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How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)

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Re: How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)

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The last of those is at least a value-added service for some people.

I don't really see it as a scam: * I see an ad that says "do you want to buy this item for this price?" * If I like the price, I can buy the item. I got what was promised. The fact that maybe I could have bought the same item elsewhere for less doesn't make it a scam. Lots of things are offered at different prices in different places at the same time. That's not a scam.

I think you were replying to my original comment.

It's not a capital 'S' scam in a legal sense, but it's a scam in that they are playing a trick on you by jacking the price way up and relying on your ignorance to make the sale at an inflated price.

If we consider a door-to-door salesman who is selling (say) basic Android phones in retirement communities where hypothetically some folks have never used a smartphone, they might get away with selling a $100 basic phone for $1000. That's not illegal, but it surely is a scam in the ethical sense.

Re: How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)

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I like to think I'm pretty scam-savvy, but it only takes a moment of the holes in the swiss cheese aligning. I saw a recreation of a movie prop that looked like a good gift idea for a friend and made an impulse purchase. Something was nagging at the back of my head and a couple of minutes later I had a sinking feeling that it might be a scam -- sure enough, a little research showed that the product photos were stolen…

Paypal's CEO should read this.

I got my account limited because they mistook my birthday date. When the guy on support told me the problem was that I was still underage and I told them that, they just deleted all messages, haha.

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