I'm looking for new phone, and found it dirt cheap in Lazada, 11th Street. However after placing order the vendor told me to cancel and only deals it buy phone directly from them. Reported it to Lazada and they did not take any actions. Instead Lazada cancelled my order and refund.

Have anyone experience this? Anyone knows why these vendor can sell the phone dirt cheap? Not being naive, but I did get good bargain items from Lazada and 11th Street previously, but never encountered anything like this recent experience.

I.e. Huawei P20 Pro is selling at RM1.5k

it's a scam. don't buy outside Lazada/11street.

1.5k this price?? 🤔🤔

Link where ?

Don't have to warn me about it. Any transaction outside of Lazada will be hard to take further action. What ticks me is that, I just found out Lazada knew this sort of things been going on since earlier this year. And they still do nothing or very little about this. Kinda bummer for bargain hunter like myself

Yes. I was thinking this could be stock clearance of some kind as Huawei is releasing new models soon.

Just do a quick search for P20 Pro and set filter, you will find it

Lazada is own by Alibaba. And Alibaba have the reputation that it's weak when comes to filtering genuine and scam merchants.

But even clearance also wont be so cheap.. this is over..

huawei difficult to find huge gap in price between official and retail price..

other phone maybe possible..


lazada full of scam nowdays.. prefer 11street or shopee

yeah agree. I think 11street should be legit. I personally bought quite many stuffs there and so far so good. I saw now oppo F9 is on promo on 11street... RM1399 only 😱😱

This post has been edited by nenubebe: Aug 26 2018, 07:39 PM

may i suggest you ?

try samsung A8 star

11street..sengheng RM1499..then..try grab electronic voucher...RM100

total only RM 1399..worth it

maybe not scam? maybe they want you to direct deal, so they dun need to pay lazada commision?

Thanks guys. Manage to snag Asus Zenfone Z5 during the sale.

Don't be so naive. Any transaction not done thru the portal is highly suspicious.

sorry, i may have misread you. but when you say dealer wants you to directly with them, is it done thru online or having to go to their stores?

Deal directly with them as in online money transfer to their bank account. A person put up your stuff on a portal, then when someone place an order an already paid thru the portal, than when contacted, that person told you that he does not sell thru that portal. Instead that person told you to cancel and order directly to them. That is a scam.

okay this is clearly a scam. i thought you they to deal directly with them, it means visiting their physical store.. my apologize

check on the reviews, check on the sales rate from the seller

yes this is what i usually do
Problematic seller will usually get complained very quickly, so make sure to read the review of the device and also the seller carefully.
Just be careful of unbelievably cheap phone deals (like P20 going for 1K vs RRP 2.5k)

Have gotten an Galaxy A7,Galaxy A8, Note 5, S8+ and my current Note 9 off lazada and 11street, no problem so far.