21 Aug
2008
21 Aug
'08
8:23 a.m.
Heh. To be honest, I'd trust people on this list,
as I do other lists that
I'm on. I'd find it hard to trust someone on ebay (I've never actually
bought anything via ebay before). Maybe it just feels more like a community
here, which makes it seem like someone has more to lose if they try to screw
me over. That's probably rather stupid ;)
So basically you are basing your fears of online scammers on hearsay
and rumors, ignoring the established feedback system most sites have
in place, as well as the elaborate protection schemes that greatly
bias towards buyers over sellers - and trusting email lists where
pretty much can hide behind a keyboard.
Re. shrinkwrapping though, it still seems open to
scamming - people willing
to spend extra money for a shrinkwrapped vintage product are *probably*
going to leave that product shrinkwrapped - a seller could easily shrinkwrap
something incomplete and/or internally damaged and in the few cases where
they got caught out, just claim that it must have been down to natural
decay, a production error, or whatever.
Everything is open to scamming. There are even scammers on this list -
they are among us. At least a couple of regulars on this list have
scammed people in the past, and others have plain old poor ethics when
it comes to the art of the deal.
--
Will