Scam warning in Amazon AU for PS5
I wanted to warn other Australian Amazon buyers about a PS5 listing I came across.
I found a PS5 Slim Disc Edition 1TB (Renewed), “Refurbished – Excellent” listed on Amazon AU for $350 AUD, sold by a third-party seller named Anton Klimovych.
The price obviously looked unusually good, but the listing appeared to be a legitimate Amazon Renewed product and stated that Renewed products have a 12-month warranty.
I placed an order through Amazon normally.
The seller then sent me this message through Amazon:
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The link was to a domain completely unrelated to Amazon.
Of course, I did not click the link or make any payment outside Amazon.
What makes this particularly concerning is that I found another review on a different PS5 listing from the same seller, where a buyer described essentially the same pattern: the item supposedly goes out of stock, the seller sends an external link to a fake Amazon page, and tries to get the buyer to pay there.
So this appears to be a potential scam pattern, rather than simply a seller running out of stock.
If you see a PS5 listing from Anton Klimovych on Amazon AU, be very careful. Do not follow any external links or make payments outside Amazon.
I've reported the message to Amazon.
I'm posting this because the $350 price makes the listing look very tempting, especially compared with current PS5 prices in Australia.
If anyone else has had the same experience with this seller, I'd be interested to hear about it.