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<p>[QUOTE="umtrr-author, post: 159419, member: 5719"]Also for sellers:</p><p>- If you accept personal checks at all (many do not), require a certain amount of feedback first.</p><p>- Have new buyers or low feedback buyers e-mail you first before placing a bid.</p><p>- Include in the disclaimer that you have the right to cancel bids from people with negative or no feedback. </p><p><br /></p><p>For buyers:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Look at a seller's feedback and what the comments were. A single negative doesn't mean a bad seller, understand what the circumstances were; the seller could have just run into an Eternally Unsatisfied buyer. </p><p><br /></p><p>- If it doesn't have reasonably sized in focus photos of both obverse and reverse, keep shopping.</p><p><br /></p><p>- If the terms and conditions include multilple colors, multiple fonts or multiple paragraphs, or make you think that the buyer thinks <b>he's</b> the customer, keep shopping.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Be <b>very</b> wary of items sold by drop-off shops. The S+H usually starts at outrageous and goes up from there; and many "have systems that do not allow them to combine shipping." Well, I have a system that doesn't allow me to bid on items from such buyers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="umtrr-author, post: 159419, member: 5719"]Also for sellers: - If you accept personal checks at all (many do not), require a certain amount of feedback first. - Have new buyers or low feedback buyers e-mail you first before placing a bid. - Include in the disclaimer that you have the right to cancel bids from people with negative or no feedback. For buyers: - Look at a seller's feedback and what the comments were. A single negative doesn't mean a bad seller, understand what the circumstances were; the seller could have just run into an Eternally Unsatisfied buyer. - If it doesn't have reasonably sized in focus photos of both obverse and reverse, keep shopping. - If the terms and conditions include multilple colors, multiple fonts or multiple paragraphs, or make you think that the buyer thinks [b]he's[/b] the customer, keep shopping. - Be [b]very[/b] wary of items sold by drop-off shops. The S+H usually starts at outrageous and goes up from there; and many "have systems that do not allow them to combine shipping." Well, I have a system that doesn't allow me to bid on items from such buyers.[/QUOTE]
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