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by kansas1 Tue May 03, 2011 11:20 pm
This is differently a scam. If you are wondering about doing business with this outfit.pcfounders in China. Forget it. They are in business to take your money and that is it. This is an extremely dishonest company. They did not deliver on items ordered and if any thing does come its not what your purchased but instead some dishonest product. I ordered hard drives and received fake flash drives in stead. So, stay away from pcfounders.
They do have a very impressive web site, but looks can be deceiving as I found out.
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by Dotti Wed May 04, 2011 12:54 am
While counterfeit flash drives are definitely a scam (they are a huge problem on sites like eBay and amazon.com), they are outside the scope of the type of scams we normally deal with here. Counterfeit flash drives are typically "real" drives--but they are typically small drives that have been reprogrammed to appear to be much larger. There are several technical sites on the internet that have instructions to help you find out the true capacity of the drives.

I can only suggest that if you paid by paypal or credit card, you file a dispute. Unfortunately, if you paid by Western Union or Moneygram, there is no hope of recovering your money.

Assuming pcfounder.com is the website you are referring to, I can say that a quick review of the site gives several red flags. I didn't see the ordering pages because I had scripts turned off, but I assume their prices were well below the normal market price for the products they advertise.

I won't go through all of the flags, but one of the biggest is related to the dates:

Established in 2001, Pcfounder Technology Industrial Co., Ltd specializes in research, manufacturing and trading computer accessories,such as CPU Processor,DDR Ram, Hard drive and Mainboard,Monitor,etc

Also contains "news" from 2009 and 2010, both of which are interesting in light of the domain registration dates:

Domain Name: PCFOUNDER.COM
Updated Date: 28-feb-2011
Creation Date: 28-feb-2011
Expiration Date: 28-feb-2012


So the website is only 2 months old, and is registered for the minimum period of one year, yet it is written to appear to be much older. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence. A few searches brings me to this site (as well as others): http://www.sunshine-elec.com/ ( 6 months old, also registered for a single year). Compare that page to the "about us" section on pcfounder. Look familiar?

Definitely a site I personally would stay very far away from.

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by Whitney Belle Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:16 am
Hello you all:

This PCfounders called me too, they asked to research laptop in China and whether I am interested. I told them noway, northamerica laptops much better. Later they called me that I won awards and ask me for credit card so they could give me money. I told them to donate to charity, as I don't want it. They kept calling me. I knew is fake but I didn't know they are scam. Next time I receive their calls and I will ask where they are calling from.

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