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IMEI-Check used to run by a guy called Florin Mandache. He always seemed very good, helpful and I think was highly regarded, from what I've read on various forums.
Suddenly his unlocking site has insisted that you need to send them some Photo-ID in addition to the PayPal payment. Hang on a minute, fraud is not his problem, that's up to PayPal and PayPal say they do not need it.
In my case the payment has gone from PayPal to IMEI-Check but they're still insisting on Photo-ID
So I inquired to [email protected] as to why Photo-ID was needed as just about everybody advises you nowadays, not to give out that kinda stuff on the net!
The reply "Below" was not like any reply I'd seen Florin make on bulletin boards before (his english is better!) and now I'm very nervous about using them...
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: Question regarding fraud
Hello,
We want to make sure that you are the real owner of the account and nothing else. We are LTD company, and we signed the data protection act.
If you still worried about sending the ID, i recomend you to use one of our reseller www.unlockitnow.com.
Regards,
IMEI-CHECK Team
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Unlockitnow.com are a reseller???..
Does anybody have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Dai
Hi there,
We had to introduce this protection to avoid people buying with hijacked accounts , because two weeks ago we cought one of the big scammers/phishers and now police is investigating this and paypal and ebay need (a much to long) time to investigate.
So to protect ourself we had to install this extra protection.
The seller is not getting any money if was used by hijacked paypal accounts. Even worse we have to pay GBP7 / reversed transaction...
To keep this service online we request something which proves identity of the paypal account holder. So the hijacker (which sold for 15GBP on ebay) will not have a chance anymore. We have to continue until police arrested this guy (full address and name are known)
Regarding paypal saying not to send anything is not true! Paypal says NOT TO SEND CREDIT CARD DETAILS OR BANK DETAILS (we never ask for them).
Also here is a quote from our paypal manager (when we said to them that we had to introduce this verification because PayPal don't protect us and our sells droped):
"If you conduct business on the internet, you should be putting processes
in place to minimise your risk as much as possible, so the id
verification is an excellent idea. As a business person, I presume you
weighed up the costs of losing out to fraudulent activity relative to
the drop in sales. These processes are your responsibility, not
PayPal's. PayPal enables you to transact quickly and safely with buyers,
they are not obliged to absorb losses you incur in doing so. Most
businesses factor in a percentage to cover these sort of losses
regardless of whether it is the physical or online environment."
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CREDIT CARD FRAUD IS A CRIME![/quote]
Does anyone knows how to unlock simlock from qtek s100 for free or i have to pay from http://www.imei-check.co.uk/ ?
You have to pay sorry
You have to pay sorry
even if i want to pay, i dont have any credit card... I supose there is no other way...
you have to pay by paypal, no credit card needed...
EH
For sign up on paypal you need a debit or credit card and i dont have any...
are you sure there is no other way?
giving some money to a person who does have a creditcard or debitcard ?
kredo said:
For sign up on paypal you need a debit or credit card and i dont have any...
are you sure there is no other way?
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Singning up tp Paypal does not recquire a credit card. WIthout a credit card you can transfer money from your bank account to your Paypal account, for instance with online banking. Only thing is that transfering money this way takes some time ( just like booking from your account to any bank account).
And the first time they check your bank account with your bank when signing up, so it takes some time before you can use your Paypal account. But once you have it, just make sure there are enough funds on it and buy away on ebay or other sites!
I am using it for over a year now without credit card and I am quite content with it. Only thing is that without credit card you cannot become a verified Paypal user, but I have never had any difficulties not being verified user.
I am happy to buy apps that I think are worth the money but I think it's totally unfair for google to have apps priced in Dollers / Euro's for UK people.
The reason being, if I were to purchase an app for say 99 Cents or $1.99 or Euros, I get charged £1.50 fee by the bank.
Surely google checkout can convert the price to the location of the phone / user and avoid extra charges on top?
You need to speak to your bank cos it sounds Like your being ripped off .. the 1.50 fee only normally applies to atm withdrawals . The most I've been charged for an app at 99c or $1 is around 4p extra think it should be standard so u need to take it up with ur bank !
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I am happy to buy apps that I think are worth the money but I think it's totally unfair for google to have apps priced in Dollers / Euro's for UK people.
The reason being, if I were to purchase an app for say 99 Cents or $1.99 or Euros, I get charged £1.50 fee by the bank.
Surely google checkout can convert the price to the location of the phone / user and avoid extra charges on top?
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I feel ya...... I have the same problem also, getting overcharged for apps because Google has first graders mathematics skills to convert money.
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mancuk29 said:
You need to speak to your bank cos it sounds Like your being ripped off .. the 1.50 fee only normally applies to atm withdrawals . The most I've been charged for an app at 99c or $1 is around 4p extra think it should be standard so u need to take it up with ur bank !
