This week at http://gear-vault.com is a Boss MetalZone MT-2. Starts at one penny w/ no reserve!
[*]REFER A FRIEND TO GEAR-VAULT [*]SELL YOUR GEAR AT GEAR-VAULT [*]BUY YOUR GEAR AT GEAR-VAULT [*]THIS IS A COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE FOR MUSICIAN'S- [*]JOIN US =]
Gear-Monkey.com opened a brother site for musicians buying, selling, promoting, and trading gear... exclusively! It's
The Gear Vault
and it's totally free to list your gear, wanted ads, Demo CDs / Band promotions, services, and much more!
It's a safe way to trade your gear! We're committed to trust and safety to prevent internet scams and fraud. We have a thorough trust and safety checkster for buyers and sellers. And offer a verification Icon to sellers for the extra edge. Our focus is combining message board users to one exclusive gear trader site. Trust and safety is our priority!
The plan all started when I was listing gear on eBay. At the end of the final sale, I realized eBay took a significant amount of my cash, not to mention their crazy listing and photo fees. After paying that kind of money, it's impossible to get in touch with a human eBay staff agent when an issue occurs. They'll send out a automated email which is totally insignificant to the problem or issue at hand.
After seeing so many phishing ads on eBay, honest members relentlessly reporting it to the eBay staff, one would assume that eBay would correct that problem a.s.a.p. Not so much. EBay's safety is really sacrificing while the fees are increasing.
That's why I welcome everyone to
The Gear Vault
! It's an exclusive community for musicians and music gear. Did I mention it's free to list and buy? The only charge is a small percentage of the final value sale. If you don't sell your item, you don't pay! Why should anyone take a significant amount of final selling fees anyhow? That's another reason why NOT to deal with eBay and their darn near 4% FVS fee.
The Gear Vault
only charges 1.5% - 2% (depending on the final sale price.) Just enough to cover our expenses in web hosting, software upgrades, and security measures.
We love music and music gear. This is our way to give back to message forum communities all across the world wide web.
What everyone should know about PayPal! Nothing bu
Current mood: aggravated
It all began from a charge back.
Sold an amp for $1100 and (and few other things) that totaled over $1200. All was good and a month went by. Then.....
Suprise!
My account was frozen! -negative- PayPal account. I was hurried to change all my "Buy It Now" online auctions to Money Order or Bank Wire Tranfers only. (so PayPal couldn't screw me out of any more money)
Then BANG!!!!
Faster than I could change my "Buy It Now" online auctions... a 5150 sold for $810 and FBV shortboard sold for $230.
BOOM! The buyers paid via PayPal immedaitly after auctions closed.
Shazzam, PayPal consumed this money and put it directly towards the negative from the charge back.
Well, screw that!! If I don't have payment in my posession, I reserve the right to ship products!
I email the buyers to explain to them of the situation and refunded their money.... then BANG! PayPal took the funds from my Checking account (putting that account in the negative!)
Whoa! So I called my bank and said "Shut'err down, NOW!!!)
Thankfully my bank shut it down. Though I was already in the negative, they saved me from more trama! I filed a claim with my bank to notify them of PayPal's scam! 48-72 hrs later, my money was back and the buyers of the 5150 and FBV shortboard are refunded without delay.
Just to be extra safe, I had those buyers call their credit card to notify them of PayPal's scam as well (Just in case PayPal tried pulling those funds back). As my bank account took the funds back from PayPal and said "no-no", you must'nt touch.
Needless to say paypal DID try to recoup that money back from those buyers credit cards... Thankfully, their credit card company said "NO!" payPal couldn't touch it. Sheww!
Now PayPal charged me back for refunding the buyers of the 5150 and FBV shortboard. + still in the negative from that gear that I sold over a month ago for $1200. = over $2200 in the negative.
Now here's another kicker. I had purchased a Mark IV back in August. That seller kept his funds in his PayPal account (for whatever reason) and PayPal swiped his funds away from him!!! REPEAT: He sold me an MKIV, that deal was done A LONG TIME AGO! And PayPal swiped his money!?!?!
I don't even know if they went back further to seller previous to that August purchase, but I'm sure I'll find out soon!
PayPal has the key to everyones money and will take YOUR hard earn cash without notice!
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MrSandMan's blogs, last updated : August 27, 2009
Gear-Monkey.com opened a brother site for musicians buying, selling, promoting, and trading gear... exclusively! It's
