I just saw the hats G/B issue, and this got me thinking, the administration could be requiring a verified address, or some other information about the person to run the G/B to prevent fraud on the site.

I'm currently running a G/B and I collected ~us$3,000.00 I know noone wiill be rich with this money, but some people are willing to lose their respect and dignity for this amount. I understand that a tighter security might also make things harder for some nice folks that can get good deals on certain part, but I think is a price I'm willing to pay if as a result we don't have more scams affecting us.

Haha.. im in your group buy, and after i sent the money i didnt the math in my head... ~25 * 170 USD... haha.. However, the fact you were paid through paypal re-assured me that my cash was ok, and your were a platinum account or something like that. And if this isint too hard to implement, i'd agree.

anyone can upgrade a paypal account to platinum, that just says that you can accept payments from a credit card.

oh... well that sucks Still, i know that filing a complaint with paypal might get cash back in a scam.

I'm on the GB too, no offense but it crossed my mind that this could be a scam. I think Paypal helps alot, but it's still no gaurantee. Maybe if we had a website account that all GB's go through. Ya know like we paypal to the 6gc account then Coomer or the person in charge of the GB could send the money to the company we are dealing with. That way there is a clear record of the money tranfers.

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wow good to know !

I don't think Coomer needs to be directly involve on the G/B, that's just gonna give him more stuff to do, as far as I know he's very busy already, when we join a G/B is done at our own risk, but what I'm thinking is since we all need approval from the administration in order to run a G/B they could be asking more personal information about the person running the G/B like Address, Home phone number stuff like that.

This post has been edited by Culpable04: Oct 12, 2006 - 7:32 AM

this hat GB isnt the 1st time that people have been scammed. i remember the VIS vented "rare" skirts (now Boomer skirts), GB where many people were screwed out of 190 dollars or so.