richard_uk wrote:I....you do need to be careful when buying from unkown members on forums as there are a lot of people out there that will take your money and send you nothing.
Which is why I did that minimal check against his IP and pointed out he has a corporate email account, rather than a free one like with gmail or yahoo or something - as a service to any member who should want to do business with them.... People occasionally contact me out of the blue wanting to sell me something high-end - I drop $15-20+ on doing some checks on them, using
www.intelius.com. A reverse phone lookup and an addrses check is fairly minimal if you are buying, say, a minty solid 18k calc. off a stranger(even if it
is missing its original box)

If their information doesn't jive with what they have given me, I only will do those deals on an "approval" basis. I give them links to my state corporations board and property records, so they can check on ME for
their peace of mind.

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