I. FAQ
Questions List
1. Will this guarantee that it is safe to use these merchants?
2. Who are you? And why should I trust you?
3. What is Peer-to-Peer trading?
4. What is Merchant-To-Peer trading?
Questions and Answers
1. Will this guarantee that it is safe to use these merchants?
No, We have compiled our database by user feedback. We can only relay what we have heard is a safe and trusting merchant.
2. Who are you? And why should I trust you?
I am Hessinger, A Innerspace forum community member and botter of World of Warcraft. I only wish to prevent others from being scammed by these fraud and untrusting merchants.
3. What is Peer-to-Peer trading?
Peer-to-Peer trading or also known as gamer to gamer trading. There are places where you can sell or buy game currencies or accounts directly to others instead of using a middle man for the trade. There is a small fee commission fees for some of the peer-to-peer websites. Though your chances of getting suspended/banned are greatly reduced if 100% entirely safe.
4. What is Merchant-To-Peer trading?
Merchant-To-Peer trading is when a middle man is used to organize or resell in-game currencies or accounts.
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II. Scam Prevention Guide
Paypal Service
TrustWho Identity Verification service
Knowing who your dealing with is one of the most important key factors in business today. If you don’t know anything about whom your dealing with it is very easy to get burned. Not to mention it’s going to happen multiple times if you don’t learn better business practices.
So in a virtual world, with millions of people using it, how the hell are you going to know who is honest and who is dishonest? Well that is nearly impossible, to be 100% certain on. However, we can take precautions for verifying people’s honesty and trust.
Many transactions are made every day using Paypal. Paypal has provided you with some of the tools to verify that Joe is really Joe. This is the first step to verifying a person or merchant is not a scammer.
If you are a seller, you will find that almost every scam artist uses someone else’s identity to make their purchases. If you get a payment, the first thing you should do is call the person that is purchasing the item from you. Use the number listed on Paypal not the number the person has given you. If you can not contact the owner of the Paypal account, then you should refund the money. If the person does not know what you are even talking about, obviously the person that made the purchase is not who they say they are. You will find this step will eliminate probably 75% of the scammers already trying to purchase or sell goods to you.
You should never give anyone the goods they have purchased unless you can verify them to be who they say they are.
Now time to eliminate another 22 to 24% of the original amount. A little over one year ago, TrustWho started a verification service to identify people for being trusted business people. Purchasing a 5 dollar verification tab, will allow you access a fraud list of people, and allow you to be verified by several businesses and other users as being a trust worthy person. Now, you shouldn’t take TrustWho verifications alone. Continue to do phone verifications, and take the information TrustWho provides and compare that to the ownership of the Paypal account. If it matches, then your good to go, if it doesn’t then your probably about to get scammed.
Now you’re down to 0 to 3% of scammers left. There isn’t much we can do about these few individuals left. These people appear to be average every day people that might possibly take advantage of the system 1 or 2 times. These types of people are hard to catch because of their inconsistency to commit crimes. I hope you can take some of this into thought and help prevent yourself from being scammed.
In the case you do get scammed. Don’t let it bring you down. I had many people scam me when I first started selling gold and accounts. I then learned better business practices. This is not going to happen over night. When you do get scammed, learn from your mistakes. That is the key to being successful. You should also notify others that you had been scammed, and give them as much information as possible to identify these people the next time they try their ways on others.
I hope you enjoyed this guide, sorry that I did not use correct English for the entire piece. English is a second language to me.
- Hessinger
Paypal Service
TrustWho Identity Verification service