Am I getting scammed?

[Abaaba]

I am no expert on this as I haev only ever bought a single bike but it was VIA Facebook market place......

to re-assure the seller, I had a cash with a receipt from the bank and also offered the option for bacs transfer (it was all done in front of his house, no round-the-corner deal shenanigans)

He opted for a bank transfer, keys handed after the money hit his bank account, after bank fraud detection stopped it and spent an hour calling the bank to release the fund so if he is offering a transfer, do it that way and ONLY hand in keys after money is in your account.

[Tierbirdy]

Good advice, thankfully didnt have that issue.

Todays the day, money is in my account all cleared, he paid it in 3 parts, £500 deposit a week ago, £3k once the movers confirmed a booking to collect it a few days ago, and the rest today as the bike mover company is picking it up this afternoon.

Guess Ill find out in the next few days if I've been scammed or this was all legit albeit an unusual way of selling it. The fact he put £3500 in my account a few days ago without any kind of assurance makes me feel happy this is legit. Or I could be naively desperate to sell and fallen into a very expensive hard life lesson.


inb4 its all charged back in a few days.

[blurredman]

Quick, do several smaller transfers to different banks and societies!
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[dave001]

it could well be genuine but as others have said transffers can offten be done from a stollen account and reversed

id only ever do cash prefer it anyway they dint look two pleasd at the yam dealler when i pulled out 12 grand in 20`s to pay for my mt10-sp but i got pleny of coffee while they was counting

[Nobby the Bastard]

Surprised that a dealer would accept that much in cash because of money laudering laws.
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[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Yep, a lot of it's posts strike me as bollocks. Badly taught AI maybe.
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[dave001]

[dave001]

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[Polarbear]

[duhawkz]

[P.]

[Easy-X]

[to v or not to v]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Lord Percy]

[to v or not to v]

[Polarbear]

My local up until 2019 when it changed hands had a cash only policy. I asked the landlord why he had it when even just when I was in there I'd seen a good number of people leave because he wouldn't take card and they had no cash. He said that on single pint transactions if it was paid by card depending on the drink he would either lose pennies or make pennies and he would have to put his prices up drastically to cover the costs.

When the new people came in, after the pub was revamped and they opened with card payents prices were 50p ish more a drink. Whether that was soley due to card costs I have no idea but it did sort of back up the old landlords comments.

Obviously now, since covid, if you dont take cards you are pretty fucked in just about any buisness.
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[Easy-X]

Last pub I went to: contactless payments for the pool table
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[A100man]

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