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Widows Son
·As long as we're talking about cars... My fun car is a 1969 Lincoln mark lll. It's over 18 feet long and who knows what it weighs. If someone hits me, I think they're the one who will be the injured party.
Advice appreciated: new member contacted me for sale
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yande
·PayPal, Cheques, Wire Transfers, Cash. Anyone been to China in the past year or two? That is all gone. My last trip there, we couldn't get change the three times we did use cash. Thankfully we have a WePay, WeChat account. China is streaks ahead of the west in money transfers. Gone is the transfer of large amounts of cash, as well as most bank branches, and with my 78 year old Mother in law with a mobile, and WeChat account, she, along with the other 1,4billion do not seem to think there are any security issues. QR codes, 2 factor authentification for a house, a car, or a cup of coffee. It's a win win, especially for the Gov't., and in over 10 trips there, I have never experienced an internet or electricity outage. But then, when was the last time your heard or read a good news story about China, well in a 5 eyes country at least!
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Archer
··Omega Qualified Watchmakershe, along with the other 1,4billion do not seem to think there are any security issues.
I would suggest there are different types of security issues there.
It's a win win, especially for the Gov't., and in over 10 trips there, I have never experienced an internet or electricity outage.
When I was there it was the same, the internet was great, for the web sites I was allowed to see at least.
But then, when was the last time your heard or read a good news story about China, well in a 5 eyes country at least!
When they kidnap your citizens for political reasons, don't expect glowing reviews...
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SpikiSpikester
··@ ΩF... I'm not sure a drift into this sort of political territory is going to end well, on any level 😗
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Stripey
·As long as we're talking about cars... My fun car is a 1969 Lincoln mark lll. It's over 18 feet long and who knows what it weighs. If someone hits me, I think they're the one who will be the injured party.
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Tag7800
·As someone new to buying and selling privately myself whats the best way to make people comfortable dealing with me? I'm assuming phone and better video calls?
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steelfish
·Couple of things that set my spider senses on edge recently about a supposed buyer who I strongly suspect is a forum hoover:
- zero post count and no avatar
- starts a conversation with me every few days...at the very beginning. Same repeated questions almost as though he’s sent so many enquiries he can’t remember where he is
- doesn’t read my ad properly in respect of me wanting face to face only, bank transfer, local currency, my firm price
- offers completely random watches as part trade
- extreme low balling
- excusing low ball explaining he meant the offer on another watch from someone else
Funnily enough, not only a difficult and time consuming person to deal with - but clearly thinks I’ll eventually just give in sell it to him. We’ll see the watch I’m selling on eBay or C24 very soon after. Buy the buyer as well as buying the seller should be paramount. He can offer me my best price now in local currency and collect tonight - but I’m still going to say no as he’s already being dishonest.
Happy to share the name by PM if anyone wants to know who to avoid. I’d hazard a guess that he’s made a fair few enquires to private sellers on here now.
- zero post count and no avatar
- starts a conversation with me every few days...at the very beginning. Same repeated questions almost as though he’s sent so many enquiries he can’t remember where he is
- doesn’t read my ad properly in respect of me wanting face to face only, bank transfer, local currency, my firm price
- offers completely random watches as part trade
- extreme low balling
- excusing low ball explaining he meant the offer on another watch from someone else
Funnily enough, not only a difficult and time consuming person to deal with - but clearly thinks I’ll eventually just give in sell it to him. We’ll see the watch I’m selling on eBay or C24 very soon after. Buy the buyer as well as buying the seller should be paramount. He can offer me my best price now in local currency and collect tonight - but I’m still going to say no as he’s already being dishonest.
Happy to share the name by PM if anyone wants to know who to avoid. I’d hazard a guess that he’s made a fair few enquires to private sellers on here now.
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FreelanceWriter
·What used to be called Paypal « friends and family » ie now «send money to a trusted person » is also known to be non reversible.
Is that absolutely correct? I see from some other forums that payments haVe been reversed despite being made through F&F. The difference is that the ‘buyer’ claims their account was hacked or their funding card stolen. Slightly different MO from a non F&F transaction where it seems the most prevalent fraud is ‘I didn’t sign for my parcel or seller sent a box of rocks’. But it’s been recorded a few times that a F&F transaction was reversed. Clearly F&F transactions cut down the number of potential rip off avenues, but there’s still a big risk.
I too am surprised to hear that PayPal F&F transactions might be a problem.
I've been the Buyer on two watch deals this year and used PayPal F&F both times to send the money. It was the fastest and easiest way to send the money and I thought it was completely safe for the Seller.
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