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People stealin your traded gear?

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Emma_Watson
Posts: 4491 - Karma: 6,797
How would you know that the person you are trading with isn't gonna jip your gear and not send you shit? This is a stupid question because you have their address, but you couldn't call the PoPo on them.. Just a thought..
Jul 31 2010 12:48AM
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414.
Posts: 3819 - Karma: 136
you can always call their mommy.
Jul 31 2010 12:53AM
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schoes
Posts: 1071 - Karma: 141

If they got good feeback then there's no worries but if your the one without the feedback and your trader has it. You'll have no worries either. It's very unlikely they'll screw you

Jul 31 2010 12:55AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
Posts: 2536 - Karma: 763
It's pretty much a trust system because newschoolers isn't the whole world like facebook it's just a certain group of people that you should trust.
Jul 31 2010 1:00AM
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family_vacation
Posts: 6200 - Karma: 7,840
These guys are optimists.

There are also a fair amount of scams on ns. Like 5 months ago, I caught my friend scamming over $1000 of gear off other people. Yeah, it was a big deal so be careful.

For transactions, get this info.
1. Full Name
2. Home Phone
3. Cell Phone
4. Facebook account
5. Parent info if they are young
6. anything else you can think of, you can't be too safe.
Jul 31 2010 1:11AM
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Diamonds
Posts: 4443 - Karma: 1,301
wtf you're friend was scamming people !?!

Has he returned the goods? and was it saucey.....
Jul 31 2010 1:15AM
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family_vacation
Posts: 6200 - Karma: 7,840
Back when themanabove got in a whole lot of trouble. The result was that Style+eeze and I had to clean it all up.

https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/520857/
Jul 31 2010 1:48AM
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Myfirstname.
Posts: 1581 - Karma: 312
Agreed^^^ I don't worry about it as much if someone has a long list of positive feedback (although its always a good idea)

but unless someone is trying to scam you, they should have no problem giving out all of this information.
Jul 31 2010 1:50AM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
that was quite a mess...
Jul 31 2010 3:48AM
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Emma_Watson
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ight cool thanks.
Jul 31 2010 10:59AM
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GratefulDead
Posts: 3554 - Karma: 84
What happened to that kid? When he first joined he told me he really liked the site cause he donated within the first week. I traded and bought from him twice, but then he just randomly started screwing people over... i never really understood that.
Jul 31 2010 11:09AM
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414.
Posts: 3819 - Karma: 136
hows that kid doing these day? also gotta thank you and abe again for helping ha.
Jul 31 2010 12:19PM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
ehh, he's kinda fuckin up.

like, he slangs dro, is getting worse and worse grades, and is just doing dumb shit.

he needs to get his shit together.... lol
and no problemo, i didn't want to see one of my friends get in serious trouble with the law, even if he did mess shit up.

abe and i put so much time into it to keep him out of trouble, and i think we've done everything that we could. if he still makes bad decisions, it's not my fault, he can remind himself how dumb it was to do what he does while he faces his consequences.
Jul 31 2010 2:59PM
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Balto
Posts: 25985 - Karma: 4,404
if im trading with an established member, then i just get some contact info, if im trading with a newb without any feedback, i only ship once i have their item in my hands
Jul 31 2010 3:10PM
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