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- From: magundi@csd.uwo.ca (John MacDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,tor.forsale,biz.marketplace.computers.other,biz.marketplace.computers.discussion
- Subject: Re: Dealing Safely
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 04:07:47 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
- Message-ID: <4fubij$qut@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
- References: <935.6611T1153T2407@idirect.com> <4fo7ld$584@steel.interlog.com> <4fohs0$2va@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <4fqeu1$pmp@steel.interlog.com>
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- In article <4fqeu1$pmp@steel.interlog.com>,
- jasonb <jasonb@gold.interlog.com> wrote:
- >-All three times that I have been ripped off, people have been in
- >-this category.
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- >There seems to be one common thread here - it is _your_ money you are
- >risking (and losing). I wouldn't do business this way, any more than I
- >would if I dealt with the person over the phone or by mail. If I'm
- >going to lay down cash for an item I would expect a face-to-face
- >meeting _or_ third party verification of the reliability of the seller.
- >
- >People who are repeated victims of fraud should be even more wary than
- >the average person when it comes to verifiying the legitimacy of the
- >vendor.
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- The first two times I got stung were within days of each other.
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- The third time was with someone I had dealt with before, and trusted.
- Otherwise I wouldn't have agreed to deliver equipment to him knowing
- that it would be at least a week before I got anything in return.
- It has been 5 months now and I still haven't got everything I was
- promised, and most of what I got was broken. ( Don't deal with
- Sean Rooney aka cathar@passport.ca aka cathar@acm.org )
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