Fake "Sam Ash" guitar scam on Facebook

[jimmy bookout]

Sorry to be insensitive...But...
If you're the person who thinks ANY new guitar can be bought for 90% off, you deserve what you got (which is NOT a new guitar, along with less money in your pocket)
But you learned a good life lesson, I suppose.

[edcmat-l1]

Originally Posted by brancher

Yeah,

So I reported the ad to the FB sheriffs, and this is the FB reply:

"We didn’t remove the ad
To keep our review process as fair as possible, we use the same Advertising Standards to review reports.
We’ve taken a look and found that this ad doesn’t go against our Advertising Standards.
Because you reported it, we won’t show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences.
If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review."

Again, I think Zuckerberg and company are an interesting study.

Reason number 2....

[Jim Owen]

Originally Posted by jimmy bookout

Sorry to be insensitive...But...
If you're the person who thinks ANY new guitar can be bought for 90% off, you deserve what you got (which is NOT a new guitar, along with less money in your pocket)
But you learned a good life lesson, I suppose.

OP didn’t fall for it. He warned us about it. I could see a newbie taking the bait—we know that Sam Ash is shutting down.

[jdinco]

I've reported those "all guitars 90% off" ads, FB said they don't see a problem with them....OK, sure.

[sevenpalms]

Originally Posted by brancher

Yeah,

So I reported the ad to the FB sheriffs, and this is the FB reply:

"We didn’t remove the ad
To keep our review process as fair as possible, we use the same Advertising Standards to review reports.
We’ve taken a look and found that this ad doesn’t go against our Advertising Standards.
Because you reported it, we won’t show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences.
If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review."

Again, I think Zuckerberg and company are an interesting study.

I got the same message after reporting several times

[Inyo]

Originally Posted by brancher

Yeah,

So I reported the ad to the FB sheriffs, and this is the FB reply:

"We didn’t remove the ad
To keep our review process as fair as possible, we use the same Advertising Standards to review reports.
We’ve taken a look and found that this ad doesn’t go against our Advertising Standards.
Because you reported it, we won’t show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences.
If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review."

Again, I think Zuckerberg and company are an interesting study.

This corroborates my initial impression from original poster's threadline (AKA, thread title): "Fake 'Sam Ash' guitar scam on Facebook."

From the wording, I concluded that it was actually a fake scam.

Unbelievable. That's all we need. Something more to worry about: Fake scams. Grin.

[frankmcr]

I got the "looks okay to us" email from FB. It comes with an box to click on if you disagree & they'll review it again. So I clicked on that, figuring there would be some way to explain that it was a scam. But no. Just

You requested a review of the ad. We'll send another update once we've reviewed it.

So. Seems likely FB will decide that an ad that attempts to defraud people does not violate community standards. Will update though, if they do respond.

[Hogs150]

just went on the real sam ash website doesn't look like they're giving anything away. maybe in the stores itself its a different story.

[LAPlayer]

Originally Posted by Inyo

...From the wording, I concluded that it was actually a fake scam. Unbelievable. That's all we need. Something more to worry about: Fake scams. Grin.

I know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell real poo from sham-poo.

[Matthew Sarad]

Originally Posted by LAPlayer

I know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell real poo from sham-poo.

Reminds me of Lisa Simpson:
"Bart, I know what this word means, but what is Shinola?"