Check on 2nd hand reseller : Converted Into Sound

[joel_hifi]

Hello,

I'm new to this Forum, apologies if I'm not posting under the right section!

Does anyone have experience dealing with Converted Into Sound based in Swindon?

www.convertedintosound.com

Many thanks for your input.

Best,
Joel

[struth]

moved.. p e is for sales only

[joel_hifi]

Thanks Grant, apologies for the wrong location, may I ask under which section it was moved? Thanks!

[flapland]

Nothing on a google search, lots of expensive kit and no address on the website I could find. I would leave well alone unless others know it to be sound.

[antonio]

Some items seem toooo cheap

[hifi_dave]

There was a similar thread a couple of weeks ago. Not sure if it was the same company/person ?

[YNWaN]

I would say it’s pretty obviously a con website. There are a number of suspicious qualities to the website - but the single most suspicious is that there are only a handful of dealers in the UK that can carry equipment like this and none of them have that range of speakers (all photographed in different settings too).

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I googled the copy for the Avalon Isis - the picture is not from the UK (you can see the mains sockets on the wall between the speakers) and the same picture and description is used on a number of foreign e
Websites - like here https://www.hifionline.cz/hifibazar/prodam/reproduktory/avalon-acoustics/isis-reference-speakers/

This is 100% certain a con.

[George47]

Sorry Con Artist. We had them on the Wam. The Stradivarius speaker's image is from a sold item on Choice Hifi. Do NOT waste any money. Wilson Alexias at £12,500 when the RRP is >£50K.

[Spectral Morn]

Maybe inform the police, internet fraud department

[Moneypit]

The website is appallingly cheap and clunky. It's been created via a diy website builder program ( wix.com) offering a potentially free service. Nothing wrong with that per se , but not in the context of hi-fi of this value.

[struth]

Thanks Grant, apologies for the wrong location, may I ask under which section it was moved? Thanks!It's in blank canvas.. As to sites like this if it seems too cheap to be true, then it probably is

[Barry]

It's in blank canvas.. As to sites like this if it seems too cheap to be true, then it probably is

Agreed.

I did look at a couple of items, and the asking price seemed to be realistic.

How did the OP think they were based in Swindon?

[Alex_UK]

Apart from the many other warning signs the only payment method listed is bank transfer... Leave well alone is my advice - totally dodgy.

[Lawrence001]

What a rubbish website and yes 99.99% site it's dodgy. Looks like someone's reserved a pair of Focals, hope that's not someone getting conned.

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[icehockeyboy]

Interesting to note, seemingly all the reviews about the firm are from outside the UK, and the one that claims was from December 2019 is a bit iffy as we haven’t even reached December yet!


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[joel_hifi]

Thank you all for your valuable feedback!

I actually almost got conned! I did get in touch with them by posting a message through their contact box on their website, asking them clarifications about the Sonus Faber Guarneri Evolution, they replied by email providing a serial number that seemed to match, with several pictures, and advising their selling price of £4300 inclusive of shipping. The price is aggressive but I've seen those trading on eBay close to that level so it didn't seem unrealistic. They were then very quick to accept my counter at £4000 and to send me an invoice with various unusual terms. That's when the whole thing started to look suspicious. I checked on Google Maps the business address that appears on their invoice and saw an abandoned warehouse in Swindon! So I sent back an email asking them for a copy of their certificate of incorporation, copy of recent utility bill and copy of the dealer's ID... and in the meantime I posted this message on AoS to check with other members... since then no reply from the con artists! Another point to note is that they provided a supposedly HSBC bank account number on their invoice but I'm not able to say whether the IBAN and SWIFT numbers corroborate.

Any suggestions on which authorities one should report this incident to ?

Thanks

[struth]

Call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040