Gal Flip 4 on carrots [사진 = 당근 캡처]A story of a middle-aged man buying a used cell phone for 150,000 won by mistaken it for a real cell phone while trading a used cell phone has been posted on an online community.
On the 24th, in an online community, the title of an article titled, ‘My father was scammed by Flip 4 at the carrot market, what should I do?’ The author said, “Originally, I buy cell phones myself, but my dad doesn’t want to borrow a hand from me, so he seems to have tried to change his phone himself.” I don’t know the price of a cell phone by searching for it first,” he wrote.
According to the author, his father, who was unaware of the market price by using second-hand transactions rather than buying a new one, saw the Galaxy Flip 4 5G Pink Gold replica (replica made to imitate the real thing) and went to buy it. The asking price of the seller is 15 million won. My father came home following trading directly without any doubt because it was even packaged in a box, and found out that it was not a real cell phone, but a model for display in the store.
The author said, “When I checked, the title of the carrot market post said ‘replica’. The writer questioned the seller, but the seller also said that it was the person who misunderstood that it was a model and stated both in the title and in the photo, and responded that it was not his fault.
The author claimed, “The model mark is only clearly written at the bottom of the last photo. Then, “Are such models worth 150,000 won in the first place? It seems like they were trying to catch people who don’t know like the elderly enough to misunderstand them. Can’t this be a fraud?”
Netizens who heard the story showed reactions such as ‘It’s not a scam because the seller wrote it all down’, ‘The problem is that I bought it without checking it properly’, and ‘It was too much to drive the seller into a scammer’. On the other hand, some netizens said, ‘Elderly people can be mistaken. It would have been better if I emphasized that it is a model.”
On the other hand, the ‘Act on Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, etc.’ does not apply to purchases made through second-hand transactions. Therefore, even if the buyer requests a refund due to a simple change of mind, the seller does not have to give a refund.
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