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Right. I'd be suspicious too.
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12-06-2022, 07:42 PM
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Here's a thought to weed out suspicious buyers:
Post your item but leave out details a prospective buyer would want to know. In the ad, specifically say "please ask for specifics". If they don't ask for those specs all bike geeks should know (crank length? chainring sizes?, etc.) but they ask generic questions instead, your spider senses should tingle. Perhaps someone else could explain to me: I see a lot of ads on Facebook Marketplace that "Item Ships To You". How secure and safe are these transactions? I'm pretty comfortable with eBay's protections but don't see how Facebook Marketplace protects both parties.
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12-06-2022, 07:52 PM
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As for facebook, I have no faith in them so I post my ads but will only accept payment to my paypal account, at least until facebook decides to shut that down.
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12-06-2022, 09:06 PM
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I had a set of DA directmount rimbrakes on Pinkbike couple years ago and the buyer contacted me saying that he didnt like to use PP and didnt have an account to which I replied PP or nothing. He obviously wanted to do the etransfer thing but I refused that as well. Then he tried to explain how he had previous issues through PP and he was a lawyer from a city 2hrs away from me.
I then hit the scammer button on him and about a day later he replied that he had a PP account and agreed to use it finally. After I chatted with him I no longer suspected he was a scammer but maybe very impatient as he was building a bike that was sold but needed brakes or so he claimed. I got my money no big deal but just goes to show that you should always keep your guard up.
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