CPC Electronics - is it legit? - page 3.

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Quote from: ATC777 on January 02, 2013, 03:46:44 PM

Quote from: greyhawk on January 02, 2013, 07:10:21 AM

The Manchester City Council Tradings Standards Office is now looking into this. Any victims please contact [email protected] referencing complaint # 047774

Would you be willing to share your work with me so I can see what you've done on the CPC front? They have been on my mind since I first saw the bogus website. So far all I have done was attempt to contact them, pretending to be legitimately interested in purchasing from them. But they have not responded. I'd like to work together with you and do what we can to get them shut down before they victimize anyone else and are rewarded for their disgusting scam.

As formerly described I have contacted the Trading Standards Office with the evidence collected by BTCTalk in the three seperate CPC threads thus far. The TSO has confirmed that there is no company CPC Electronics registered in Manchester and that no company like that exists at the adress they supposedly exist at. At this point TSO would appreciate a victim to step forward (by monitoring the wallet adress we know there is at least one) to supply them with more information.

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Quote from: greyhawk on January 02, 2013, 07:10:21 AM

The Manchester City Council Tradings Standards Office is now looking into this. Any victims please contact [email protected] referencing complaint # 047774

Would you be willing to share your work with me so I can see what you've done on the CPC front? They have been on my mind since I first saw the bogus website. So far all I have done was attempt to contact them, pretending to be legitimately interested in purchasing from them. But they have not responded. I'd like to work together with you and do what we can to get them shut down before they victimize anyone else and are rewarded for their disgusting scam.

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Thanks for sharing. Will contact this person / organization.

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The Manchester City Council Tradings Standards Office is now looking into this. Any victims please contact [email protected] referencing complaint # 047774

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Hi. I just have spoken to Miss. Spruijt from the "Europees Consumenten Centrum" http://www.eccnl.eu/page/en .
This is the organisation which can help people who bought products within Europe.

Their advise was to contact them by email and in case of no response (which is very likely in this case) within a week, to register a complain via this site.

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Hi Kelticfox,
Thanks for you answer!
You said, you live in the UK. Do you know any organisation(s) in the UK who protects (UK) customers from fraud buying from scam websites? Here in the Netherlands we have "consuWijzer" (https://www.consuwijzer.nl/klacht-indienen-bij-consuwijzer). Maybe it is best to contact such organisation in the UK... Happy to hear from you. Thanks!

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I thought I would give Piccadilly Place (http://www.piccadillyplace.co.uk/contact/) a bell, and got through to the security booth who then passed me through to reception.

According to Reception there are no electronic companies with offices in Piccadilly Place (and he even checked the system!).

Hi,

Two questions:
1) Have you bought some stuff from CPC Electronics?
2) Are you an international customer (outside the UK)? (Then it could take 14 days)
3) If yes, what steps are you gonna take ?

Thanks in advance!

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Quote from: Stephen Gornick on December 28, 2012, 04:38:24 PM

Depending on your jurisdiction you might be able to file a fraud report with an agency. In the U.S.:
- http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
- https://complaint.ic3.gov/ctf.aspx <-- Series of questions assumes you've already been defrauded. There's no "report a scam" method that I can see.

Appreciate your post. I will take action. Because of the holidays I give them some space. To be continued

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you can find the 'stock' images here:

http://guide4games.com/index.php/hardware/2667-thermaltake-announced-sd101-new-mini-itx-chassis
http://www.overclock.net/t/1331288/tpu-thermaltake-introducing-new-mini-itx-chassis-sd101/50
http://techgyaani.com/Newsindetail.aspx?SrcTbN=gadgets&Nd=15

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Quote from: MykelSilver on December 28, 2012, 03:57:15 PM

In case it is a scam. Any thoughts how to deal with it?

They are hosted on 1&1. cpcelectronics.co.uk They accept bitcoin only.

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Delivery Schedule We deliver your order right away. We will normally send your order to you in 7 business days. International orders are generally received in under 14 days.
[...]
Back Orders If your item is not in stock, we will back order for you. You will always be emailed with the option to cancel your order if you would rather not wait.

Someone could file a complaint that the site is a scam with 1&1 and request a takedown. I've done this with others and oftentimes they don't take second-hand reports (hearsay) and instead only investigate when the person filing the complaint has been scammed.

Also, you could report it as phishing as well:
- http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Depending on your jurisdiction you might be able to file a fraud report with an agency. In the U.S.:
- http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
- https://complaint.ic3.gov/ctf.aspx <-- Series of questions assumes you've already been defrauded. There's no "report a scam" method that I can see.

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In case it is a scam. Any thoughts how to deal with it? Lawsuit ? Any organisation who helps people victim of internet web shop fraud? Google gives too many options. Anyone here got experience with how to deal with such situations?

