How does the whole BST thing work. How is information not dangerously disclosed or is there something else I’m missing, just curious cause I might want to look into seeing if anyone has a certain yoyo on my mind
- For the most part yoyoing is a small community that’s fairly trustworthy. I’ve done deals with dozens of people, Europeans, Asians, etc. and I’ve never personally felt like my information was being dangerously disclosed. The worst fallout from BST is scams, which are fairly rare. But if you’re insistent on keeping your information private
- Have people ship to a PO box
- Have the name on the package be a nickname (I do this)
But another thing that works is simply… knowing who people are. When you spend time in the community you get to know people and figure out rather quickly who is and isn’t trustworthy. If someone new comes in and they’re selling a lot of awesome yoyos for cheap… be suspicious.
- You can put all that stuff you put in the title in your main post lol
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Ya thanks. In new to this but not a scammer. Thank goodness. I’m tryna look for a photon spirit but I’m not sure if I can pull the trigger on a deal yet (that is if someone even has one to sell)
There’s feedback threads
There’s nothing more sensitive than your email and address being shared (privately.)
If you’re concerned, add a fee bucks and do Goods and Services payment
Sorry to bother but what are those things?
if you are relatively younger it might be better to ask your parents to help with transactions
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Absolutely, that’s why I’m uncertain about pulling the trigger on a deal if there is one. Thanks
If you end up buying something on the BST’s, a lot of times you will perform a transaction through PayPal. If you want to be extra cautious, in PayPal there’s an option called “Goods and Services” that essentially makes it easy to get a refund through PayPal if the item doesn’t ship or gets lost in the mail, etc. This usually incurs a little additional fee to the seller so it’s typically asked to cover that as well if it wasn’t already included in the pricing if you go that route (usually around 2.99% if domestic in the US).
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oOOkay that makes more sense. Thank you
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As of 2021 it’s 3.49% + 49¢ per transaction – an easy way to calculate this is with:
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I got burned years ago buying a graphics card from a guy i played quake with (screw you dominic) so i usually do goods and services now as a matter of course unless I’ve bought from someone before (
you @fradiger )
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Is it not still the “Send/Receive Money for Goods and Services”?
They still have this on the PayPal website:
The 3.49% + Fixed amount looks only related to PayPal Checkout, which is kind of a different thing than the money transfers.
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I’ve had someone try to pay me with G&S recently using 2.99% and it did not total what they expected it to after paypal took their fee.
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I recently had someone take payment and not follow through, they were someone who pull the scam before, but using a new profile. I made the following mistakes:
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I underestimated the importance of weighing the sellers account age against their post history. If I would have paid attention, the posts they had made in the few months their acct was active were not typical of a new account. They acted like they had been there a while.
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they had no sellers feedback
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I used friends and family to avoid a fee that I could afforded.
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I was afraid to offend someone I barely knew by implying I didn’t trust them enough to use f&f
I have a post about the whole thing, it’s a good read if you want a look into what happened and what to avoid.
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Did they do the calculation correct? That’s where some of the confusion lies usually I believe.
For example, if you just do $100 + 2.99% (100*1.0299) = $102.99
But it’s 2.99% of the TOTAL payment, so the formula should be (Throw Price) / (1-.0299), or in this example (100) / (1-.0299) = $103.08
Because you’re essentially looking for $100, AFTER the percentage has been taken off.
So you would get less after the fees if they did it the first way.
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Maybe that was it. But the difference is on an order of $1 per $100 so IMO using the above calculator is just easier for everyone.
Generally I only do transactions with folks I know, people who have good feedback or folks that have done transactions successfully with people I know. If I see a red flag or things feel odd I move on. Always willing to pass on a yoyo if it doesn’t feel right over wasting my money on a potential scam.
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Also and not everyone does this and it’s really annoying.
If someone refuses to post a well formatted bst post that meets the minimum guidelines I absolutely refuse to do business with them.
I’ve probably missed a bunch of stuff but I find a seller doing less than the minimum or posting a poorly done sales post isn’t worth transacting with even if I know them.
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Here’s the short version!…. Before you buy from someone ask to see if he’s legit in the pages, the dudes who post saying “yes” most likely bought or sold somthing to the person then keep that In mind for if the dude doesn’t send your item or scams you, you can hunt down an address to hunt them down and get your shiz right one way or another. Yes I’ve had to do this. Yes I got my money back. …… stand up for yourself, grow a set.
Are you looking for a Photon Spirit specifically, or a yoyo that has a similar gimmick to the Photon Spirit? The Blazing Team Metal Max Tornado is pretty much the same, but easier to find, with potentially some stores or EBay selling them.
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