Some of THE most gullible people on earth are on Facebook. Case in point.

[John Backlund]

This 'ad' has popped up several times on my Facebook newsfeed, and immediately I knew it was a classic scam by the absolutely ridiculously low price asked for it. It's OBVIOUSLY an exclusive, unique, and quality item, but unbelievably (to me), people had blindly sent them their $80 or so, thinking that this thing would be dropped at their front door in a week or two

All it takes is a minute or so to do a quick Google search for a '1950 Chevy 3100 tool cabinet', and up pops the authentic item, which is no longer being made, and when it did, it cost between $5000 and $9000, depending on options.

And as always, the fake glowing testimonials...

Here's what the fools who sent these dirtbags their money actually received for their $80...

And here's the real story....

It sometimes scares me how incredibly gullible some people can be.

 

[Mjark]

Gullible people are to found everywhere. The problem is Facebook doesn't properly vet their advertisers.

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

ah, I got warned off face book a long long time ago. I didn't like the interface. and never went back , I know that some people that make great FX'S hang a shingle there. Well, I guess that I'm just superstious or some thing.

 

[Dennyf]

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. At least you had to be a kid to fall for this:

 

[MTPoteet]

That's not the only thing those fools on FB believe.

 

[schmee]

Always pay with Paypal.

 

[telemnemonics]

While I'm grateful for stuff like penicillin and modern dentistry etc, I think the price we pay in cancelling evolution is mass numbers of unfit humans consuming resources to a degree that will soon bring us all to extinction.

 

[Wallaby]

Idiocracy.

 

[Quexoz]

The problem is Facebook doesn't properly vet their advertisers.

Yet they are able to fact check & delete me every time I post...anything, instantaneously.

 

[John Backlund]

That's not the only thing those fools on FB believe.

Over the past several(?) years I've watched the entire place become just an infested cesspool of openly operating scammers, and I've yet to see Facebook give the boot to any of them. Virtually all of them are obviously 'offshore' entities (cough, cough, China, cough) and are apparently beyond any legal means of curtailing their blatantly deceptive scams as well as copyright and trademark thievery activities, but Facebook could do something about it, but they don't, which makes them the willing accomplices in all of this. Harley-Davidson's logos and trademarks are constantly being pirated and sold on Facebook by, again, 'offshore' scammers, and I would think that Harley-Davidson's lawyers would be able to give Facebook some hefty legal problems for allowing their pirated logos and trademarks to be so openly shilled on Facebook.

 

[John Backlund]

ah, I got warned off face book a long long time ago. I didn't like the interface. and never went back , I know that some people that make great FX'S hang a shingle there. Well, I guess that I'm just superstious or some thing.

A few months ago, after I had made a critical post on one of the scammer's ads, which although not vulgar, did mention their country of origin, I was sent a message by Facebook warning me about using 'hate speech', and that my comment went against their 'Community Standards'.

What a joke.

 

[John Backlund]

This thread may well 'go off the rails', but if it does, I didn't intend for it to become political, just an incredulous comment about the tool chest scam, and Facebook's amazing tolerance for such open thievery on their site.

 

[John Backlund]

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. At least you had to be a kid to fall for this:

I didn't fall for it, but I wanted to. There was also a cheesy cardboard tank advertised at about the same time as the sub

I wanted that one too.

 

[tery]

I think I will send for one too.

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

That's not the only thing those fools on FB believe.

that's a discreet way of putting it.

 

[telemnemonics]

Over the past several(?) years I've watched the entire place become just an infested cesspool of openly operating scammers, and I've yet to see Facebook give the boot to any of them. Virtually all of them are obviously 'offshore' entities (cough, cough, China, cough) and are apparently beyond any legal means of curtailing their blatantly deceptive scams as well as copyright and trademark thievery activities, but Facebook could do something about it, but they don't, which makes them the willing accomplices in all of this. Harley-Davidson's logos and trademarks are constantly being pirated and sold on Facebook by, again, 'offshore' scammers, and I would think that Harley-Davidson's lawyers would be able to give Facebook some hefty legal problems for allowing their pirated logos and trademarks to be so openly shilled on Facebook.

We may be in the IP zombie apocalypse right now, combined with the scammer epidemic.
What comes next?
Equal rights for scammers and IP thieves?
Then negotiation? Maybe put them on reservations?
How can they possibly have rights?
And where would we send them to operate with their protected rights?

What?
We shop on AliBaba and love our little Chibson collections?
What?
We buy counterfeit Fender decals to put on our Chinese partscasters?
What?
Pogo was forgotten?

Just because somebody says it was stolen doesn't mean it was ever ours!
Pick an enemy and attack!!!

 

[telemnemonics]

A few months ago, after I had made a critical post on one of the scammer's ads, which although not vulgar, did mention their country of origin, I was sent a message by Facebook warning me about using 'hate speech', and that my comment went against their 'Community Standards'.

What a joke.

It's a meta eat meta world we live in...

 

[Tele T]

Commit Facebook Suicide...Free yourself!!!

 

[guitar_paul1]

Yup. I deleted my FB acct and have not regretted it. They even let me keep a copy of some of the personal info they had gathered.

 

[telleutelleme]

It's amazing how far back the old saying "You get what you pay for" goes.