an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
#scam-watch 2025-06-06
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- careful_claims — coming back to this is it worth reporting or does nothing happen 09:22
- careful_claims — do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it 09:23
- careful_claims — read it character by character 10:02
- freeze_thaw — genuine question is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam 10:12
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
thats the pattern
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case, for what its worth
thats retail not fraud
coming back to this is it worth reporting or does nothing happen
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
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is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
screenshot it
advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
read it character by character
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a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
genuine question is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
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slightly off topic but i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
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