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With respect to buyer parts from other users I normally don't have any issues because I check to make sure they have a relatively long trade history or at the very least a long an active participation with the club. However a particular part has come up which I would like but the seller has been a 'lurker' since 2008. What options do I have to ensure a clear transaction? As far as I have found Pay Pal can only give me protection if the sale is through EBay.

https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb...;locale.x=en_US

Some measures/alternatives:

-Go through eBay, it's not hard to set up an account

-Speak to person over the phone, get some verification / suss it out better

-Pay with cash on delivery

-Google their phone number / e-mail address / username to see what they've been up to on other forums with regards to previous trading etc.

-Pick an amount of money you wouldn't care about losing to a scammer over the internet...don't buy anything of value above this figure

-Go see the part / person in person...or if long distance, ask another member on the forum who lives nearby to check out the part for you (offer them commission etc.)

I've found the last one to be most useful.

I'd add to that list, if your going through ebay or similar use paypal if possible. PayPal offers protection, for example I bought a $120 amplifier, sent the money, no item received, it took 2 weeks but I got a full refund of my money.

Its not a perfect system but they do find in favor of the buyer 90% of the time.

Although all of birds tips sound good to me :(

Go and pick it up in person or have someone else you "trust" do it for you.

I have so far traveled to blue mountains and proabably tassie in next couple of weeks looking at turbo kits...as handing over 2k plus for no guarantee is of concern.

I also had someone look at something for me in Darwin, however here I got a little stooged...the guy told me it was shagged, so I wouldnt buy it, then bought it himself. LOL

There should be a service that facilitates interstate sales and checks products for condition then carries out financial transactions and organizes secure postage for us. This would certainly weed out the dodgy ppl, but I guess inturn increase prices...which defeats the reason for the 2nd hand trade anyway. haha

My tip, if you dont trust it, dont do it.

The problem with the pay pal protection is that you only get your money back if they have money in there account, once you have deposited the money into there account it only tales 3-5 days for him to have the money transferred into his account, once thats done you have no protection at all, its not hard to string the buyer out for a couple of days then say you sent it and it should be there in a few days, by the time the few days are up your money has gone and so have they.

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