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Quote from: ATC777 on December 24, 2012, 12:58:03 PM

I sent them an email. Grin

I stumbled across your website today through an ad and I am very interested in your Bitcoin mining products. I am most interested in buying the "CPC 31.2 GH/s Miner" offered on your website. But I have some questions.

1) It says on your FAQ that some of your hardware is based on AMD GPUs... How on earth can such speeds be possible with GPUs? It would take a small warehouse filled top to bottom with GPUs burning an immense amount of electricity to attain such speed; unless you have some technology the rest of the world doesn't know about.

2) How long have you been in business and manufacturing these products?

3) Do you have any photos of the actual chips/internals of your products?

4) Do you have any photos or video of the equipment in action? I'd like to see one running.

5) It says on your website "a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals"; who are some of your biggest customers? What companies use your products?

6) How is it possible to have such powerful equipment for such a low cost?

Can't wait to hear their response! Roll Eyes

Ull be lucky if you actually get a response I sent in 6 or 7 emails now with no response on them.

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I sent them an email. Grin

I stumbled across your website today through an ad and I am very interested in your Bitcoin mining products. I am most interested in buying the "CPC 31.2 GH/s Miner" offered on your website. But I have some questions.

1) It says on your FAQ that some of your hardware is based on AMD GPUs... How on earth can such speeds be possible with GPUs? It would take a small warehouse filled top to bottom with GPUs burning an immense amount of electricity to attain such speed; unless you have some technology the rest of the world doesn't know about.

2) How long have you been in business and manufacturing these products?

3) Do you have any photos of the actual chips/internals of your products?

4) Do you have any photos or video of the equipment in action? I'd like to see one running.

5) It says on your website "a high percentage of our business is from repeat customers and referrals"; who are some of your biggest customers? What companies use your products?

6) How is it possible to have such powerful equipment for such a low cost?

Can't wait to hear their response! Roll Eyes

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I stumbled across this "CPC Electronics" through an ad on eBay, and I was like WHOAAAAA!!!! Shocked

Then I saw that they were offering rigs with several GH/sec for < $200... RED FLAG!

Found this thread and now I'm pissed... Pissed because it's not real (and I can't get such a machine) and because they're trying to rip people off.

I wonder what the real CPC Electronics thinks of this?

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Quote from: greyhawk on December 21, 2012, 10:47:03 PM

Quote from: crazyearner on December 21, 2012, 09:47:15 PM

ill be checking this business out at the address its a drive away so ill do an investigation after Christmas is over and done with.

I just looked at the address on street view. I know that place for sure. 1 it is a hotel and cafes the bottom floor has a number of shops and cafes and the upper floors are hotel rooms and function rooms you can hire out for the day.

It's one of Manchesters best office blocks. So you can be reasonably sure there is just a mail forwarding service there.

Unfortunately the Manchester City Council just closed shop for the year what with X-mas and all so we'll only get a reaction next year.

Well already done a check on a few things their business is not registered and at that address it is part of the hotel, room rental and to put it blunt that room is not hired out or leased to anyone. They also said that this is not the first time someone has made this inquiry into CPC Electronics. I went into speak to one of the supervises at the customer service desk and showed them the website and a few other things and lets put it this way they where not impressed when they seen their business address been used and said leave it with us. Now am not sure what their doing but maybe they have a mail box or something their. Ill have to do a bit more investigating.

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Quote from: crazyearner on December 21, 2012, 09:47:15 PM

ill be checking this business out at the address its a drive away so ill do an investigation after Christmas is over and done with.

I just looked at the address on street view. I know that place for sure. 1 it is a hotel and cafes the bottom floor has a number of shops and cafes and the upper floors are hotel rooms and function rooms you can hire out for the day.

It's one of Manchesters best office blocks. So you can be reasonably sure there is just a mail forwarding service there.

Unfortunately the Manchester City Council just closed shop for the year what with X-mas and all so we'll only get a reaction next year.

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ill be checking this business out at the address its a drive away so ill do an investigation after Christmas is over and done with.

I just looked at the address on street view. I know that place for sure. 1 it is a hotel and cafes the bottom floor has a number of shops and cafes and the upper floors are hotel rooms and function rooms you can hire out for the day.

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this site is shady as. Reminds me of those mtgix guys lol. And bitcointalks.org. Hopefully people are smart enough not to fall for this low level scum sucking.

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Quote from: julz on December 19, 2012, 07:18:21 PM

anonymousads.com is serving advertisements for CPC.

e.g here: http://bitcoins.tumblr.com/post/38065525717/bitcoin-clusters they are advertising their 5.2Gh/s scamrig.

Yes, I saw it too. Buyers, beware!

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Clearly a scam site, thanks to those who create this thread and did the research. Hopefully they don't fool too many people.

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