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Good point!
"In the open" rather than via PM?
But I was trying to illustrate how even that wouldn't necessarily help: if they want something badly enough, sometimes people ignore even the obvious warning signs.
Scilly.Suffolk-
I can't really protect people from themselves :)
But at the moment I'm prohibiting them from using a system that does protect them from themselves.
What I am thinking is that advertising on eBay could be permitted, so long as the advert made here offered something in addition to the eBay advert... i.e. cheaper price for direct sale, more info, different terms, etc.
To figure out how to not exclude a sales mechanism that actually goes some way to reduce fraud and scams. Most of the scams on here would've been trivially blocked by eBay and PayPal being enforced.
I like the simplicity no here of it simply being "stuff for sale here isn't for sale anywhere, all adverts are active and maintained"... but we do virtually nothing about what fraud and scams do occur, except to ban people, but that's useless as people can just use a different email and sign up again.
Velocio
Deleting email addresses would make paying via paypal on here more difficult