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深圳 Ikea 一日遊
06/09/2009 22:50
昨天到深圳的 Ikea 去，才感覺到祖國同胞購買力之強。三萬平方米的商店加上鄰近的特力屋家品店(Hola)，百安居(B&Q)、順電、麥德龍(Metro)及迪卡儂運動用品商場(Decathlon)，留連一日應當不是問題。
深圳 Ikea位處深圳西南部，近世界之窗。宜家免費巴士往返於世界之窗地鐵H1出口和宜家商場， 營運時間10:00至22:00。 週一至週五每30分鐘一班，週六至周日每15分鐘一班。注意的是乘車的地點是H1出口的地面，由地鐵上到路面，在右邊馬路前行約十米處，那裡並沒有清晰的標誌，我們第一次來時便因為找不到候車地點而要轉乘計程車。
由深圳灣口岸坐計程車約RMB25。由世界之窗坐計程車約RMB18。（要坐計程車的話，最好預備詳細地址和Ikea網上的地圖，因為司機不大清楚『歐洲城』的方位，加上宜家位處高速公路旁，不熟悉路的司機可能在公路對面也不易轉入宜家的停車處。）
深圳 Ikea的貨品種類比香港多。一般中國製造的貨品價錢也比香港便宜。例如白色Poang扶手椅香港賣HK$690，深圳 Ikea賣RMB349（合HK$396，平了HK$293）。當然太大的貨物你可能不大願意到那邊買，但如果你想在香港用HK$99.90買Smila Blomma壁燈的話，又不妨到深圳 Ikea走走，順便用RMB39.9(HKD45)的價錢把它買下來呢。
深圳 Ikea位處深圳西南部，近世界之窗。宜家免費巴士往返於世界之窗地鐵H1出口和宜家商場， 營運時間10:00至22:00。 週一至週五每30分鐘一班，週六至周日每15分鐘一班。注意的是乘車的地點是H1出口的地面，由地鐵上到路面，在右邊馬路前行約十米處，那裡並沒有清晰的標誌，我們第一次來時便因為找不到候車地點而要轉乘計程車。
由深圳灣口岸坐計程車約RMB25。由世界之窗坐計程車約RMB18。（要坐計程車的話，最好預備詳細地址和Ikea網上的地圖，因為司機不大清楚『歐洲城』的方位，加上宜家位處高速公路旁，不熟悉路的司機可能在公路對面也不易轉入宜家的停車處。）
深圳 Ikea的貨品種類比香港多。一般中國製造的貨品價錢也比香港便宜。例如白色Poang扶手椅香港賣HK$690，深圳 Ikea賣RMB349（合HK$396，平了HK$293）。當然太大的貨物你可能不大願意到那邊買，但如果你想在香港用HK$99.90買Smila Blomma壁燈的話，又不妨到深圳 Ikea走走，順便用RMB39.9(HKD45)的價錢把它買下來呢。
How to avoid eBay feedback scam
05/09/2006 21:20
I wrote earlier on eBay feedback scam. By using a large number (300+) of fake accounts, these eBay sellers could generate apparently high feedback rating. If you wonder why they can get away and not get suspended, (eBay user with -4 rating will be suspended) - after all genuine buyers will ultimately leave negative feedback when they didn’t get the goods delivered?
Their trick is to bury the negative rating in a series of fake positive ratings. Like the rating above, if this guy sold to 133 genuine buyers, who had left neutral and negative feedbacks. Normally eBay’s mechanism would have the seller suspended because of number high number of negative feedback. By performing 2797 fake transactions between himself and the fake accounts he owned - leaving positive feedback to himself, the overall rating remains high. The negative feedbacks messages were also typically pushed to the several pages back in the feedback list and not get read by other potential buyers.
To protect yourself from this kind of fraud, you should check feedback rating of the seller that
- “feedback score” should be mostly positive.
- “member since” should be long established account. If you have to trade with newly established account, proceed with caution.
- “item #” should be visible. Ensure that the seller does not list items as “private”. (these seller trade $0.01 e-books with his own fake accounts to avoid eBay’s final fee. Obviously he don’t want you to know that the positive feedbacks were on very low value items).
- “Past 6 months” should have low neutral or negative feedbacks (<10).>feedback of some of these users who had left positive feedbacks. If those items were either listed as “private” or items like $0.01 e-book or poster image, you should not trade with the seller.
eBay feedback scam
03/09/2006 21:22
The feedback system is the cornerstone of eBay. Users came to rely on the number of postive feedbacks to decide whether to deal with a paricular buyer or seller. Recently there are increasing number of cases of of feedback rating manipulating on eBay as reporting by Fortinet and also The Register.
The problem is that there are now many merchants selling $0.01 e-books, poster image, or whatever, the real agenda is the trading of postive feedbacks, as positive feedbacks are automatically returned at the end of these $0.01 transactions.
The scam start by creating users that buy these $0.01 e-books from different traders. Typically each of these fake users would buy between 10 to 20 of these $0.01 e-book to get the a star, to make this appears like a seasoned eBay buyer.
When there are enough of these fake accounts ready, an merchant account could be created to perform transactions with these fake user accounts.
See this example of an account with transactions (Supposedly trading watches) at the rate of one transaction every 5 seconds !!
Transactions details were marked as private but since individiual accounts were all different, the scam looks like a genuine feedback list. The only give away might be the transactions between the merchant accounts and these fake users account were completed at very close interval, suggesting that some kind of programmatic approach were used to complete thse transacations.
When the merchants have built-up more than 500+ and 100% positive feedback, they could start to market high value items and start to pocket some fast money from buyers who simply look at the overall positive feedback ratings !!
The problem is that there are now many merchants selling $0.01 e-books, poster image, or whatever, the real agenda is the trading of postive feedbacks, as positive feedbacks are automatically returned at the end of these $0.01 transactions.
The scam start by creating users that buy these $0.01 e-books from different traders. Typically each of these fake users would buy between 10 to 20 of these $0.01 e-book to get the a star, to make this appears like a seasoned eBay buyer.
When there are enough of these fake accounts ready, an merchant account could be created to perform transactions with these fake user accounts.
See this example of an account with transactions (Supposedly trading watches) at the rate of one transaction every 5 seconds !!
Transactions details were marked as private but since individiual accounts were all different, the scam looks like a genuine feedback list. The only give away might be the transactions between the merchant accounts and these fake users account were completed at very close interval, suggesting that some kind of programmatic approach were used to complete thse transacations.
When the merchants have built-up more than 500+ and 100% positive feedback, they could start to market high value items and start to pocket some fast money from buyers who simply look at the overall positive feedback ratings !!