Attention New measures to stop scams and dishonest behavior in the Exchange

knarfeng said:
I'm absolutely in favor of immediate adoption of Rule 1.
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Hi Frank, the banner at the top of the page within the exchange states that sales threads need a pic of the knife with a written note containing the date and your username. Within the main page of the exchange rules it says the same, date and username.

The first post in this thread is the only post saying that the note also needs to include “BladeForums” or “BFC”, kinda seems like you’re fighting an uphill battle because of this.
 
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Jsega51 said:
Hi Frank, the banner at the top of the page within the exchange states that sales threads need a pic of the knife with a written note containing the date and your username. Within the main page of the exchange rules it says the same, date and username.

The first post in this thread is the only post saying that the note also needs to include “BladeForums” or “BFC”, kinda seems like you’re fighting an uphill battle because of this.
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Spark has fixed that.
 
I'm going to note, that Spark said:
All for sale threads must contain a picture of the knife or item with a note showing the username of the seller, the date the thread is being made, and BladeForums or BFC mentioned on the note. To prevent photoshopping this should be hand written but if you want to print it out and take multiple pictures from angles, be my guest, but you must show the knife (or item) is in hand and available when listing.
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That means that you cannot satisfy the requirement by electronically adding the information via photoshop or other photo modifying software. The information needs to be IN the photo WITH the knife on a PIECE OF PAPER. The whole reason for the requirement is so that a seller cannot doctor up some knife photo the found on the web and claim it to be a knife they are selling. So adding the information electronically is absolutely not acceptable.
 
Effective immediately we are implementing two new rules to help curb scams and dishonest behavior in the Exchange

1. All for sale threads must contain a picture of the knife or item with a note showing the username of the seller, the date the thread is being made, and BladeForums or BFC mentioned on the note. To prevent photoshopping this should be hand written but if you want to print it out and take multiple pictures from angles, be my guest, but you must show the knife (or item) is in hand and available when listing.
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A watermark or addition to a photo does not suffice. You must place the "note" with the knife in the images...not stamp or append a photo with the requested information.
knarfeng said:
I'm going to note, that Spark said:


That means that you cannot satisfy the requirement by electronically adding the information via photoshop or other photo modifying software. The information needs to be IN the photo WITH the knife on a PIECE OF PAPER. The whole reason for the requirement is so that a seller cannot doctor up some knife photo the found on the web and claim it to be a knife they are selling. So adding the information electronically is absolutely not acceptable.
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As someone found out the hard way earlier today...after deciding it was a hill worth dying on. (Well, he can come back in a week if he decides to cooperate.)
 
Blues said:
As someone found out the hard way earlier today...after deciding it was a hill worth dying on. (Well, he can come back in a week if he decides to cooperate.)
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I've had similar discussions with several sellers. But they apparently considered the real estate less valuable.
 
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Spark said:
They may be able to change the pics but they won’t be able to change the text.
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It should be a guidance on how to post in a thread knifes that I want to sell. Sorry for the confusion regarding previous post with Demko AD20’s that I was selling
 
Reddit make a copy of original post in 2nd comment.
Whatever TS edit the comment, you still can read the original text.
 
Spark said:
Effective immediately we are implementing two new rules to help curb scams and dishonest behavior in the Exchange

1. All for sale threads must contain a picture of the knife or item with a note showing the username of the seller, the date the thread is being made, and BladeForums or BFC mentioned on the note. To prevent photoshopping this should be hand written but if you want to print it out and take multiple pictures from angles, be my guest, but you must show the knife (or item) is in hand and available when listing.

2. The For Sale areas now have a time limit on editing posts of 30 minutes, and threads of 1 hour. After that, the post cannot be edited to remove information. If you need to make price drops? Post them in the replies; since threads don't get bumped this will not harm anything or break rules. This will prevent people from breaking relisting rules by deleting items from posts and relisting them the next day.

People continue to be scammed by fraudulent sellers demanding Paypal Friends & Family. We cannot prevent you from foolishly sending money without buyer protection that Goods & Services provide, but hope that these measures help prevent people from offering knives they do not have using pics harvested from the web.
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Sorry, newbi here how would you recommend we ask for payment or pay the payment through ? Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 
keith2358 said:
Sorry, newbi here how would you recommend we ask for payment or pay the payment through ? Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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If both members have paid memberships, payment information should only be communicated via Direct Message (DM)

Many sellers insist that buyers have a paid account so that financial details can be DM'ed. (DM's are private between the participants of the conversation.) A Basic membership is $10 for a year. That's cheap insurance.

If you want to do business via email, I would suggest the following:
1-- Don't use your regular email address that you use for other things. Get a Yahoo or other free email account and only use it for knife selling. That way you can post an email address in public and have some control over the spam, scam, et. al. that you will need to deal with.
2--Post that special email in the thread if asked by a buyer who cannot DM. Make the buyer contact you, so he knows exactly who he is emailing.
3--Once they buyer contacts you, Prove to the buyer that you are the actual seller by having him ask for specific photos of the knife. Perhaps have him give you a test word and you send him a photo of the knife with that word scrawled on a piece of paper together with the knife in the photo.

4--BF recommends PayPal Goods and services for paying transactions. It protects the buyer and it conforms to the PayPal terms of service.
5--We vehemently do NOT recommend PayPal Friends and Family for paying for items. There is no protection for the buyer and it violates the PayPal terms of service.

But the sale is between two people. BF is a third party observer. We are just a bulletin board where people post their sales ads, much like the want ads that used to be in the newspapers. So caveat emptor.
 
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