In my opinion one of the shortcomings of Amazon Marketplace is that when a customer asks a question an email is sent to your personal email address.
You reply, then the potential customer / scam has your contact details and can then put a scam in place to `mirror' Amazon Marketplace correspondence.Top five tips - from my point of view - first time sellers...
Be careful when replying to email questions as you are giving direct access info to an unknown source.
Do not get caught up in the momentum of your first time sale. Pause / think. Does anything look odd in correspondence? / Read Amazon info as it will be quoted back to your face.
Esure you check / make sure that the money transaction is in your account on the Amazon site before posting. Take a screen shot of account / funds if in doubt should you have disagreement with Amazon later.
Only deal with a sale to UK mainland. Never overseas (and especially never never NIGERIA - sorry to the honest souls of that country)
If in doubt ask Amazon direct and only via their web site.
Giving email address from individuals with questions is the flaw with Amazon Marketplace. Ebay does not allow this. This flaw helps spam / scammers.
I would love to know how much is being scammed each week. In my opinion Amazon close their eyes to this issue.
I only lost £120 of goods which was probably my fault for not reading the detail emails from Amazon. Hassle Amazon if they do not respond.
Finally I think that Amazon should have very clear `do's and don'ts' for first time buyers which should be at the top of any correspondence.
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TheHairyGodmother 06.10.2009 17:52
nice review
DrDavid 28.06.2009 13:49
Never had a problem buying from Amazon.co.uk. Excellent service.
Just be more alert if you are a buyer on Marketplace and especially if first time seller.
jwl89 28.06.2009 13:37
thanks i havent yet bought anything on amazon, but im planning to so thanks for the heads up.
Advantages: Users can leave product reviews, variety of products, great price Disadvantages: Like all companies service is not all great but I haven't had a problems yet
Pirate_Hunter 25.07.2008 (25.07.2008)
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