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[Zed Clampet]

Okay, I've done some research on this. Apparently, people list themselves as 3rd party sellers on Amazon, collect payments for months and then try to take off with the money. One potential way that you can tell if this happened to you is if you ever received a tracking number for the package. Not every scammer sends out tracking numbers, but some do to buy themselves more time. Apparently this is something commonly happening in Australia because Amazon, which is trying to combat it, is relatively new to Australia, so it's easier to fool customers there, and also because Australians expect long shipping times.

What seems to have happened is that Amazon figured out the seller was fake and closed it down before they got any money out of it.

 

[Colif]

Guess it was coming from Asus then, mark anyone who ordered on the day it appeared as a bot perhaps

The seller is pretty official

ASUS

ASUS is passionate about technology and driven by innovation. We dream, we dare and we strive to create an effortless and joyful digital life for everyone. We're always in search of incredible ideas and experiences, and we aspire to deliver the incredible in everything we do.

www.amazon.com.au

they didn't charge me anything at all. I was only to be charged once it was sent out.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Guess it was coming from Asus then, mark anyone who ordered on the day it appeared as a bot perhaps

The seller is pretty official

ASUS

ASUS is passionate about technology and driven by innovation. We dream, we dare and we strive to create an effortless and joyful digital life for everyone. We're always in search of incredible ideas and experiences, and we aspire to deliver the incredible in everything we do.

www.amazon.com.au

That's possible. Did you buy the main listing instead of a lower priced listing on the same page?

 

[Colif]

Did you buy the main listing instead of a lower priced listing on the same page?

I found the page for the monitor via google search, I didn't use Amazon to look for it. So no other listings showed anywhere for me to pick the wrong one.

I found the page I bought it from a few weeks before I ordered it. Its possible it was unlisted as I had been doing searches of google using "PG32UCDM3" to restrict all the searches for the previous models. I may have found it before I was meant to.

When Asus first put it on their site it was showing as open for pre order then but I waited a few days wanting to buy on the following Monday, but by then it had gone into its current unavailable status.
So I was checking it almost daily after that to see when it open up again.

At about 3am on the 23rd I noticed it had changed to open to order again, so I made 1st order which they cancelled that day... After I gave Amazon the right ID to open account on the next day, I noticed it was cancelled and ordered it again... and sat waiting for two months just to get a repeat.

I suspect Asus just did it to clear the orders.

Searching Amazon now shows no results for the monitor. Just the old ones.

 

[Colif]

I might as well buy that UPS while I wait.

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