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Yes...I had conversations with the seller on here and as far as I know are still there for any mods on here if they want to check. It all seems ok to me as far as the conversation before,during and after the event and indeed the seller messaged me to say he had sold the item as I did say if he gets a sale before I got back from holiday. I did ask him to contact his bank to make sure everything was ok his end but as I mentioned earlier I was out of pocket and he still had the item! It has to be said...could someone have hacked private messages on here and find out the bank details he sent me in private? And again as folk have already said how does that happen when me and the wife sent the payment to the right person and seen the payment sent off so to speak only for it to arrive in some strangers bank.

The only thing they would tell us the next day was that there was no sign of our account being hacked at all.

Trusted member on here......

Not surprised...

Had a conversation about buying a bass from Facebook market place and somewhere in the conversation was ''You make me the money today right away and I keep bass till morning so you come around.....'' I never paid nor went around!!

Do banks make mistakes?....lol

I offered the Paypal option and the seller said he had issues with his Paypal account. I know some folk don't like to use it for many reasons as discussed on other threads. The banks have a way of sorting this out and if everything is ok at our end and the person we sent the money to checks out then it's a refund. But again as mentioned they know what account the money really went to and there is no way that they will say how that has happened no matter what the reason is.

Yes...as far as I understand the APP thing...it's not that! The bank may just say that to wrap it up. They won't tell us anything even when they do pay the money back. It happened years ago with us. Someone got £200 odd pound from our account and it showed as being spent in Argos and the opposite end of the country. They asked the usual questions....does anyone else use our bank cards etc....Then after a couple of day's the money was refunded. Never heard anything after that!

I would say so. But I was surprised that they have put it down to an APP. We got on to them within the hour of the money being received and they told my wife that although they would ask a few questions about the transaction they can not and will not answer anything we have to ask.....

Yes....When we put in details that's what happened and it then went to pending showing the correct details. When it was marked as transaction complete a few hours later it showed a totally different name and other details. Very odd!

Sorry I am trying to keep it a bit private and not mentioning the name of the person or item. He will be on here and can comment if he wishes but as it works both way's I am sure that me having the money issue and him still having his...item has a lot to do with it! As I said it's not his fault but we are all in the same boat!

Yip....that's what I thought! I also thought that the money went straight in to the account! A wee example was selling a bass a going out to a venue that the person was playing,after checking his online facebook stuff etc and the guy paid me through bank transfer. I phoned the wife straight away and she confirmed the money was in our account..gave him the bass!.I have heard of some money transfers being reversed but not from your own bank! They tell you that in the banking instruction to make sure you do input all the correct details as if you make an derrière of it can be very difficult to get the money back. As usual I gave the the wife the blame! But all kidding aside we both checked before the money was sent and the bank has confirmed that we have sent it to the right person at the start. They won't/don't comment on where it ended up but they do know.

Yes...and I confirmed again with him when the issue came up. At first I thought that the wife had put a wrong digit but it was a totally different name,sort code and bank account on the payment cleared message on telephone banking.

