Is buying a laptop via Money Order secure?
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je_saist,
Posted on: 2010-02-16 15:41 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
personally... I wouldn't.
However, if you are buying from auction site / private seller, that is a risk you would be taking.
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NO!| Is buying a laptop via Money Order secure? |
Is this seller trustworthy? I don't know, but the site makes him/her appear to be.
Will you get a laptop if you send him/her money? Possible/Maybe/I don't know.
Would I do it? Probably not.
My suggestion, if you are THAT worried about it:
See if the seller will consider a MoneyGram® or Western Union® instead, just to make it a little more secure and personal (and to have more info about your seller in case it goes sour).
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Just don't bother. Buy your laptop somewhere else.
What do you mean by "secure"? If you're the buyer, you have to accept the fact that once they cash the money order you don't have any recourse like you do with a credit card. Other than that, it's secure. It's not like a money order is linked to any account where they can fraudulently withdraw more.
Personally I wouldn't deal with a seller that didn't have some type of more regular payment system set up, even Paypal.
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Never buy goods with Money Orders. If something goes wrong, there is nothing you can do to get it back short of a lawsuit. A Money Order is essentially cash. Scammers know this, and if anyone insists on Money Orders, take your business elsewhere. Do not Western Union or Moneygram it either, that's the exact same thing. (In fact, they literally print out a money order at the receiving station and cash it on-site)|
Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm
This is from an individual with a high heatware rating... http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=54555 which is some sort of rating for hardware sellers I think.
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Incidentally, "Heatware" is not sponsored by any of the sites it pretends it is, they just have clickthru advertising, and, furthermore, I can pick any high rated profile at random and SAY that's me. Use your head, stick to reputable sellers and services, and information aobut the reliability of a seller form a site like that should be treated as exactly what it is: irrelevant. This "heatware" site seems to be owned by Dotster, well known for cybersquatting and stealing domain names within hours after they expire.
If you're not doing a Paypal/Credit Card transaction or going through a service like Ebay or Amazon, you can be scammed, easily, with absolutely no recourse. There is no reason to use any other method.
To make it clearer, you are looking at trusting a "high rating" some unknown person has on a site owned by these people http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032_3-6079567.html
This is from an individual with a high heatware rating... http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=54555 which is some sort of rating for hardware sellers I think.