the n900.
lol... I do that sort of thing in response to Nigerian scams. I had one guy going nuts as I repeatedly told him to just deduct my "fee" from the fund he promised, and send me the difference. His patience wore a lot thinner than mine after about 3 times.
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Scam them back! Tell them you need ten dollars to pay the fee to withdraw the money from the bank to purchase the n900.
Thats funny as hell, I told him to send the phone COD. I said that way you don't deliver the phone w/ out payment, and I won't send payment w/ out a phone.

Never got a reply, go figure.
 
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If you believe something like this is true... then you were born on the internet yesterday :P
 
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