mpix345 Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Paul Mo wrote:
I have always thought that if you want to sell online you should have to, for a fee, register with the police - providing i.d., etc - and they give you a code/username (or whatever). So if you scam someone everyone knows exactly who it is and they can issue a warrant. Open to abuse, blah de blah, but as it is it's too easy to rip people off - if you're an asshole.
The idea sounds strange, but the 'net can be like hustling weed in Lagos.
There's certainly some truth to that (I think), but it's also good to remember that we need to do all we can with existing safeguards to help ourselves. In this case if the OP had opted for signature confirmation he would've been covered. I saw another post recently where someone failed to get basic delivery confirmation on a cheap item and got screwed over.
I've received plenty of gear worth many thousands of dollars that was sent without insurance or signature confirmation. Leaving your success in a transaction up to the good nature of other people is a bad bet that will bite you sooner or later.
At least if you are dealing weed in Lagos you come at it expecting the worst, not assuming no one will try to rip you off.
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