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After knowing how the internet auction works, you start now checking agendas of scammers. There lots of scammers eying in every internet auction buyer and seller. What they need to do is to earn money through nothing and being a buyer this are things which you can avoid to be scammed:
-- Always put in mind to be cautious in closing a deal from any foreign countries.
-- Also we beware of replicas of well known brand items.
-- whenever you purchase through an internet auction it will always best to pay using credit card which will actually gives you an opportunity to dispute charge.
-- Eye on the shipping and handling fees, there are lots of sellers who price their stuff very low but will charge you wit a high shipping fee.
-- Internet auction always have a feedback systems wherein buyers are privileged to report how their transaction ended, whether it was shipped on time, was there an accurate description of the product, packaging and anything more which concerns it.
-- Knowing the actual scenario that you are both in different side of the world, it will be difficult to say if the item which will be sent to you is the exact product you seen at internet auction.
-- Be ware shill bidding, it is a way of the seller to place a higher amount to his product by bidding for his own items against a buyer.
-- There internet auction that has an escrow service, this will hold your payment until you received your product.
The following are ways on how seller can avoid to be scammed:
-- There are buyers who will ask a seller to send the product to a different address other than the one filed for any alibis such as a gift for someone or th buyer is on travel. The problem here is that there are no protection for package if it was sent to the address other than the one in file. If the buyer claims that they haven't received it then they will have they money back.
-- If the payment is through check wait until the check is cleared before making the shipping.
-- A best form of payment when it comes to an internet auction will always be Paypal and credit cards. Beware of buyers who has no confirmable address or a reliable service which can track a package shipped to a certain country which allows buyers to claim that they haven't received anything yet so the tendency will be the payment will return to them though they already received the product.
-- Make sure the shipment will require the buyer to sign fro the package which was being received. |
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