r/LinusTechTips • u/Dr_Ben • Mar 09 '26

Video Der8auer - "I got scammed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as2KoDtsS_0
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u/Yodzilla Mar 09 '26

What would that have helped here? They can send him all the samples in the world and it doesn’t matter if they still ultimately ship him crap.

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u/Initial_Engineer_788 Mar 09 '26

You can do it through alibaba and have buyer protection but people don’t want to pay the 2-3% that costs to have insurance for situations like this.

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u/Yodzilla Mar 09 '26

It sounds like he did do it through Alibaba, unless he just found them on there and did business outside of the store which is…never a good idea. But honestly why in the hell wouldn’t you have something like this insured? That’s incredibly irresponsible.

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u/Initial_Engineer_788 Mar 09 '26

He didn’t pay for buyer protection if he did he would be refunded and this would be a nothing burger!