Flea Market threads, Suggestions, Advice

[medman1952]

Nov 30, 2006 13:55:37 GMT -5 strangerdejavu said:

(Edit, Note from Dawg: I am going to sticky this thread and add a further warning. Even if you are buying or selling to an individual without the weirdness you read about on this post, the internet is a strange place. I would suggest using safeguards such as paying via paypal or some other means which provides a little protection. There was an incident on another forum where a gal sold some performance parts. Several folks sent the $ but never got the parts. ScootDawg Forum is not responsible if you get scammed. End edit.)

Hey everyone. I recieved an email this morning about the electric scooter I have posted for sale here. As of this point, it may still be an honest purchase, but it smells funny to me. I will post the email on here if I find the buyer not to be credible.

The red flags include that the buyers writing is in broken english. He wants to pay me my asking price (plus an additional $100 for my trouble) through an 'associate' in the US through either a cashier's check or money order. He will also handle the shipping of the scoot. Interesting!

As I said, this guy may be 100% honest, and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. However, I got curious and did some research. It turns out that there have been recent cases of cashier's check falsification. If you let your product go and find out that the check is bad, YOU'RE responsible for the money! If you see a situation like this, do as I'm going to and tell them that you'll have to hold onto whatever you're selling for 10 days to allow the check to go through. Then you'd be happy to send it out.

Here are some resources:

www.bankersonline.com/security/nigerianchecks.html

www.bankrate.com/brm/news/chk/20020213a.asp?keyword=&authorid=22&firstn=Laura&middlen=&lastn=Bruce


If you guys have recieved similar emails, please post here about it! (Dawg, may I suggest you make this thread sticky?)

[medman1952]

Jul 13, 2008 18:48:08 GMT -5 Jacine said:

Scootdawg strongly recommends that buyers check the authenticity of any product before purchasing. Copyright infringements as well as the sale of "knock-off" or counterfeit merchandise is not condoned nor sanctioned by this forum. Any advertisement for merchandise proven not to be authentic will be removed without notice.