8. If it is small amount and pay by paypal, you can check the buyer by pretending to send them a payment to see if he/she is verified and how many transctions thay have.
Right, see my brief "How to do it" explanation below:
- Login to your PayPal account
- Send Money
- Try to send $0.01 to the sellerâs email address
- It will lead you to the âreview your paymentâ page
- Click on the link under the sellerâs email account. Looks like that: [Non-U.S. Verified Premier Member (280)]
- You will see the following table
Seller Reputation: (280) Verified Buyers
Account Status: Verified
Account Type: TR Premier
Account Creation Date: Sep. 18, 2004
PayPal Member For: 3 year 10 months 29 days
I usually never deal with sellers with
Unverified accounts, those with
reputation = 0 or close to that and those who have their accounts for less then 3 months or so.
- Google sellerâs/buyers email account and forum nickname to check if you will find something about the seller.
- Ask to send you a test verification email from the email used in Paypal
- Ask the buyer/seller if he has any accounts on other domain/business forums; check for his iTrader and reputation there
- Analyze sellerâs/buyers posts on DNF and other boards
- If he is an active member somewhere else then DNF â send a PM there and ask to reply to it
- Find any other domain names owned by the same individual and try to phone the # from WHOIS
How to avoid chargebacks on PayPal, do smooth transactions and not getting scammed ...
Sellers know how bad is a chargeback. There are a few usefull hints to minimize the chance of being scammed by that method while you use paypal on your tibia trades:
1- Wait no less than 2 days after receiving the payment before sending virtual items. The more days you wait the safer you can feel. If someone want it fast tell him to wait or else you should cancel the payment.
2- Never accept unverified accounts while trading with virtual items that you can't recover in case of chargeback. Return his money or ask him to get verified status. This might take around 1 week and this waiting is good for you as said in point 1
3- Avoid to do big trades directly with an unknown person that never traded with you before. If you receive a big payment from an unknown person you should return his money inmediately and do not send him anything.
4- Never do trades with anyone in the black list. If you receive a payment from one you should return him his money inmediately and do not send him anything.
Anyways you still can get scammed because paypal overprotect the customers and they know how to abuse on it. You can also get chargebacks after some months. We all know that this is a scam (except paypal), and if it happens to you at the end then please at least help the rest to avoid being scammed by posting his name/paypal email in this thread.
This is the list of known paypal accounts that scam on tibia trades through chargeback.
Any report is enough to add them. The name of the user(s) who say that he is a scammer is stored for internal use, but not displayed.
Ok, here it goes. Avoid trading with them - the black list:
http://www.blackdtools.com/blacklist.php