I Found a Chinese Distributor For PS3

[DAWeinG]

You seriously couldn't tell that the email was a scam just by reading it?

 

[DasFox]

No I wasn't sent that letter. Koing, sorry I said, "North America" as in ALL of it, us and our northern buddies, which should be 400K for all of us.

ALOHA

 

[DasFox]

Gaming consoles are not my area of business that I make my living in, but as a PC geek I thought I might try to do some business with this, but it's obvious my timing isn't the greatest. Is there still the possibility of finding a legit distributor to buy at least 100 of these?

ALOHA & THANKS

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

There is extremely slim to no chance that this is legit. At around this time last year, lots of people got screwed trying to buy XBOX 360's from Chinese dealers in the same manner that you're trying to buy your PS3s. They organized group buys, went through middlemen, went directly to the "dealers," but ultimately ALL of them got conned. It doesn't matter what the quantity was; 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, all of them got screwed. People who bought 1,000 and then took orders from other people screwed both themselves and their customers.

Think about what happens when you wire the money to these guys and they don't deliver. You have NO recourse. The Chinese government will not care about your case. The US government has no jurisdiction. You can't take them to collections like a regular business because they weren't a business to begin with. When you try to find them, they will have disappeared.

The only possible ways for this to even remotely work is:

1. You pay by credit card and can do a chargeback. Very very unlikely that they will take credit cards. Dealers, both legit and scammers, just don't do it. In the world of business much of the ordering is done on account anyway.
2. They use COD and you get to inspect the products *yourself* when the items are delivered, and then you release payment. You will pretty much have to inspect all 1000.
3. Fly and buy. You fly over there, inspect the units, and fly them back yourself. You will pretty much have to inspect all 1000.

Since there's no chance that anyone has PS3's, all above points are pretty much moot. They might tell you that they'll use a third party nationally renowned inspection agency like Hellman's and tell you so wire the payment to Hellman's. This is a fake Hellman's account. They may send you a photo of a sign with your name on it next to a mound of PS3 boxes. This is fake. They may go through *legit* dealers, and when you buy from those dealers but they never get supplied you better hope that those legit dealers are honorable enough to refund your money, because if they do they will be footing the bill themselves.

Just put your $500,000 into an interest bearing account and be done with it.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: DasFox
No I wasn't sent that letter. Koing, sorry I said, "North America" as in ALL of it, us and our northern buddies, which should be 400K for all of us.

ALOHA

I still heard it was 150-200k for America which includes North America. I could be wrong and this is only what I heard and ahve red.

Koing

 

[DaveSimmons]

The sounds just like other common "need a business partner" scams. Given the amount of money involved they may have one working PS3 sample, and perhaps a stack of empty cases to bait the hook.

They've probably bribed and/or are related to the public officiials in their area, so yuo'll have no recourse once they have your money.

If Sony had "lost" 1,000 units it would be a major news story given how much Sony has had to cut deliveries. And there is no way they would have intentionally diverted 1,000 from Wal-Mart and GameStop to some Chinese company without its own existing distribution channels.

Edit: and no, there is no way you can find a supply of even 1-2 units let alone 100. CompUSA is making customers buy a plasma or DLP TV just to set a PS3, and everyone in the world knows about eBay.

 

[mooncancook]

Chances are, you might get a few units while the other 900 something are back-ordered (or whatever excuse they come up with), and if you are lucky you might get the rest of your order in 12 months or so. Worse yet you get totally scammed.