Hey good people.

Has anyone ever experienced this, we are looking to buy outside furniture, and have contacted a ad, but we noticed that several accounts are selling the same item.

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Examples;

[https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/konstrotting\_utegrupp\_\_frakt\_hjalp/101644171](https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/konstrotting_utegrupp__frakt_hjalp/101644171)

and

[https://www.blocket.se/annons/101529648](https://www.blocket.se/annons/101529648)

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Then there’s

[https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/utemobel\_\_konstrottingsoffa\_\_frakt/101644281](https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/utemobel__konstrottingsoffa__frakt/101644281)

and

[https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/konstrotting\_soffa\_o\_fatolj/101571059](https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/konstrotting_soffa_o_fatolj/101571059)

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Weirdly the one we are in contact with wants cash for the item in question.

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Are we about to be scammed?

5 comments

  1. Looks like it might be a scam. All new accounts, and exactly the same pictures and descriptions.
    You might want to report them to Blocket.

  2. I don’t have a whole lot of experience with Blocket but seeing as none of those photos are catalogue examples, I wouldn’t buy any of them.

    Cash isn’t *that* unusual, but coupled with the pictures, it’s definitely a bad sign.

    Don’t go to inspect or pick up the items alone.

  3. Is the price to good to be true, or at least suspiciously low? I can’t tell, I’m not familiar with pricing of used konstrotting. But all sellers have new accounts, probably registered after advertising became free.

    Since they’re both advertising from the same location it’s possible that it’s husband and wife that both made accounts in order to increase the odds of sale. If you’re picking them up(the items), I wouldn’t worry. But if they want some sort of down payment or shipping fee upfront, that’s obviously a scam.

    I’m in the market for a phone and have a watch(?) for a certain model. Many scam ads written in poor swedish, with oddly low prices and with a seller refusing to meet up even if you claim to be in the same city as them. Those are 100% scams.

  5. Good answers already in the thread and I’ll add a bit of general knowledge and good proactive consumer tips that you might not be aware of if you’re new to Sweden (since you’re writing in English).

    As soon as you have any details of a seller, try and find them on sites such as [RatsIt](https://ratsit.se/), [Upplysning](https://www.upplysning.se/), [MrKoll](https://mrkoll.se/) and so on. These are all searchable copies of the [swedish resident registry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration) coupled with some additional information such as phone numbers. You can narrow down the search by zip code, name, phone number. Say what you want about transparency and what’s made public information in Sweden, at least it’s there to use for stuff like this.

    If at any point you have a phone number, try using Swish to initiate a transaction for 1 SEK and you’ll either see the name of the recipient before confirming (**don’t, just cancel at this point**) through BankID or you’ll be informed that they’re not connected to Swish. This is a good way to find a name to aid you in your search above and if they are not connected to Swish I usually take that as a bad sign and stay cautious but it’s not necessarily a deal breaker.

    It’s always good to be able to identify who you are going to do business with and a proactive approach will always aid you in avoiding scams, some of them but not all.

    All the best!

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