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Glaucus · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:01

Never had a problem buying or selling, if there only just over 250 posts, then see where and what they have posted. If it's all spam then give a wide birth.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:07

Azza said:
I got banned from the MM a long long time ago so

Now I know why you where asking me to try and sell your stuff, you carnt see the MM.

what did you get banned for?? :confused:

I always thought you seemed a little Nigerian.... you run too fast ¬.¬

Richdog · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:21

Vixen said:
I'm pretty sure he has never refunded anything. The two items I can think of offhand weren't fully broken, but parts were damaged and they only worked sometimes. I think he claimed they had been damaged in the post or something.

Does he still use MM?

Cuchulain · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:36

m4cc45 said:
I only have two points:

1. Home phone number means nothing really as you can lie about your address with the right phone number or be at a mates / work / etc. I only have a mobile phone because I don't want to pay £115 to BT but I haven't ripped anyone off.

2. The only way I can see of making it better is the money going to an intermediary (but this brings in its own problems). I.e. someone buys something the pay OCUK and then once its received, tested, etc. OCUK forwards the money to the seller. If they don't hear anything from the buyer after x amounts of days its forwarded.

I can't think of any real system that is viable though.

M.

Actually that's a very good idea, some kind of escrow service where the money isn't transferred until the buyer has received what he/she paid for.

sanaxe1 · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:36

I dont think theres much that can be done thats just how it is. thousands of transactions go smooth then the odd one where it does not you just have to be carefull. I also think that if there was a way on how to stop scammingthen surely ebay would have implemented it because we all know the amounts of scamming on there.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:38

Cuchulain said:
Actually that's a very good idea, some kind of escrow service where the money isn't transferred until the buyer has received what he/she paid for.

have to do recorded delivery too.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:40

Where is the mm anyway, i cant see it?

Glaucus · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:45

Cuchulain said:
Actually that's a very good idea, some kind of escrow service where the money isn't transferred until the buyer has received what he/she paid for.

rubbish idea, you'll just get scammed the other way round, item hasn't arrived/damaged, escrow refunds money and they get item. How ever you look at it scams can happen, you just have to minimize eh risk, by which ever way suits you.

Like how did someone get 12 trusts when he only had 253 posts.

Tefal said:
Where is the mm anyway, i cant see it?

if you have never used it, you have to ask a mod, or fill in your trust details.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:47

Vixen said:
I know someone who has a relatively high trust with no negatives who has knowingly sold broken stuff on mm and other places, so just having a high trust doesn't mean they have morals.

Well name and shame and actually fufill the purpose of a trust system then!

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:49

AcidHell2 said:
if you have never used it, you have to ask a mod, or fill in your trust details.

Do i have to fill in every field because i don't have all of those things?

How can i ask a mod thought pm's where disabled?

Vixen · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:52

markyp23 said:
Well name and shame and actually fufill the purpose of a trust system then!

It was a few years ago now, so it would just be vindictive to give a name. Hopefully he has matured a little since then.

Glaucus · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:53

Tefal said:
Do i have to fill in every field because i don't have all of those things?

How can i ask a mod thought pm's where disabled?

Not all of it, email a mod, look in faq for address'

Cuchulain · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:54

AcidHell2 said:
rubbish idea, you'll just get scammed the other way round, item hasn't arrived/damaged, escrow refunds money and they get item. How ever you look at it scams can happen, you just have to minimize eh risk, by which ever way suits you.

If they arrive damaged hopefully you've been sensible enough to add insurance, I always do, maybe you should engage the grey matter before rubbishing an idea in future? They're not exactly scammers if they get nothing out of the deal.

Glaucus · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:56

Cuchulain said:
If they arrive damaged hopefully you've been sensible enough to add insurance, I always do, maybe you should engage the grey matter before rubbishing an idea in future?

insurance or not, you can still get scammed though escrow system, why do you think they have got such a reputation for scamming, far more so than pay pal and thats bad enough.

sanaxe1 · 13 Sep 2007 at 17:59

Cuchulain said:
If they arrive damaged hopefully you've been sensible enough to add insurance, I always do, maybe you should engage the grey matter before rubbishing an idea in future?

ESCROW is the thing that scammers use the most. ESCROW should only be used with someone you trust. Ebay doesn't allow the use of ESCROW either.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 18:00

Cuchulain said:
If they arrive damaged hopefully you've been sensible enough to add insurance, I always do, maybe you should engage the grey matter before rubbishing an idea in future? They're not exactly scammers if they get nothing out of the deal.

who says it was really damaged?

Cuchulain · 13 Sep 2007 at 18:01

AcidHell2 said:
insurance or not, you can still get scammed though escrow system, why do you think they have got such a reputation for scamming, far more so than pay pal and thats bad enough.

I don't think any reputable escrow system has a bad reputation, they pay, escrow holds the funds, you send the item, the buyer says the item is damaged, they send it back, you receive it, you claim on the insurance, the buyer then get's there money back and is back where he started ..... who's been scammed?

Cuchulain · 13 Sep 2007 at 18:02

Tefal said:
who says it was really damaged?

You'd find out when the item is returned, the price they paid isn't refunded until that happens.

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 18:02

Cuchulain said:
I don't think any reputable escrow system has a bad reputation, they pay, escrow holds the funds, you send the item, the buyer says the item is damaged, they send it back, you receive it, you claim on the insurance, the buyer then get's there money back and is back where he started ..... who's been scammed?

they may just break your par an send it back to **** you off?

Tefal · 13 Sep 2007 at 18:03

Cuchulain said:
You'd find out when the item is returned, the price they paid isn't refunded until that happens.

Oh didn't know that, they might just say you sent an empty box or a brink though :/