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My ebay auctions are open to some international trading. But I have gone the route of Paypal only for international selling. Unless it would be a trusted Bladeforums member that I have previously done business with.
Here in the USA I only take Paypal and Post Office money orders unless I know the person and have done a lot of business with them. And I take my Post Office money orders straight to the Post office and have the authenticated and cashed before I ship anything.
MY local postmaster and I have a very good comradery and she keeps me up to speed on all the newest scams out there. She said that there has been an alarming amount of counterfeit Post Office money orders here in the last 6 months. But she has a device at the Post Office which authenticates them.
Money ORders that used to be good as gold are now a popular "rip off vehicle". The money Orders from wal-mart are the biggest joke out there. wal-mart won't even cash their own money orders. Just another reason I loathe and abhor those bastards
. The postmaster also told me that there were a lot of counterfeit Western Union money orders going around too. But our brother is right> and I'm glad he did this thread because there are no shortages of scumbags and criminals out there and it's getting worse too 
Here in the USA I only take Paypal and Post Office money orders unless I know the person and have done a lot of business with them. And I take my Post Office money orders straight to the Post office and have the authenticated and cashed before I ship anything.
MY local postmaster and I have a very good comradery and she keeps me up to speed on all the newest scams out there. She said that there has been an alarming amount of counterfeit Post Office money orders here in the last 6 months. But she has a device at the Post Office which authenticates them.
Money ORders that used to be good as gold are now a popular "rip off vehicle". The money Orders from wal-mart are the biggest joke out there. wal-mart won't even cash their own money orders. Just another reason I loathe and abhor those bastards
. The postmaster also told me that there were a lot of counterfeit Western Union money orders going around too. But our brother is right> and I'm glad he did this thread because there are no shortages of scumbags and criminals out there and it's getting worse too 
i`d like to say that we as international customers are not all bad , i`m here in australia and have done business with several of my american brothers , via a western union money order . i don`t rip people off , i pay on time , i pay the full amount of shipping and insurance . and i don`t expect you to ship me anything until my money order to you has cleared . i also research you on the good the bad and the ugly beofre doing anything . i would of course expect you to do the same with me . just wanted to say that . i also don`t commit to buying anything unless i know i have the money to pay for it . i`d also like to say thanks to all those i have done business with , and i hope we can do it again with the same level of professionalism on both sides :thumbup:
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As far as I am concerned, if it smells even slightly fishy, I walk away from the deal. Where the other person is from is only important to me in the fact that it can be a pain to ship to certain countries.
The scam that was tried on Todd has been around for a long time in one form or another. I had it tried on me once. I informed the other person that nothing would be shipped until the money order had completely cleared, and that I would not ship the item until 60 days after taking the money order to the bank. I let him know that if he wanted things to go faster that he could wire me the exact amount through Western Union. I got a couple of more emails from the other person stating that he didn't understand my reluctance to ship as soon as I received payment, but I told him that was the only way I was going to do it. After that I never heard from him again.
The scam that was tried on Todd has been around for a long time in one form or another. I had it tried on me once. I informed the other person that nothing would be shipped until the money order had completely cleared, and that I would not ship the item until 60 days after taking the money order to the bank. I let him know that if he wanted things to go faster that he could wire me the exact amount through Western Union. I got a couple of more emails from the other person stating that he didn't understand my reluctance to ship as soon as I received payment, but I told him that was the only way I was going to do it. After that I never heard from him again.