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Craggles
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PostPosted: 13:27 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Camera phones combat dodgy dealers? Reply with quote
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3992139.stm

This bit worries me....
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Other tips include paying by banker's draft rather than cash


Great for buyers... not so great for sellers!

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Lone-Wolf
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PostPosted: 16:28 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Re: Camera phones combat dodgy dealers? Reply with quote
Craggles wrote:

Great for buyers... not so great for sellers!


Wotcha.

Why ?
If I have something to sell, I've got no objection to the purchaser taking my photograph.
Should I go to buy something, and the seller doesn't want their photograph taken, then I buy elsewhere. Better to be offended, than ripped off.
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Craggles
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PostPosted: 16:31 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was talking more about the payment in Bankers Draft advice that was also given (a common method of scamming people out of their bike I believe) - I have no problem with having my photo taken either.

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PostPosted: 16:41 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
bankers drafts are no safer than regular cheques and can still be stopped/ cancelld and are still as open to being forged....
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PostPosted: 16:42 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
using camera phones. Always thoughtI'd do that if I was buying a car/bike, good evidence should something happen Smile
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mr.z
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PostPosted: 16:52 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paper money, nothing else, theres no point risking it is there?

If anyone can't pay by the above then they can eithert come back when they can or don't come back at all Middle Finger same goesifthey wanted a test ride i'm affraid, if they don't have the money then how were they planning on buying it?

Sometimes you havedo do or say things that mightmake you unpopular, buti wouldn't let anyone i didn't 100% know wander off with a wad of cash on the promise they will be back after takeing it for a walk :/
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jonboy
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PostPosted: 17:21 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ninja wrote:
bankers drafts are no safer than regular cheques and can still be stopped/ cancelld and are still as open to being forged....


No, they are definitely safer than cheques. Banker's drafts are guaranteed, whereas a cheque doesn't actually clear for about six months (can still be cancellled even after the money has been in your account and spent by you after several months - there was a thread on here about it recently and some publicity about it in the papers as well.
As long as it is not a forged copy, there iare no doubts a bankers draft will clear from the moment you are given it.
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Lone-Wolf
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Craggles wrote:
I was talking more about the payment in Bankers Draft advice that was also given
Craig


Wotcha.

Ah - gotcha. .. Embarassed
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
Who can tell a forged bankers draft from a real one upon casual inspection?
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neon
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PostPosted: 18:44 - 08 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
what a bloody good idea! Thumbs Up
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Ninja
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PostPosted: 16:58 - 09 Nov 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote
who's to say the real owner of the banker's draft wasn't bopped on the head by the person actually gicing it to you? Have you asked for proof of I.D. that the person giving it to you is the person who's bank account it was produced from?.....and therefore cancelled as soon as the original owner comes to again and informs his bank of being bopped on the head....
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