deuce42
Well-known member
Gday
I have read at least two threads now in the black market that have emanated from people that have paid money to a seller but not heard anything back. It fills me with disdain and leaves me with a very empty feeling. Its a feeling of sadness for those who pay money in genuine good faith and now find that their only remedy is to post threads trying to illicit responses from other members whom may be able to advise of the seller's whereabouts or of their previous transaction experience.
The majority of people here in my humble experience are really great and totally committed to diy electronics. As with any internet marketplace, a buyer always takes a risk when buying online from an unknown person - and - there will always be a small element of rip off whenever you have lots of trades. I accept that every once in a while one of the trades will be a scam by the sheer law of probability, but I realised that this still ads little comfort to the buyer who's just been ripped off.
It made me wonder what the rest of us could do for the buyer thats just been scammed? Probably not a great deal in reality I guess. I then wondered how a buyer ever ends up being re-compensated and if there was anything I could do. Clearly I don't have the money to pay everyone for the amount of money they been squeezed from someone else. But I then started to wonder about the donations that are often made to prodigy, sometimes made as a % of sales from a seller. Whilst I am really grateful to prodigy for this forum and am happy for a PCB seller or similar to charge a few bills extra to donate something to prodigy, I wondered whether something similar could be done for ripp off victims here. Kind of like a donation fund for black market scam victims.
Perhaps I am very naive and idealistic. In fact I may be the only person on this board that cares about this issue, but I feel like discussing it here if only for the sake of discussion and because I want to express my feelings on this issue. It may well not be practical or realisitic and more importantly it may really not be wanted by this group but its something I wanted to say.
Thanks and peace out
I have read at least two threads now in the black market that have emanated from people that have paid money to a seller but not heard anything back. It fills me with disdain and leaves me with a very empty feeling. Its a feeling of sadness for those who pay money in genuine good faith and now find that their only remedy is to post threads trying to illicit responses from other members whom may be able to advise of the seller's whereabouts or of their previous transaction experience.
The majority of people here in my humble experience are really great and totally committed to diy electronics. As with any internet marketplace, a buyer always takes a risk when buying online from an unknown person - and - there will always be a small element of rip off whenever you have lots of trades. I accept that every once in a while one of the trades will be a scam by the sheer law of probability, but I realised that this still ads little comfort to the buyer who's just been ripped off.
It made me wonder what the rest of us could do for the buyer thats just been scammed? Probably not a great deal in reality I guess. I then wondered how a buyer ever ends up being re-compensated and if there was anything I could do. Clearly I don't have the money to pay everyone for the amount of money they been squeezed from someone else. But I then started to wonder about the donations that are often made to prodigy, sometimes made as a % of sales from a seller. Whilst I am really grateful to prodigy for this forum and am happy for a PCB seller or similar to charge a few bills extra to donate something to prodigy, I wondered whether something similar could be done for ripp off victims here. Kind of like a donation fund for black market scam victims.
Perhaps I am very naive and idealistic. In fact I may be the only person on this board that cares about this issue, but I feel like discussing it here if only for the sake of discussion and because I want to express my feelings on this issue. It may well not be practical or realisitic and more importantly it may really not be wanted by this group but its something I wanted to say.
Thanks and peace out