Weakness In The New For Sale System For Scammers
#1
Posted 10 September 2009 - 07:32 PM
The new for sale system actually helped Navyseal sell his items to multiple people, at the moment its an add on to the forum and not intergrated into the main area.
If he'd been selling using the old system, people would have seen who he was trying to sell to and those people who had already bought and paid for the item would have seen him try and sell the item time and time again.
It allowed him to go about the buisness of scamming and robbing members undetected, no one could see what was happening and thus put an end to it.
Surely this issue needs addressing before it happens again?
#2
Posted 10 September 2009 - 07:46 PM
#3
Posted 10 September 2009 - 07:48 PM
I will bring this up with the other Admin types forthwith.
#4
Posted 10 September 2009 - 07:51 PM
Perhaps get rid of this option but lock it on so that people can comment on listings.
#5
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:22 PM
You can enable comments on the listing,.. there is an option at the bottom of the page to tick a box before you post the Ad.
Perhaps get rid of this option but lock it on so that people can comment on listings.
yeh that sounds like a pretty good compromise to stop anything like this happening again.
#6
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:29 PM
Edited by GreaseMonkey, 10 September 2009 - 08:29 PM.
#7
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:34 PM
#8
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:35 PM
#9
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:36 PM
#10
Posted 10 September 2009 - 08:46 PM
Also with the old one, people used to be much more active, scanning it every so often so this meant topics with hot items were active and kept at the top with all the new postings where as with the new not as many as before browse and comment.
Edited by GreaseMonkey, 10 September 2009 - 08:49 PM.
#11
Posted 10 September 2009 - 10:07 PM
You can enable comments on the listing,.. there is an option at the bottom of the page to tick a box before you post the Ad.
Perhaps get rid of this option but lock it on so that people can comment on listings.
yeh that sounds like a pretty good compromise to stop anything like this happening again.
Think about it, it wouldn't have stopped a thing.
At the mo when you make a comment on a for sale thread, it stays there, it doesn't get bumped to the top of the list.
Unless you actually look at the ad you don't know its there.
Theres nothing to flag up that the ad has been commented up or updated.
The old system would have shown this con/scam up in an instant.
#12
Posted 10 September 2009 - 10:11 PM
this is putting me off putting stuff up for sale in the classifieds now.
it does need to be sorted
#13
Posted 10 September 2009 - 10:13 PM
i agree with all points raised
personally i dont like the new section at all:(
#14
Posted 10 September 2009 - 10:15 PM
Also i think we need a feedback system for anyone selling on the forum, maybe on our profiles so people can leave good and bad feedback before they think about buying of us.
Edited by cookie4343, 10 September 2009 - 10:20 PM.
#15
Posted 10 September 2009 - 10:17 PM
It's putting me of buying anythink in the classified section, over 1200 quid scamed.hmmm good point
this is putting me off putting stuff up for sale in the classifieds now.
it does need to be sorted
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