Be Carefull what you buy a true story

[picturesbyme]

Well, I have a really good deal right here.

Make me an offer.

Thanks.

LOL, nice. I have the Bible on an iphone app, and it updates about once a month, so I'm really starting to wonder what they're updating!

I would check what are the apps' permissions?
Does it have access to your phone's location, state, browser activities...etc.?
Whenever I download an app for my Android I read the description and it states what the apps wants to access... i.e. a calculator or book doesn't need to know my call history or my browser activities.. So if yours is like that .... besides the regular bug fixes it could provide them little updates from You...

 

[wellfedCanuck]

It's the wild west out there.

I've had two experiences. The first was while trying to sell a 30' travel trailer on sites such as rvtrader. Over a year I received dozens of emails such as one quoted above- the time pressure, unavailability in person, sending a "purchasing agent", buying a gift for a brother or other family member.

The red flags went up immediately- nobody buys a $20K RV sight unseen. Arrangements must be made for transport and license transfer, yet the buyer was always curiously unconcerned with these aspects of the transaction. AND- who sells an RV by Paypal?!

The worst tho, is that I have a handicapped sister who falls for internet scams all the time. Most of these are online-job type scenarios or contest wins which require shipping payments. She has sent close to $3000 in about 8 or 9 transactions over the past 3 years. I pull my hair out trying to convince her to always run these schemes past me before visiting the Western Union office but she is very independant. I'm in an awkward position of trying to guide someone who has the intellect of a child but is legally a competent adult.

I've spoken to Western Union and three different police departments, had statements filed and interviews conducted, but all the authorities ever do is provide sympathetic noises and issue safety lectures to my sister.

It's a terrible thing- that there are people out there without conscience who prey upon the vulnerabilities of others, but that's the nature of the times in which we live. I only hope that there's some sort of cosmic justice or karmic retribution for these criminals.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Scammers count on greed. Some people want to believe that they can get that crazy low priced deal.


Thats why those penny auction sites do so well, get a expensive camera for $50?? Yet they suck people in by the thousands.

The biggest source of frauds is in the USA, thats why so many target the US.

 

[Neeneko]

Lol. It does depend on where you are - the Boston CL is very active, I even see superteles occasionally (400/4 DO and 500/4 fairly recently).

Philly seems moderately active, but most of what I go looking for is vintage, which there just isn't much of it on the market in the first place. The lens I just got (the damaged one) I had been watching eBay for months before even a single one popped up.