Author:  SylvainLS  Posted:  Feb 2, 2017 20:34  Subject:  Re: This will reduce scammers by 95%  Viewed:  50 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card SylvainLS (46) Location:  France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Member Since Contact Type Status Apr 25, 2014 Seller  Store: BuyerOnly BrickLink Discussions Moderator (?)

In Suggestions, caseyne writes:    […] You can add more to it. Like have inventory of more then 50 lots. Defining thresholds is hard and by piling conditions you’re making it harder for genuine occasional stores too (someone selling their few childhood sets or their children’s).    The scammer will not wait 30 days. The whole reason they do it, because its so easy. List sets thats highly in depend for cheap and then close. Next day start a new store and do it again. This is probably the easiest to program and get going. That was my point: I’m not sure they won’t have that patience if it’s just waiting doing nothing. Unless you add conditions… which will make it too complicated for everybody. Genuine sellers will go elsewhere too. (Granted, occasional sellers might be less numerous than scammers….) Heartbricker’s proposal already bothers me for that same reason: you should be able to sell without buying first. All the “forbid to sell this or that before this or that” proposals bother me… unless there’s also the option of a real vetting process (of which buyers are informed, else, it’s useless). We don’t know much about the current vetting process’s efficacity. Mainly because we don’t know which stores were or not vetted and if it prevented scams. But all it does is allow other payment methods than Paypal. And that Paypal obligation is easily bypassed with gullible buyers, so, actually, scammers don’t even need to be vetted. There’s another vetting process already in place: feedback. And we already know it’s not efficient. It’s not sufficient to prevent buyers to get scammed as they happily enter unbelievable deals with 0 FB sellers. So, either get buying FB first (BLers’ vetting), or go through a real admin vetting. No need to add conditions to what can be sold when.

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Re: This will reduce scammers by 95% - bb451451 (143)

[...] You can add more to it. Like have inventory of more then 50 lots. The scammer will not wait 30 days. The whole reason they do it, because its so easy. List sets thats [...] (89 months ago, Feb 2, 2017, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - Heartbricker (18307) 89 months ago Feb 1, 2017 to Suggestions
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