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Andy S.

UK

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1 Review by Andy

  • Preloved UK

3/8/22

Buyer or seller alike, you risk more than a couple of quid here if you sell OR buy.
Would you give out your personal details to enhance the nefarious behaviour of scammers? No, of course you wouldn't! Then WHY does an unlicensed and non compliant to legal registration's web site, entertain YOUR personal information to become available to 3rd party voyeurs? The help yourself attitude is furthered by the pre constructed, question boxes provided, when a potential buyer is free to ask a seemingly harmless, pre formatted question, " Is it still available? " Any child of 3 years old can press that button and so can a scammer, who is solely intent of making contact to get of further details of YOU and NOT the item being sold. Not saying that ALL communications are resultant of this procedure but after being in contact with 50+ sellers in this venue, an overwhelming response from them, indicate that this IS the situation. Indicative coincidences for instance, is the consistency of enquirers whose page names end in " a",, Peta, Anna, Alina, etc. All of which, ( after they have got your attention towards the ridiculous question of " is it still available ", rather than construct a more credible question about the item itself, they further respond with asking immediate details of where you live, can I have your bank details etc etc. Anything but an associative question about the item! Did you also know that this venue does not even hold certification to retain the information you register with them, on file? Moreso, neither does one of their newer associations, YOTI! A firm with less cred than preloved itself ( see https://justuseapp.com/en/app/*******/yoti-your-digital-identity/reviews) for overwhelming detail and this is suppose to instil a feeling of more security, according to preloved, who are now asking sellers to join the ranks and become APPROVED sellers? The process involves you providing THEM with just about every detail, document and actual photographic evidence of yourself, that, in the unlicensed hands ( and they are NOT licensed OR approved OR certified in the UK) would be more than sufficient for a scammer or ANY other nefarious character to assume your identity and clean you out! So, as you will have perceived,,,, do you really want to open yourself up to this risk? They could of course ( had they felt that their viewing users of the venue were at any singular risk) utilised the services of GOOGLE identity registrations or similar. Any in fact, that had more credence than what they have now... But, they didn't and haven't. End of..

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