Mike1962 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Hi, Anybody else experienced scam offers trying to take you off site with a dodgy looking link? I've not used Reverb much before. 3 dodgy offers in the first 2 days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Yeah had two in the last month. really bored of dealing with scammers now, it’s bloody rife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1962 Posted July 7 Author Share Posted July 7 It's everywhere! Tried advertising anything on FaceBook...🙄🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 23 minutes ago, Mike1962 said: It's everywhere! Tried advertising anything on FaceBook...🙄🤣🤣 Weirdly if you add a disclaimer at the bottom of your ad on Facebook “no scammers - I won’t let courier collect for an envelope of cash, or your cousin who’s passing on business cannot collect etc” it seems to reduce the volume of scammers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1962 Posted July 7 Author Share Posted July 7 Good point! I'll do that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 19 minutes ago, AndyTravis said: Weirdly if you add a disclaimer at the bottom of your ad on Facebook “no scammers - I won’t let courier collect for an envelope of cash, or your cousin who’s passing on business cannot collect etc” it seems to reduce the volume of scammers Sometimes, the simple things do work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 3 minutes ago, Burns-bass said: Sometimes, the simple things do work! I just found it interesting - I presumed they were just scam bots sending blanket messages… turns out they’re reading the ads 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 I haven’t had any on reverb , but if i put anything on gumtree I get a scammer within 2 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Make a note on your ad that you will pass scammers details to the Police Fraud hotline...and do it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 1 hour ago, AndyTravis said: it seems to reduce the volume of scammers 👍 In my experience too, and not only that: my ads listing several scam types that would be efficiently dealt with, gave me the thumbs up from potential serious buyers - this creating a bond of sorts. One particular scammer-of-sorts responded to every gawdemn ad I posted, no matter what I tried to sell, offering swaps: tatty old amps in exchange for lim.ed. EBMMs, for example. Yeah right, and then you manipulate me into sending the bass first, so you can drop sending the leaky-condensatored amp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzyJ Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Had two offers on Reverb last week. One of which was 21p lower than asking price, the other offering to pay full price. Including the dodgy link of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 It seems to be the default thing as soon as you advertise anything with a value for sale on pretty well any site. eBay probably less so as they don't provide a way for people to directly contact you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshy Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Reverb is full of scams now, normally get an offer for full price rather than a straight buy option and then they send the dodgy link. Had lots, told reverb and nothing seems to happen. Unfortunately thats the way of the world atm, full of chancer w**kers. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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