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Shit, so that was him as well. I remember seeing your posts about that (I was watching his thread as I was thinking of selling my carbon copy so wanted see what they were going for).
Some of his prices did seem a bit too good to be true, glad I held off but hope you guys get some resolution!
I will only go forward with a purchase if I'm confident the guy has a fair few frets. Once again I hope this fucker gets caught.
You do put faith in your fellow human when dealing on here, the majority of people are fantastic to deal with, it really is a shame that a select few spoil for the rest!
Probably not a bad place to remind new users that we have a good traders thread in the misc forum of the classifieds here:
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/247/good-traders-version-4/p1
I rarely deal with people unless they have at least one entry on the first page total.
Sorry to hear that a lot of you have been done over. Best of luck getting it resolved.
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I think @Chalky's idea of not being able to sell items until you have bought at least a couple, so that your address is proven (at least at some level) would be a good safeguard. It wouldn't be a 'chicken-egg' situation because of the many proven safe sellers.
I did wonder if some sort of escrow system supported by the forum for new sellers might be worth trying.. but it would probably cause more problems than it solves.
It's good to see everyone pulling together to nail this twat,
Unfortunately for me I was a new member at the time and had just had some incredibly easy dealings with a couple of members and I was lured into buying a pedal from scalded_ape. Initially he was very helpful but then ceased all communication.
I got as far as tracking him down as a photographer and tried to contact him direct through his website.
Unfortunately no reply received and I'm still £60 down.