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My bank deem the transactions as currency conversion as it's $ or Euro's to sterling.
I can't see why Google checkout cannot just sort it at their end.
I'd change your greedy bank mate! Mine does not charge for converting and the conversion rate should take into account costs.
Its a US company. Why shouldnt they charge in $?
bonerp said:
I'd change your greedy bank mate! Mine does not charge for converting and the conversion rate should take into account costs.
Its a US company. Why shouldnt they charge in $?
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They charge in pounds and euros and yen as well..
Yeah my bank does this too, its annoying to say the least.
I spoke to them today and they said there is nothing they could do.
My Google checkout account uses my Lloyds TSB credit card as the payment method and I'm not getting charged anything extra when I buy apps listed in USD.
Time to change your bank I reckon
Im with alliance and leicester no charge either
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foner78 said:
My Google checkout account uses my Lloyds TSB credit card as the payment method and I'm not getting charged anything extra when I buy apps listed in USD.
Time to change your bank I reckon
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Using a LloydsTSB debit card I do! Hmmm, perhaps I should reactivate that credit card...
daverave999 said:
Using a LloydsTSB debit card I do! Hmmm, perhaps I should reactivate that credit card...
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Interesting. I only use credit cards for online transactions, just to get that extra bit of cover. Actually another factor... my credit cards are the "Airmiles Duo", so one mastercard and one AMEX, and it's the AMEX card I generally use for Google Checkout. Don't know whether that's a factor
The developer choses the currency he wants, not Google. I really think you have a problem with your bank so it's not fair to blame Google.
pascanu said:
The developer choses the currency he wants, not Google. I really think you have a problem with your bank so it's not fair to blame Google.
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Yeah but google could make it so that all apps are paid for in the currency of the consumer, like apple do on the app store.
Have you considered moving onto the continent? ;-)
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Have you considered moving onto the continent? ;-)
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If we lose to Algeria, I'll be considering moving to a cave!
So what banks are you guys with that don't charge you?
I am pretty sure I never got charged when I had a Maestro card.
Well I reactivated my LloydsTSB Mastercard and ordered something from overseas. No charge this time so I think I'm going to switch...
I use my Halifax Visa card and have never been charged for a transaction when paying for items in US Dollars, Euros, or £ Sterling.
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Call your president to finitely get the euro in england and change your bank ;p
This thread prompted me to check - just found out i've been charged £1.25 per transaction. This is with a natwest bank account
Has anyone heard this news? http://blog.taotaotech.com/2011/03/07/govoice-will-be-completely-free-soon/. A quick quote from Nick's blog post:
While I am readying an update to GoVoice, I think I should also explain what I plan to do with it in the future.
Here it is. GoVoice will be free.
It will not happen in the upcoming release yet, but it will definitely happen in the one after next.
What does it mean to you? Depending on who you are, it means different things:
1.If you are currently a trial user, then you will get all the features of the paid version (with a caveat, details later)
2.If you are currently a paid user, you will still be able to use the paid version through the upcoming release. After that, the paid version will be removed from the marketplace, and you will need to download the free version.
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I for one, believe this is not good news. What does everyone else think this means for GoVoice?
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Has anyone heard this news? http://blog.taotaotech.com/2011/03/07/govoice-will-be-completely-free-soon/. A quick quote from Nick's blog post:
I for one, believe this is not good news. What does everyone else think this means for GoVoice?
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How can that not be good? If its ad-driven then its been proven to be the best way to go..
Having actually read the link now... I'm not sure what to think, he really doesn't even give a reason for scaling back, I figured he was just switching the revenue method, but he's eliminating the most important features altogether
The reason I think it's bad is because he seems to have given up on it. It's easily the best Google Voice app on the WP7 marketplace and I just don't want to see it become obsolete if Google changes its API or something.
If he makes the only available version ad-driven, what about those of us who paid for the app? That'd be a little ridiculous to now have to see ads. He's going to make everyone see ads and not give refunds to those who paid to not see ads?
My take: it is cost prohibitive to maintain a dedicated push server with the increasing demand in bandwidth. His ISP or hosting provider is probably making a killing for his monthly service bill.
foxbat121 said:
My take: it is cost prohibitive to maintain a dedicated push server with the increasing demand in bandwidth. His ISP or hosting provider is probably making a killing for his monthly service bill.
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That sounds like a reasonable assumption. I just hope we don't lose push for GoVoice altogether.
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My take: it is cost prohibitive to maintain a dedicated push server with the increasing demand in bandwidth. His ISP or hosting provider is probably making a killing for his monthly service bill.
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With everybody who has paid for the app he shouldn't have a problem. There are numerous alternatives than hosting it off a home server and they're all decently cheap, Beezz has proven this on a free, ad-free application...
