Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 8 Jul 2022 12:36 pm |
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This is from b0b -
Please do not promote PayPal "Friends and Family" on this site. Besides being a bad idea when dealing with people you don't know (no recourse for fraud), it can get the forum's PayPal account in trouble. We were suspended from withdrawal access for 3 weeks recently on a different issue, and promoting "Friends and Family" payments is definitely against their rules. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 30 Jan 2025 1:58 pm Do Not Use Paypal Friends and Family on this Forum!
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I'm updating this thread to ban the use of Paypal Friends and Family (F&F) on this forum outright. Our primary concern in making an outright ban is that F&F has been used by (probably non-member) criminal scammers, who hack into forum members' accounts, to defraud people. Once someone pays via F&F, they have no recourse, and this sets up a perfect scheme for a scammer.
Read these points carefully:
1. Advertising F&F has been banned for a few years now.
2. It is now also unacceptable to use F&F at all. If you want to use Paypal on this forum, it must be Paypal Goods and Services, and someone will have to pay the fee. We don't care who that is, but F&F is prohibited.
3. If it can be shown that you require F&F in a Marketplace transaction, you will be banned from the forum.
4. If you attempt to purchase something from someone on this forum and they ask for F&F payment, it is our position that you should
a. Assume the seller may be trying to scam you;
b. Withdraw from the transaction;
c. Copy/paste the correspondence with the seller into an email to admin@steelguitarforum.com and give us a link to the Marketplace thread involved.
We will close the thread, ban the user, and that user will have to explain the situation to us in order to be considered for reinstatement. If we reinstate someone and they repeat this mistake, they will be banned for good.
Sorry we have to be so hard-nosed, but we cannot tolerate what has been going on lately.
Just say no to Paypal Friends and Family on this forum. Or else. |
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