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Thread started by Demon_Skeith
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I wouldn't call it cool to show the drag burns really.
rossonomous
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I generally find face to face trades a better way of dealing. I don't like posting expensive things, especially when you are dealing with second-hand stuff.
I think is this is a pretty rare event. You are more likely to be scammed online than robbed in person. Pretty much everything you do online is tracked so to actually find a victim online then go and rob them in real life is pretty senseless. I wonder what sentencing they will get and how long they will actually serve for. As the link to the story is down I did some research here is a new link for the story
I can't find out how long these people have been jailed for or anything. I'm really surprised this story hasn't reached more people?
I can't find out how long these people have been jailed for or anything. I'm really surprised this story hasn't reached more people?
That is horrible, luckily that has never happened to me. I don't do face to face trading if it is a cheap object which I can send via mail. If I sell more expensive things, I always to face to face. This way I know for sure that I get my money and everything happens fair.
I'm going to chime in with an unpopular opinion--
I shop online, buying second hand stuff that's taken me to strange meeting places to meet interesting and industrious people who are honest and have cool stories. The only time I got scammed was when I didn't meet them. When you're on the cusp of halfway decent human being and jerk, the anonymity and disconnection can actually facilitate scamming.
Of course, losing money is just a concept compared to very real road burns, so the balance of "the worst that can happen" can make face-to-face trades, and I understand why so many people here wouldn't want to put themselves in practical potential physical danger versus mere risk of getting scammed. I live the luckiest statistics, though, so... hence my bias.
This isn't, in my opinion, a problem with face-to-face meetups.
The only problem in this entire scenario was that this Christopher Alexis is a selfish, privileged, entitled douche bag and a bully. With cowardly accomplices in his life of crime and all of them I've got too much vitriol and not enough vocabulary. The victim was looking for an hones trade, and was only fifteen. What they did was not okay.
Okay, well basically I concur with the post quoted above.Death said:
I shop online, buying second hand stuff that's taken me to strange meeting places to meet interesting and industrious people who are honest and have cool stories. The only time I got scammed was when I didn't meet them. When you're on the cusp of halfway decent human being and jerk, the anonymity and disconnection can actually facilitate scamming.
Of course, losing money is just a concept compared to very real road burns, so the balance of "the worst that can happen" can make face-to-face trades, and I understand why so many people here wouldn't want to put themselves in practical potential physical danger versus mere risk of getting scammed. I live the luckiest statistics, though, so... hence my bias.
This isn't, in my opinion, a problem with face-to-face meetups.
The only problem in this entire scenario was that this Christopher Alexis is a selfish, privileged, entitled douche bag and a bully. With cowardly accomplices in his life of crime and all of them I've got too much vitriol and not enough vocabulary. The victim was looking for an hones trade, and was only fifteen. What they did was not okay.
bsthebenster
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Man. All over a PS3. That's ridiculous.