Buying off Ebay?

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Cheepo

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Aren't you concerned about giving the seller your home address? Most people stack at least some of their silver at home. Same goes with trades right here. What's your opinion?
 
That's always a little bit of a concern but it's no different than if you were to buy product from a brick&mortar bullion dealer....do you really think the workers there are of necessarily higher ethical caliber??? Ha...that's a riot!





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I think there is a certain amount of risk involved but with everything just use your head. Only buy from trusted established ebay sellers with high ratings. Same goes with purchasing from members on this forum. On Ebay the sellers are taking equal risk because you can see what they have lsited and probably where it is stored.
 
Lol, the bank and the government also have your address.

Shouldn't you be worried as well?
 
Plus you aren't likely to make huge purchases of eBay and frankly your silver isn't hugely more valuable than that expensive camera or watch you might buy of ebay without a second thought. Plus most people you buy of are likely to be geographically quite distant or you would arrange to meet f2f so they would have to be part of some organised national break in gang to do that.

Certainly if you buy a lot you should be careful but it would get around pretty quickly if there was a series of targeted PM thefts.

Be alert, not alarmed.
 
This is basically a question which thief do you fear most, the privileged (read: government) or the unprivileged (private) one :P
Maybe a general attitude is the best midway: don't give away more info than needed, in general. There are people that put their real name everywhere, or just the same fake name everywhere. I use for every forum a different name. I also write in different ways. I avoid typical sentences / keywords. To give an example: some months ago some1 here asked for some data, I emailed the source of the data and I was sent the data. I could have just pasted the reply but I didn't, because the one that replied would be able to track down my forum post that way. Instead I rewrote it in own words, and any 'too unique' keyword I broke into parts, alike replacing 'the dog took the meat' with 'the do g took the me at'. Of course not in such too obvious way.
Just make it hard enough, the more work involved, the less chance on fugly consequences. Thieves are lazybutts. If their theft costs them as much effort as a real job, well haha.
 
Some people blur out their license plates when taking a picture of the car. Why? everyone sees it all day long????
 
i believe you can do dinner basic financial searches based on the number plate, if there are leans against it for example.
 
Get them sent to work instead.
Or a PO Box.
Or an Australia Post 24/7 parcel locker.
Or many storage unit providers like Kennards Self Storage offer a courier/postal concierge service where they sign for your parcels and then send you an SMS they have arrived, even for the small 1m cubes.

Plenty of options where you don't have to give out your home address.
 
Po box

In a post office nowhere near where I live

Don't trust the postie to not lose regular letters let alone parcels
I've had letters left in my letter box meant for other houses in my street, for houses with my number in other streets, and even one parcel with tracking meant for a different street in a different suburb
I've always put them in the right house or return to the post office, but obviously others that get my mail may not give a shit and just keep it


Anyway Cheepo, silver will be so cheap soon it won't be worth stealing :D
 
trew said:
Don't trust the postie to not lose regular letters let alone parcels
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As someone who has shipped many thousands of items via Australia Post over several decades, the loss rate runs around about 0.05% or so. Borderline zero.
 
SilverDJ said:
trew said:
Don't trust the postie to not lose regular letters let alone parcels
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As someone who has shipped many thousands of items via Australia Post over several decades, the loss rate runs around about 0.05% or so. Borderline zero.
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Maybe I'm just unlucky to have a local postie that might occasionally make a mistake or be careless.

I got a Po box after several important letters that I knew had been posted just never appeared.
Never had anything go missing from my Po box.
 
I've thought I've had lost parcels but it invariably turns out to be a seller not posting when they said they did or tracking not updating properly. i must have recieved or sent 1k parcels and i can't think of any of note that never made it.
 
Pirocco said:
This is basically a question which thief do you fear most, the privileged (read: government) or the unprivileged (private) one :P
Maybe a general attitude is the best midway: don't give away more info than needed, in general. There are people that put their real name everywhere, or just the same fake name everywhere. I use for every forum a different name. I also write in different ways. I avoid typical sentences / keywords. To give an example: some months ago some1 here asked for some data, I emailed the source of the data and I was sent the data. I could have just pasted the reply but I didn't, because the one that replied would be able to track down my forum post that way. Instead I rewrote it in own words, and any 'too unique' keyword I broke into parts, alike replacing 'the dog took the meat' with 'the do g took the me at'. Of course not in such too obvious way.
Just make it hard enough, the more work involved, the less chance on fugly consequences. Thieves are lazybutts. If their theft costs them as much effort as a real job, well haha.
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Do you mean that in some other forums you don't post walls of text 2 miles long? :)




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trew said:
Po box

In a post office nowhere near where I live

Don't trust the postie to not lose regular letters let alone parcels
I've had letters left in my letter box meant for other houses in my street, for houses with my number in other streets, and even one parcel with tracking meant for a different street in a different suburb
I've always put them in the right house or return to the post office, but obviously others that get my mail may not give a shit and just keep it


Anyway Cheepo, silver will be so cheap soon it won't be worth stealing :D
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What makes you think that the indoor postal workers are more honest than outdoor postal workers. :)

Regards Errol 43
 
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