At customs they are able look at the internet too... So they may wonder about a price significantly under the average.
I've just sighed with relief after a potential dodgy eBay sale, the US buyer it turned out after payment was actually in South Korea, wanting a Customs form with a lower purchase price. He has 100% feedback as a seller and buyer. In the end I just listed the two film holders at £100 each on the customs form/
I think it might help if buyers and sellers here actually left Trader History feedback for each other...
Isn't it easier to make the Classifieds time related to membership and a number of active posts.
I've just sighed with relief after a potential dodgy eBay sale, the US buyer it turned out after payment was actually in South Korea, wanting a Customs form with a lower purchase price. He has 100% feedback as a seller and buyer. In the end I just listed the two film holders at £100 each on the customs form/
eBay feedback today was just - Great. a relief, but sales here have less protection. Saying that I've bought into the $1000's here cameras, lenses, etc, all good honest purchases, but all long time members.
Ian
They need 20 posts to send PMs which usually helps us catch them out as they post quickly to get to the limit. When we see that happening we can then examine the account for telltale signs of a scammer.
I reported this clown a day ago. He/she was posting blank replies to old threads. It
dodn't look right so I reported this person.
I would not buy/sell anything to someone who just signed up here. They have to have a history here first.
I think we all have to help each other and Sean and the Moderator team in alerting them to these potential scammers.
What if the new member had a "probationary" status that, in conjunction with the 20 post, 5 day minimum, would see his/her privileges put on hold if he/she was reported - prior to any review in moderation. It would amount to a minor inconvenience to authentic members being incorrectly reported, but it would stop potential scammers while they awaited moderation.
Unfortunately I got scammed by this crook yesterday when he replied that he had some negative colour film that I had in a WTB. Amount is not large and I paid by PayPal FF so no chance of any recompense by PayPal. I have only just read the scammer warning and should have done more due diligence. Now older and hopefully a bit wiser.
As a fairly new member to the site, I can say that I came here in order to learn as much as I could about photography and gather equipment for the hobby. If I couldn't buy equipment right away from people I thought I could trust, I'd be stuck with eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, and thrift stores. Not that those are all bad, but there's nothing like buying from people you feel you can trust.
Well, that seemed the original idea of the classifieds at Apug: members buying, selling, trading or gifting with members.
And to me members in this context are people participating at the forum, and be it even silently. But for these members it should not be their highest priority to interact at the classifieds the moment they join.
As a side note, I repeatedly pm'ed sellers of items here, not to buy but just for asking something about that thing, just out of my curiosity. And I got nice replies.
Try this at a true commercial site or with commercial sellers here...
Hi all, I am sorry to say that I most likely got scammed on a WTB ad I put here. There is a 1% chance it is not a scam, so I won't name the person until they fail to make good, but I wanted to get it out there as their profile shows them looking at other classifieds so if this is with bad intent they are most likely engaging with other folks.
Long story short: I put an ad looking for a broken Coolscan for parts, they responded and we set a price which I paid over venmo. They now are claiming that there is a problem with the venmo transaction, and that I will get my money back in 72 days from Venmo (they know this because it has happened before), but please pay again using an alternate route. This is clearly not how Venmo works, and a 72 day period to get the money back????
Warning flags I see now: New account created last friday, no forum activity/normal posts, wanted to make the transaction over Zelle initially (which is a favorite of scammers). I should have paid more attention.
I'll update this post either way with how this progresses, if it is a misunderstanding I'll publically acknowledge this, otherwise I'll update with the name of the seller (but it is new account so....).
Anyway, keep your wits about you. I have had very good luck buying here before, but it's the internet so this is a lesson for me and hopefully my mistake can help someone else.
He used different addresses each time. I won't list the addresses since I did not bite and cannot be 100% certain a scam was afoot.
It might be good, if you receive a message on a WTB listing, for the buyer to invite a moderator into the conversation. Scammers will be put off if there is a third party present - especially a third party who can see the scammer is offering to sell everything everyone everywhere wants to buy.
Well ....
There are not a lot of moderators to go around.
And we would rather not be involved in legitimate transactions, because we really don't need your private shipping and financial information.
If the Conversation is initiated by the potential seller, they control whether or not another party can be added to the Conversation. So you would need to start another Conversation yourself, and ad them and us.
All that being said, if you need our help, and can be patient with time differences and availability, I'd be unlikely to refuse.
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