Beware of Scammers when you post WTB

[brybart]

Yes that's the MO - Paypal friends because it offers no protection. At the very least do not use friends and family on PayPal, pay 1/2 on agreement and 1/2 when you receive the item. Or even push them to go to Ebay post the item with buy it now then transact there. If there is anything fishy they refuse every step of the way.

[CT986S]

An interesting point here, and some non-automotive forums I belong to as well. Things are out of hand, so the recommendation is to not deal with someone with no history. I am about to sell my PSE (not yet removed) but I have little buy/sell history on this site from YEARS ago. How does one acquire the history to be believable? I have no idea. On other sites I only have purchase history, which works I suppose. (Wife: Got a new amp? Are you selling the old one? Me: Uh, no...)

This is mostly rhetorical venting, I don't really think there is a good solution.
Kevin

[Luckyman01]

I do not know if there is a magic amount of posts to be credible. However when I was just recently trying to source a drivers sir cubby lid, I had two different contacts with recent joiners with one post. Both of which wanted me to interact through Gmail. Too shady for me.

Be careful out there.

David