Yes @BlueFox . That's what I thought as well and I just checked ca. 2 weeks ago the status for 'Members only'. The reason why I was not so 'careful'. Just realized later the weirdness of the whole email conversation and then the different PayPal email address. After a re-check of the PM and when I realized the guy was just a 'GUEST' I immediately thought .... 'f....'. Contacted PayPal, but when payment is released and there's no 'pending' button, the payment is gone. Opened a scam/fraud ticked. Let's see. Just fits into other costly experiences as a buyer here.I thought only registered users could start conversations? At least that's what I see on my account page.
You shouldn't have any extra trust just because you are talking to someone who has registered an account here. We've seen registered members scam people too, sometimes after building quite a post count.Yes @BlueFox . That's what I thought as well and I just checked ca. 2 weeks ago the status for 'Members only'. The reason why I was not so 'careful'. Just realized later the weirdness of the whole email conversation and then the different PayPal email address. After a re-check of the PM and when I realized the guy was just a 'GUEST' I immediately thought .... 'f....'. Contacted PayPal, but when payment is released and there's no 'pending' button, the payment is gone. Opened a scam/fraud ticked. Let's see. Just fits into other costly experiences as a buyer here.
Same settings here ....
Well ... Never trust the forum software/settings. I'm not blaming it. But eBay is a bit more expansive, but a way safer place.
Yes, with this incident together I lost 1871EUR dealing with 'members' here in the last 18 months. Now with scam, others selling things not working and then staying quiet and others just don't want to bother with their shipping company and move on while keeping a nice face here. The one and only I always had positive experiences with was @Rand__ . Everything else, always trouble. Not satisfied.You shouldn't have any extra trust just because you are talking to someone who has registered an account here. We've seen registered members scam people too, sometimes after building quite a post count.
That's the point, full eBay protection.Assuming you paid with Paypal goods and services rather than the friends and family then ebay is no safer than this forum as there are plenty of scams there and in the end your real protection is from eBay or PayPal's buyer guarantees.
No offense but Paypal, eBay, the forum operator cannot police every scam and you have a personal responsibility to use common sense. A forum is not an ecommerce platform.And the forum operator stays quiet here providing a platform feature that is used against me/us. Don't get me wrong it's my own fault. But hey contact everyone here and say something or just kill the feature immediately. But for me dealing here privately with used parts is mostly negative. So I'm done with it.