A potential scam?

[Ankar Sheng]

I was contacted recently by someone looking to trade for some valuable knives, I made them an offer which was definitely in my favor, I was surprised they accepted the offer so readily. When I explained how I like to do trades, having their goods shipped first if I'm unfamiliar with them or they dont have solid feedback OR having both ship to a mutually agreed upon 3rd party they backed out.

Now it could be completely innocent, but I just had a bad feeling about it. If my hunch is right I'd hate to see someone else get suckered, but I really have no grounds to make an accusation, while this was suspicious nothing wrong actually transpired.

What would you do in my position?

 

[Kiah]

The fact that you've only been here a month or two and only have 1 feedback yourself may have scared them off.

 

[Ankar Sheng]

I wasnt contacted through bladeforums, and I'm not even sure if the fellow has an account here. I can see a number of reasons to back out of the trade, but what piqued my suspicion was that the problem was with how the exchange would happen. I mean, if any other explanation was given I wouldnt have even thought twice about it.

Anyway, like I said, I could be completely wrong.

 

[Kiah]

If you want, email me his info and I'll see if he's been mentioned before.

 

[3wolves]

Same thing happened to me too, it was the scammer from saudi arabia. He had never posted at all on BF, just sent emails. I guess it was to prevent one of the mods from seeing his IP adress.