r/canadaguns • u/Financial-Big-7814 • 21d ago
Misc Dealing with gunpost
When buying or selling something on gunpost and someone responds to your ad with a profile but has either no reviews or recently made the account less then a week, month or six months? Do you even respond ? What's the cut off? Or offered you a deposit but can't pick it up for a month? (I have had this also now) Just say screw it and decide to keep it instead lol?
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u/edyuster 21d ago
Never take deposits, have them pay in full and they take it now or leave it.
If you're doing EMT, just be careful a lot of people try to scam in classifieds. Instead of sending you money that you can deposit, they send you a money request which means you're paying them.
The other precaution I hear people do is turn off auto deposit for EMT and make sure to get the password from them and accept the payment manually. Usually EMT are irreversible, but I seen a few stories where others have said banks have reversed the transfer because the sender claimed it was sent to the wrong person or wrong amount.