FiyaFleye said:
With everybody who has paid for the app he shouldn't have a problem. There are numerous alternatives than hosting it off a home server and they're all decently cheap, Beezz has proven this on a free, ad-free application...
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Obviously it does cause a problem. Hosting is all about how much bandwidth you use. If you use enough to catch the eye of your ISP, your server will be immediately terminated or you will be billed $$$. Besides, hosting in your home is violating your service agreement.
So, it is either he had too few paid customers to cover the hosting cost or too many that his bill just went astronomical.
Besides, you all just paid one time for the app. He has to pay his service provider every month.
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Obviously it does cause a problem. Hosting is all about how much bandwidth you use. If you use enough to catch the eye of your ISP, your server will be immediately terminated or you will be billed $$$. Besides, hosting in your home is violating your service agreement.
So, it is either he had too few paid customers to cover the hosting cost or too many that his bill just went astronomical.
Besides, you all just paid one time for the app. He has to pay his service provider every month.
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Did you quote my post without reading it?
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Did you quote my post without reading it?
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I would ask the same question to you.
I once hosted a small 17KB DLL on my ISP's web server as a freeware download and a month later received warning letter from my ISP to take it down or pay $$$. This is not even my own server, but the free web hosting server of my ISP.
What GoVoice should have done in the first place is to offer the Home Server web app for free for anyone who wants to host it for himself (and may be a few friends), sort of Bring Your Own Hosting instead of taking on all the load on his own server.
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Obviously it does cause a problem. Hosting is all about how much bandwidth you use. If you use enough to catch the eye of your ISP, your server will be immediately terminated or you will be billed $$$. Besides, hosting in your home is violating your service agreement.
So, it is either he had too few paid customers to cover the hosting cost or too many that his bill just went astronomical.
Besides, you all just paid one time for the app. He has to pay his service provider every month.
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Bandwidth is cheap - setting up a VPS or colo-server to handle all the notifications you could ever doesn't have to cost you more than say $30/mnt - and that leaves you plenty of room for future growth. If an app doesn't pull $30/mnt it's not worth maintaining TBH.
Also, hosting on your residential pipe doesn't necessarily violate your ISPs T&Cs. My ISP allows me to host any type of server I wish and I push, on average, about 1TB of data thru my pfSense each month. The company connection averages around 30Mbps 24/7 and runs me roughly $150/mnt although that plan allows me upto 100Mbps 24/7 (and includes a dual Xeon 8GB 1TB dedicated server).
It kinda sells itself, but after losing $350 due to someone receiving my item, Delivery confirmation confirming it and PayPal still refunding their money, I have decided to make the transition to other means of accepting payments.
They have a failsafe method like PayPal (link), and they charge no fees, without having to use an unsafe "gifting" method.
It wouldn't be too hard to implement, and it would help those of us who want a safe method to pay without the unfairness of paypal.
agreed. Haven't used paypal in a couple of years, except when using a CC without logging in. No way I'd ever give them a chance after I got shafted on an ebay sale...
Can you give an example link to donate?
At the moment the system uses an e-mail address to build a PayPal URL. I don't know the limitations of the plugin we used for this, nor if we can implement it, but this info might help.
Thanks
Dave
Sure, It is outlined here. You need an amazon account, but once signed in, you go here
I think it would help people hesitant of using PayPal and their corrupt practices. You send money for free, and you have a net to protect yourself.
I've heard you mention this before, just checked out the website and looks like a good, viable alternative.
Do you know if it's a worldwide thing, or just limited to the US? Amazon won't ship anything to Australia, so I'm assuming this won't work with an Australian credit card or bank account. I couldn't see much relating to International users.
I like that there's no fees involved turnaround time on withdrawing funds to bank accounts isn't too flash though
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I've heard you mention this before, just checked out the website and looks like a good, viable alternative.
Do you know if it's a worldwide thing, or just limited to the US? Amazon won't ship anything to Australia, so I'm assuming this won't work with an Australian credit card or bank account. I couldn't see much relating to International users.
I like that there's no fees involved turnaround time on withdrawing funds to bank accounts isn't too flash though
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Money transfer services are currently only available in the United States
quote from their site...
A shame, it looks a viable competitor to Paypal, and I'm sure many people would use it, given most people have bought from Amazon anyway.
pulser_g2 said:
Money transfer services are currently only available in the United States
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A shame, it looks a viable competitor to Paypal, and I'm sure many people would use it, given most people have bought from Amazon anyway.
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Cheers Pulser, must've had a 'boy look'
If it were International I'd jump on it in a heartbeat. Very much over paying PayPal's ridiculous fees and losing both money and phones. I'm out about $1700 thanks to PayPal.
Hopefully, it's only a matter of time...