Beware Scam! Skystone Shop
09-10-2013, 08:36 PM
#1
Beware Scam! Skystone Shop
Just advance warning to Singapore RCers.
I did a search on google and came up with Skystone shop located at Batam selling RC kits at insane prices. A Slash 4/4 Ultimate for less then $150 and a HPI Flux HP for $180. Seems too good to be true so I gave a call to City Square Mall where they are supposedly located. I asked the CSO if there's such a shop there and they said there is no such shop there. I also checked the Mall website and no such shop exists in their directory. They only accept money transfers which means once u send it, your money is gone forever!! Don't be scammed. I thought of going there myself and checking it out since its only a ferry away but after this, I won't even bother wasting my time and money checking it out. However, the website layout seems somewhat familiar. Must've been copied from a real RC store website. Lesson Learnt, if its too good to be true, it probably is.
I did a search on google and came up with Skystone shop located at Batam selling RC kits at insane prices. A Slash 4/4 Ultimate for less then $150 and a HPI Flux HP for $180. Seems too good to be true so I gave a call to City Square Mall where they are supposedly located. I asked the CSO if there's such a shop there and they said there is no such shop there. I also checked the Mall website and no such shop exists in their directory. They only accept money transfers which means once u send it, your money is gone forever!! Don't be scammed. I thought of going there myself and checking it out since its only a ferry away but after this, I won't even bother wasting my time and money checking it out. However, the website layout seems somewhat familiar. Must've been copied from a real RC store website. Lesson Learnt, if its too good to be true, it probably is.
09-10-2013, 11:11 PM
#3
Tech Initiate
Thanks for the alert!
09-11-2013, 11:49 PM
#4
http://www.harahaphobby.com/
http://www.skystoneshop.com/content/...t-skystoneshop
http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/8...FORE_BUY/5.htm
Check out 1st 2 links. Both shops have the exact same store front with the same ppl.
3rd link shows the list of shops to beware of. Harharap is in the list as well. Supposedly in Far East Plaza Singapore. Believe me, there is no such shop there.
http://www.skystoneshop.com/content/...t-skystoneshop
http://resources.alibaba.com/topic/8...FORE_BUY/5.htm
Check out 1st 2 links. Both shops have the exact same store front with the same ppl.
3rd link shows the list of shops to beware of. Harharap is in the list as well. Supposedly in Far East Plaza Singapore. Believe me, there is no such shop there.
09-12-2013, 03:30 PM
#5
Tech Initiate
Moral of the story; Dun Buy from Indonesia online shop...
06-14-2014, 02:43 AM
#7
Tech Rookie
That true guys. I'm batam people also got to location check the the store doesn exist. So careful to buying online at indonesia. If i find the shop by my self only at nagoya hill. 2 floor near informa shop.
06-16-2014, 03:33 AM
#8
Tech Rookie
Beware
How about Aliexpress? They are selling HPI Vorza at USD400. Very tempting but too afraid.
06-17-2014, 04:33 PM
#9
harahaphobby is such a big scam that the prices are just to low. And no such shop exists lol.
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