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robertybob
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Saw some tickets for a festival on Gumtree that I wanted.
Responded to seller that I wanted to purchase his tickets. Seller tells me that I can collect and pay cash or bank transfer and he will send the tickets.
I asked him to email picture of tickets before I bank transferred.
That was on Monday night. Sent the bank transfer and seller said he would e-mail me when he posted in the morning.
No e-mails or replies to the 3 e-mails I have sent him since and no sign of the tickets.
Only information I have for the sellers is his e-mail, Name and bank account info from the bank transfer.
Am I screwed?
Responded to seller that I wanted to purchase his tickets. Seller tells me that I can collect and pay cash or bank transfer and he will send the tickets.
I asked him to email picture of tickets before I bank transferred.
That was on Monday night. Sent the bank transfer and seller said he would e-mail me when he posted in the morning.
No e-mails or replies to the 3 e-mails I have sent him since and no sign of the tickets.
Only information I have for the sellers is his e-mail, Name and bank account info from the bank transfer.
Am I screwed?
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Have you contacted your bank to see if the BACS has completed?You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0
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If the money has already gone through, then you are screwed.
Bank transfer + tickets = well known scam.
By all means report it to the police, but not easy when you don't have many details, so you may end up putting this down to experience!Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')
No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)0 -
unholyangel wrote: »Have you contacted your bank to see if the BACS has completed?
BACS has already completed unfortunately
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gumtree, bank transfer, piccies of tickets you can get off google images...how can it possibly be a scam?Target Savings by end 2009: 20,000
current savings: 20,500 (target hit yippee!)
Debts: 8000 (student loan so doesnt count)
new target savings by Feb 2010: 30,0000 -
Normally scammers don't offer 'cash on collection' payment terms....."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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If the money has already gone through, then you are screwed.
Bank transfer + tickets = well known scam.
By all means report it to the police, but not easy when you don't have many details, so you may end up putting this down to experience!
The receiving bank will have the account holder's details.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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