Been a member for a few years on here and have bought and sold without any issues. Either by phone or message I have spoken to the other party either about the item/items,postage and arrangements,etc. About 10 day's ago I made contact with a trusted member on this site....well,let's be honest we are all trusted members I hope! He was selling an item and had reduced the price to £95 so I decided to contact him and make arrangements for payment. I offered to pay using bank transfer or paypal. He opted to ask for a bank transfer. In a private message he gave me his bank details and I asked my wife to do a bank transfer to him and checked after about half an hour to see if he had been paid. He said nothing had come through. We went out shopping and contacted him again after about an hour and a half....still nothing. I thought this was odd as I am sure in the past it has been almost straight away for a bank transfer....anyway later in the day about 4.30pm he contacted me to say it still wasn't through. I asked the wife to check the telephone banking app and sure enough it said payment cleared where earlier it had said pending. Now here is the thing,the payment had been sent to a totally different name,different bank account and sorting code! I double checked the details I had given the wife and sure enough she had entered the correct details. In fact we both seen his name and details at the start on the banking app and it was marked pending at the very start. Anyway I contacted the member and told him to double check that he had not received the money...nothing!! Anyway as most folk will know you have to contact the bank straight away....which is pretty hard on call centres and as they close at 7 we were lucky to speak to someone who froze my wife's card and told us to contact the fraud section next morning which we did.They asked loads of questions and asked about the transaction and where I was buying from. We were off on holiday for a week and heard nothing until this morning.We have been told at no time was our account hacked but that's all they can say at the moment. It was referred to as a authorised push payment scam (google that!!) I know they will refund the money and I know that the item has been sold to someone else (I told the member just to forget selling it to me because of the issues) Now...I am not saying that the member is in anyway at fault as as far as I can tell he has been a member of this forum for a very long time. The conversations we had in private about the item were spot on...I have had conversations with folk on facebook who were scammers and knew nothing and appeared not to even speak basic English!! Sorry about the length of this post but in light of the recent scam attempts on here recently does anyone think that the private message could have been hacked or had anything like this on here or elsewhere happen. I know they say that bank transfer is one if not the safest way to transfer money (within reason as long as you sent it to a trusted person and did a bit of digging) I also know folks thoughts on the pros and cons of Paypal on here and elsewhere. Any ideas folks?

He doesn't have it anymore. It was auctioned off in December 2021 for a charity. Fetched $471,900!

It's all a bit of publicity for old Paul!......That's about it! Must have a new album coming out!

Playing with Ruff Edge this week! Yes do pop in we are back in 20th October! I'll be honest I am not one for going along to pubs to see bands but I did manage about a year ago and joined in with the drinking from 2pm till about 10.45pm! Kind of ruined the next two days for me!

Great gig in a tiny pub in Lanark,Scotland. The Horse and Jockey. I had been told by some folk it was tiny and....it was! We managed though but it was like playing in a goldfish bowl at times with folk all around us. No stage to speak of just a corner next to the jukebox! It was a bit of an odd set up for us as the guitarists combo sat on my speaker cab and faced side on to the band. The keyboard player was also side on and looking at a wall or the bar all night! It got really full at one point when folk from the concert hall down the road piled in after a show! We went down a storm with folk asking us when we are coming back! The guy in charge gave us two more bookings for this year which surprised us as the usual carry on is doing a gig then spending the next month trying to get hold of the guy to book us again even when going down a storm! They are either too busy or never even seen the band on the night! Next time in we may spread out a bit. I really didn't want to take up any more of the space or tables as it was a mainly middle aged....ok old! audience and standing about all night right next to a band isn't really a fun night out! Well maybe not for everyone! It was very tight and I had to raise the neck of the bass to let folk pass and yes..it had to happen! Some guy tripped over my mike stand and it went flying towards me! Managed to catch it!!! Yes a great wee venue!

Great guitars.Had both the Classic and Vintera. Very well made,sounded ace but that wide neck didn't work for me. Took me a while to find out.I was going between several guitars at the time and most had jazz width necks. Maybe if I had had stuck at it...Player series great but not as good as my Squier Classic vibe p bass.

I suppose so....sounds a bit aspergers to me.

I think it's referred to as being ''on the spectrum'' these days.

Either Living In A Box or Going Underground will do me!!

After being told by a new social convener in a Glasgow social club back in the day that he would not be booking us again and we should forget any future bookings we decided to take a bit of revenge (we were young...and drunk) After we packed up we took all the bingo balls from the machine and chucked them on to the M8 on the way home. I seem to remember that the clubs PA amp got some lager poured in the air vent......I know!! Shocking! Pity as it was a decent club and the band always went down well! After writing this I also seem to remember the said convener giving us a bit of lip then being attacked by the drummer! Oh dear.........