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Doba.com is a scam -- Beware

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If you are looking for ways to find new products to offer for sale on eBay, dropshippers such as Doba  may look like a good bet.

Doba.com claims to offer many types of products for ebay sellers, from electronics to tools, books, clothing and housewares. They actually seem to have set up several phony "web review" sites that offer glowing testimonials about their company, and they even have eBay logos to claim that they are somehow affiliated with eBay.

They offer a free trial period to become familiar with their products in their catalog, but you have to submit your credit card number to enroll for the free trial period, or you won't be able to actually enter their site to look at their catalogs.  Once an unwary person enters their credit card number, shortly after doing so a salesman will call on the phone with a special offer.  On their site they list their subscription fees as $49.94 a month, but lo and behold, once this salesperson calls, he has a much better offer-- 15 months for only $299 or $19.99.  Well gee, that sure sounds good, and amazingly this offer comes before a person has time to learn the truth about Doba-- that their items are not actually priced at wholesale at all, but retail.

It can take many hours of searching Doba products and doing research to actually find anything that might sell for a profit on eBay.  Who wants to run up listing fees on eBay for stuff that never sells?  Plus for those who have actually sold something, they may discover after the sale that it is no longer available.

That's what happens when you subscribe to Doba!  Plus it gets even better.  Doba has a non-cancellation policy on their so-called "subscription service".  But of course, how else could they stay in business, except by ripping off unwary eBayers!  After the subscriber learns the sad truth, and says they want out, Doba will actually REFUSE to refund the rest of the subscription. Even though they say on their web site a subscriber can cancel, actually there is no way to do so.  Phone calls and emails only lead to a run-around.
So, if you have been sucked in to the Doba scam, the only remedy is to send them a written request for a refund, and if that is denied, contact your credit card company for a charge-back.

Any legitimate company should be willing to give a refund to any customer dissatisfied for any reason.  But guess what-- Doba is not legitimate.  If they were, they wouldn't need to have such a rip-off policy, because they would have many loyal and satisfied subscribers.

Don't get sucked in to Doba-- it is a scam run by a bunch of lying crooks.

And as for their supposed relationship with eBay-- eBay says they have no affiliation.  So who is telling the truth?




Guide ID: 10000000006454228Guide created: 04/02/08 (updated 08/06/08)

 
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