► Be careful buying goods online.

Mostly, deals users are credible and honest.
At any case, it’s better to follow some pieces of advice and be careful. You should have as many guarantees buying online, as if you do it offline.
Taking recommendations to consideration, you receive all substantiations to believe, that your purchase will be successful:
•    It’s better to be concerned with those, whom you can meet with, if it would be necessary. This point practically insures you from the deception, but even it can’t give 100% of guarantees.
•    Firstly, see for what you pay, and if the company asks firstly to pay, there is every likelihood, that they are swindlers
•    Draw your attention to very cheap goods, and remember that low price and low quality are not far from each other.
•    Don’t allow the seller to hurry you. A serious company understands and explains every trifle to the consumer.
•    Be sure, that the product is really produced by the firm, which is marked on it. Especially, if you are going to buy a product by well known company. It‘s also recommended to draw attention to the tickets and multimedia products.
•    You should be given a cheque, which will be a guarantee, that you’ve made a purchase.
•    Ask for all the contacts, not only, e-mail or skype. It will help to solve various problems, which can occur unexpectedly. You and a seller should have an opportunity to communicate without any complications.
•    Loook through our advices for purchasing goods, cats, dogs, horses or cars that were already in use

Methods of payment

•    We recommend you to use certified cheque or cash, while paying for purchase.
•    Money transfer services, inclusive Western Union are not good at this case. Avoid these ways of payment.
•    Do everything without intermediary. The intermediary wouldn’t guarantee you the final successful result, so it’s better to avoid it. 

Are you determined to buy a motor vehicle?

•    Be careful and receive the information, whether the motor vehicle is not under a Hire Purchase agreement. Don’t believe on one's bare word, and check yourself.
•    Pay attention to the car history, here we offer a list of numbers of large Irish online services: MyWheels, Motorcheck, Cartell.
•    Ask the professional to check the technical qualities of the motor vehicle and only, if he assures you that everything is Okey, make a purchase. 

 

► Protect yourself selling goods through classifieds

It is important to be careful when you sell or purchase goods through classifieds. The pieces of advice given hereafter can help you to avoid problems.
•    Deliver goods only after receiving the total sum of money for it.
•    Don’t confide an unidentified individual who phones or writes to you and promises to introduce you to an interested customer and asks to pay him in advance.

Methods of payment

•    If the sum of money is not very large the best methods of payment is cash.
•    Large sums can be received through the bank. Don’t forget to check the bank cheque in emitting bank before delivering the products. You may phone to the bank or visit one the affiliate banks.
•    Under no circumstances agree to receive payment by foreign check or banker's bill.

Are you determined to sell vehicle?

Selling vehicle you need registration of the proprietorship change. In the web-site Citizens Information you can find many useful materials about vehicle proprietorship in Ireland.

 

► Thunder down deceit: Foreign Cheque

How to find out a deceit when receiving foreign checks

1.    Sometimes we are dealing with foreign customers
2.    Foreigners wish to pay by cheque – a check drawn by an overseas bank

How can it be managed?

1.    A customer phones or writes to you and says that he is determined to buy one of your goods. This buyer may live in other country, but he offers the payment by bank draft, promising to pay for the shipment of the product and additional charge.
2.    You receive the check for larger sum of money than the price of the item you are selling, that’s why they request you to send them back the difference after negotiating the check.
3.    You go to your bank and ask to negotiate a check, and think that soon the total sum of money should be in your banking account.
4.    You pay the difference (it may be one or two thousands of euro) back to the customer.
5.    In a few days the bank finds out that the check was stolen, falsified or can’t be cashed by some other reason. So, you must compensate the total amount of money to the bank yourself.
In reality the swindler is not determined to purchase your product, he needs only your money.

What is done by Deals to thunder down this deceit?

The customer usually writes to the seller using the mail system on the Deals website. Our site has a well-developed spam filter system, and most emails from swindlers are blocked. So, we are doing our best for the advertisers to receive only directed emails. 

Sample

The user of our site offers some goods, the other user asks for additional details about it. After the pro-and-con the customer is ready to make a purchase.
Then, they send you a cheque for more sum, than the purchase is cost and ask you to give back the extra sum of money. They hope that you’ll be honest, write you about it and apologizes thousands of times. As a rule they ask to send the money by bank transfer or wire. As though, the goods, which they are going to buy, should be delivered in some other place, mostly, some other country and all the expenses they are ready to pay.
Here is a sample of the scheme, which the swindlers follow:


The second mail from the swindlers will be like this:



 

 

 

 

 

 

1. You’re selling a motor vehicle in the Internet.
2. Some strange person phones you or sends e-mail and offers you to find a client for your vehicle, but firstly, you are to pay sum of money for the services. They promise that in short terms you’ll sell your motor vehicle. 

 

What is the whole scheme?

1.    Some worker of the unknown company, which has a base of many buyers who are going to buy a motor vehicle, phones you. He explains that all they (buyers) are determined to buy that very motor vehicle, which you have. And your price is also applicable for them. 
2.    This company provides a guarantee that your motor vehicle will be sold, but firstly you’re to pay for their services.
3.    At last you agree to this and pay money. After that you’re not interesting for them. They weren’t going to help you sell your item, but just receive your money. They don’t have any base of buyers.

Take to consideration, that there are very many different swindlers. They are organized and work as companies or individually. Beaware of all them, but the most popular company, which just waste money and time of those, who are dealing with it is Vehicle Centre Company. Sometimes it takes the name ”MotorHelp”. By the way, it is British company. Avoid it and refuse from any offers made by them.

This company like others, which have the same activity, are enquired into by the Irish and UK organizations which control buyers and the Irelandian fraud squad.

If you are facing some problems with similar company, you can phone to the Center helping customers in the United Kingdom or in Ireland, they adjust the Europe-wide inquiries of such companies with the local force.