URGENT - No Paypal F&F to NEW Members!!!!

[Mike]

Do not pay any NEW Soul Source member via the friends and family method on paypal

There is a very good chance that if you do you will lose your money!!!

We (soul source) can not help you due to the way paypal works

Any 'new' member with 0 or low posts selling items and asking you to pay by F&F is highly suspect!

Any 'new' member with 0 posts  pm-ing you reference posted wants and asking you to pay by F&F is highly suspect!

DO NOT PAY - REPORT/FLAG  THE PM AND MEMBER ASP!!!!!

[Vadnochka]

I've been looking at some Discogs listings from a European entry with 4 completely different genres - all big ticket items at @ 50% current market prices or better with no listing background and no sale to the UK stipulated - photos are stock items from other full price listings - Unfortunately there are still people out there that can't resist a bargain whether it be item price or avoiding fees and as a few members on here have confessed recently they've been caught out. So whatever the apparent incentive it's not a risk worth taking.

[Benji]

Discogs forum is full of threads about scammers using hacked abandoned accounts. People tend to wise up there. So these crooks are looking for alternatives now, e.g. Soul Source.

[Chalky]

Can new members who wish to sell go through some form of verification?  Also maybe restrict them to the forum until they have contributed to the site in some way?

[Geeselad]

It's not just tunes, I see posts warning of scams with collectables all the time. 

[Mike]

2 minutes ago, Chalky said:

Can new members who wish to sell go through some form of verification?  Also maybe restrict them to the forum until they have contributed to the site in some way?

looks like this 'member' was the same one as last time. joined up via a vpn  and then pm'd 5 members straight away after joining offering to fullfill thier wants, 2 member sent this guy $ via f&f paypal

this method of contacting possible buyers and dealing via pms, bypasses any form of validation we could setup

we are only aware when a member informs us

we did cut back pms and other features for new members after last time

but if you get a mesage from a new member who has 0 posts and demands payment by f&f then as been said many times simple advice is don't deal with the member

any mention of f&f should be a red flag in such cases

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Chalky]

If people still pay total strangers via f&f they deserve all they get really

[Jnixon]

Just ask them to send the record first then you’ll pay and leave feedback.