So, a TGP longtime member gets scammed for $1650...
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Spaced Out Ace
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I'm sorry, but give me a good reason why you would ignore the warning that FF means your money is not protected and should only be used for family and friends, so that you can save $50. If $50 is what it takes to protect $1650, then I'm going to need a great reason why you wouldn't spend the $50. It sucks that he lost his wad, but hopefully he'll learn his lesson.
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norminal
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Yeah, it totally went "over my head." Lmao
fetishfrog
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PayPal offers buyer protection for a small fee. Seems silly not to use it.
Take your chances and accept the results. No whining.
Take your chances and accept the results. No whining.
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There’s now a second thread over there about another guy getting scammed the same way.
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Misery loves company
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Sorry I don't see how it's the moderators responsibility to police every transaction. That's ridiculous. We're all adults, and we all know the rules about paypal, and if you don't, you should probability read them. If you somehow think sending $1700 to a stranger with no recourse is a good idea then I don't know what to tell you.
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Totally agree with that. That site is a pure shit show though.
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No disrespect intended, bc I'm new here, and I've been on there for a while, but there is the good and bad on both sites. I mean, this posting itself would never have made it through the mods, with all its aggression and insults. So they're just different. Like the world, there are good and bad people everywhere.
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Great first post, so which LARP Page mod is this?
Anyways, this issue is sooo much bigger than just another snookered TGP "member", too stupid to know not to trust PayPal FF...
Oh, did I mention the admin/owners deleted the thread & all evidence the *crime* happened, just like they always do?
The whole site's data was hacked en total (and perhaps several of the other 11 muso forums owned by Enthused Digital), including *EVERYONE'S* user name, password, email et al. stolen, then obviously sold on the dark web.
As a former eBiz owner I can't tell you how full retard it is for admin/mods/owners to ignore such a debacle, not inform & force "members" to secure their accounts
Such an I Don't Give A $hit attitude has led to multiple accounts, including dormant longtime "members", being usurped & pilfered to ripoff dozens (perhaps hundreds) of unsuspecting prey in TGP's Emporiums ~ And this also includes trades & other forms of payment (all felonies).
Did you know it's possible also to create bogus PayPal accounts?
The whole disaster could have been (still could be) halted by any competent website admin to root out the scumbags through SEVERAL easy to apply methods...
But no, let's victim shame, sing Cumbayá & pretend that every thing is honky dory, totally ignoring that the site is infested with criminal sock puppets
On the topic of mods: The biases are clear, the laziness is transparent, but to be fair they have also been overwhelmed with mean spirited savages in the last decade, a$$hats whose lives' purpose is an *obsession* to constantly spam TGP with thinly veiled troll threads and/or posts that completely *disrupt* the site from any semblance of normal, rational & reasonable "community".
EDIT: I'm done (YCFS).
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Honestly, they really need to add a few more moderators to help split the load. That site has grown huge, and I don't doubt that the guys they have are often overwhelmed, especially with the frequency at which the snowflakes mash on the report button in an attempt to silence those they don't like.
I was a moderator on the Les Paul Forum from 1999-2002, and there were five of us on a site considerably smaller, plus three administrators.
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The point that's getting lost here is that he thought he knew the guy, that it was a longtime member he'd done business with before, but the account had been hacked/taken over and it wasn't the same person. Yes, always using F+F is the safer/failsafe option, but sending money to a "random stranger on the internet" isn't really an accurate description of this, from what I've read, although it does sound more dramatic and make for more pleasurable judging of others.
As for the second part of of your statement, you don't know about his life or level of ease/entitlement whatsoever. What a strange add-on to throw in, based on nothing.
I don't even know what 'LARP' is and frankly, what ever semblance of truth is lost on me at the use of 'retard'. You clearly have a lot of anger at tgp. All I know is, the biggest sites in the world get hacked, ones that are using the assumably highest level of security. It's not like tgp is the only place to have its user names stolen. Regardless, I prefer not to be falsely accused of anything but having a valid perspective. You might want to work on your delivery.Great first post, so which LARP Page mod is this?
Anyways, this issue is sooo much bigger than just another snookered TGP "member", too stupid to know not to trust PayPal FF...
Oh, did I mention the admin/owners deleted the thread & all evidence the *crime* happened, just like they always do?
The whole site's data was hacked en total (and perhaps several of the other 11 muso forums owned by Enthused Digital), including *EVERYONE'S* user name, password, email et al. stolen, then obviously sold on the dark web.
As a former eBiz owner I can't tell you how full retard it is for admin/mods/owners to ignore such a debacle, not inform & force "members" to secure their accounts
Such an I Don't Give A $hit attitude has led to multiple accounts, including dormant longtime "members", being usurped & pilfered to ripoff dozens (perhaps hundreds) of unsuspecting prey in TGP's Emporiums ~ And this also includes trades & other forms of payment (all felonies).
Did you know it's possible also to create bogus PayPal accounts?
The whole disaster could have been (still could be) halted by any competent website admin to root out the scumbags through SEVERAL easy to apply methods...
But no, let's victim shame, sing Cumbayá & pretend that every thing is honky dory, totally ignoring that the site is infested with criminal sock puppets
On the topic of mods: The biases are clear, the laziness is transparent, but to be fair they have also been overwhelmed with mean spirited savages in the last decade, a$$hats whose lives' purpose is an *obsession* to constantly spam TGP with thinly veiled troll threads and/or posts that completely *disrupt* the site from any semblance of normal, rational & reasonable "community".
EDIT: I'm done (YCFS).
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