Scammed on BST...be careful with AUSTIN316

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by mettoy66

I am a bit leary as many sellers on here only want F&F or want to charge 3% to have the transactions go through as goods. I for one would like if the whole price to do a transaction was all in one. Even a known seller can have a package go missing or turn deadbeat!

I don't have a problem with this as long as it's clear. If a seller says I want to net $1,000 on this card, so it's 1,030 paypal goods, that's fine. Insisting something is paid for by check or paypal ff is a red flag for me.

[RelicSports]

I have used the BST for numerous purchases and sales and hadn't had an issue until this. I don't think it will keep me from making future deals, but I do think it will all have to be via paypal to "protect." In retrospect, I shouldn't have done the check as Tony had asked for.

[Bocabirdman]

BST is a fantastic place for friends to Buy, Sell, and Trade with each other. Over the last few years, I have bought and sold hundreds of cards/lots of cards with nary a member-caused snafu. (I have run into the rare Postal glitch as you would anywhere.) PayPal FRIENDS and Family is designed for such a place. If you do not know a person as a friend or, at the very least, by reputation, you are opening yourself up to problems. Truthfully though, I have not had any and I have dealt with dozens of board members , some dozens of times. I have been upgrading my T206 pile to slabs and passing my raw cards on to other collectors. I also have thinned the herd by moving literally 12,000 Topps/Bowman a couple years ago and various other Pre-War piles earlier this year. I am presently moving a pile of T212 Obak slabs.

There is NO BETTER PLACE to reach other collectors and no better group of collectors anywhere else on the web. PERIOD

[Stetson_1883]

I would just like to add that Im a good guy!