Buying & Selling Safely

An excellent resolution. Kudos to the DFS admin team and the buyer for making things right.

I have a Wolfman I want to sell but after reading this thread I’ll just keep it. Is there a middle man service that can be used to prevent scams?

I have a Wolfman I want to sell but after reading this thread I’ll just keep it. Is there a middle man service that can be used to prevent scams?

I know of no middle man.
List your razor.
Do not accept "email requests" PM's ONLY.
Take only PayPal Goods and Services.
This is a great forum to safely buy and sell.

Wow, quite the story in this thread.

I hope the ending has the fewest downsides. There is always risk in buying or selling items online, especially rare and expensive ones. I see threads similar on a guitar forum I frequent as well.

One suggestion for the future would be to email agree to split any non-recoverable costs like currency exchange losses (or gains I suppose).


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I am working on a buyer/seller verification system with an engineering friend of mine (who is brilliant) that may be used when we switch over to the new forum software in a few months. if it's ready, it'll be mandatory to go through in order to use the bst system on DFS.

Yikes that got messy

I am working on a buyer/seller verification system with an engineering friend of mine (who is brilliant) that may be used when we switch over to the new forum software in a few months.  if it's ready, it'll be mandatory to go through in order to use the bst system on DFS.

Interesting. I’m sure it’s something you can’t really speak on much yet so obviously no worries if you’re not able to comment, but is that something that would replace PayPal as the payment processor/middleman, or act in some capacity along with it?

I am working on a buyer/seller verification system with an engineering friend of mine (who is brilliant) that may be used when we switch over to the new forum software in a few months.  if it's ready, it'll be mandatory to go through in order to use the bst system on DFS.

Interesting. I’m sure it’s something you can’t really speak on much yet so obviously no worries if you’re not able to comment, but is that something that would replace PayPal as the payment processor/middleman, or act in some capacity along with it?

I doubt DFS is setting up a rival to PayPal. Sounds like it may be some sort of a verification system

I am working on a buyer/seller verification system with an engineering friend of mine (who is brilliant) that may be used when we switch over to the new forum software in a few months.  if it's ready, it'll be mandatory to go through in order to use the bst system on DFS.

Interesting. I’m sure it’s something you can’t really speak on much yet so obviously no worries if you’re not able to comment, but is that something that would replace PayPal as the payment processor/middleman, or act in some capacity along with it?

the system would just verify that the person is who they say they are, while being anonymous to DFS itself - meaning, my friend's system, if I understand it correctly, would just tell me if they pass the checks or not without passing any directly identifying information back to me.

I imagine his system would allow us to set whatever parameters we want to verify: name, address, phone number, photo id, etc..

I am working on a buyer/seller verification system with an engineering friend of mine (who is brilliant) that may be used when we switch over to the new forum software in a few months.  if it's ready, it'll be mandatory to go through in order to use the bst system on DFS.

Interesting. I’m sure it’s something you can’t really speak on much yet so obviously no worries if you’re not able to comment, but is that something that would replace PayPal as the payment processor/middleman, or act in some capacity along with it?

the system would just verify that the person is who they say they are, while being anonymous to DFS itself - meaning, my friend's system, if I understand it correctly, would just tell me if they pass the checks or not without passing any directly identifying information back to me.

I imagine his system would allow us to set whatever parameters we want to verify: name, address, phone number, photo id, etc..

And I assume that this facility/checks apply to non-USA members as well. I am just scratching my head because it's very difficult to validate ID proofs from different countries. A scamster here could/would be a scamster in real life too.

Still I believe this move can act as a first line of defense.

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