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Paul in Mich
04-10-2005 07:28:40
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Re: oversea buyers and people who complain in reply to Common Sense, 04-09-2005 22:33:19
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I wont be redundant and rewrite my reply to jmeyer in his post below. Anyone can go there and read it for him or herself. What you say is right on, and why some folks think that the internet is above and beyond conventional buying and selling practices is beyond me. One thing everyone should realize is that what is happening on the internet is happening so fast that our legislators cannot possibly react fast enough to pass laws fast enough to keep up with the latest scheme or scam. They are also reluctant to over legislate to the point as to render the internet impotent and irelevant in the world of commerce. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all of us who use the internet to either buy or sell to learn all we can about the nature of the beast, and protect ourselves accordingly. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that if one leaves his E.Mail address out there for everyone and his brother to see, that he runs the risk of being spammed, or having unwanted E.Mail delivered. Is that any different than your insurance company or credit card company selling or sharing your name or credit info with someone else for profit? Indeed not. My mail box, out by the road, is full of junk mail on a daily basis, and I have to be carefull when sorting it out that I don"t inadvertently throw out the light bill with the solicitation for $1.00 per month life insurance, or the pizza coupons I will never use. Somehow it is my responsibility to do the sorting, and not the Postmaster or the mail deliverer. When E.Bay says, upon our initial membership application, that they will NEVER, EVER ask us, in a query, for our password or bank account number, we should then take it as gospel and when we do see such phisching expeditions, realixe someone is trying to scam us. At that point all we have to do is forward the text or simply ask eBay if this query is legitimate, and they will reply that it is not. The same goes with AKMED and his band of business tycoons. We do not have to do business with these people, and is we are remotely tempted, then it means we havent done our homework, and are too greedy or desperate ourselves, that we could fall for such nonsense. Your posting ID is "common sense", and that should be the driving force of all of us. We"re not kids anymore, and we dont need someone to hold our collective hands to make sure we dont do something stupid while conducting business. If we cant do business without doing something stupid, then we shouldnt be in business in the first place. If we want something so badly that we cant make an intellegent buying decission, then perhaps we shouldnt be out there buying stuff we dont know how to discern whether we are being scammed or not. Doing business, either as a seller or as a buyer requires a certain degree of common sense. While it is a law that we need liability insurance on our vehicles before we take them on the road, it doesnt take law enforcement to make us realize the reason why. If we dont understand it, then we really have no business on the highway to begin with. It is the same for doing business. If we dont understand why we do or don"t do some things for our own good, such as make sure the check is good, or buying sight unseen and expecting more, then we have no business in the arena. Gosh, I hope the whole world don"t percieve us as a bunch of ignorant farmers, and if they do, then shouldnt we take control ourselves and change that perception? If we leave it to everyone else, to provide the common sense and safeguards, then the perception wont change, as that proves we cant think for ourselves. The internet has a lot of built in safety devices, we simply need to educate ourselves and utilize them, instead of assuming that its someone elses balliwick.
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