Be very careful who you buy off lads . More will be revealed on here and twitter shortly I know someone on This thread has bumped me for 2 sheff wed and someone else for another game .
I'm glad to hear the member you refer to returned your money. That member, as you noted has been on here for years and has a lot of positive ticket exchanges reported.
We've had two confirmed instances of foul play since this thread started in 2012.
One was a non Evertonian opportunist who exploited desperation when we were at Wembley, one was yesterday.
It's exceptionally rare then that fans "rip off" other fans on here, but still - the thread title now gives the best advice - read the first post which includes;
All online purchases carry some risk. To help mitigate that risk, we recommend;
- Payment Method. Do not, under any circumstance pay via direct bank transfer. This payment method offers you no protection whatsoever. Once you pay, there no way to reverse the payment and your bank will not refund, or track any money lost. Do your home work on payment methods, understand what, if any protection each offer. As an example, Paypal offers some valuable added protection.
- Where possible meet face to face, ideally at one of Everton's matches and exchange in person.
- If a person attempts to communicate via GOT private messaging, texts or other messaging services rather than through an open forum, please be cautious.
- Use the search function in the thread to see if the poster has offered tickets before, contact via private conversation anyone who appears to have bought from the poster in the past to verify.
- Check the poster's history on this site - has the poster registered here recently or been here a long time?
- If in any doubt, contact a moderator of GrandOldTeam here.
@GrandOldTeam Share their IP address with the victims and ask them to report it to Action Fraud via here
We do it on their behalf - we've only had to do it twice since 2012;
I'm really disappointed to report @Brunoderulo has scammed a member from this thread. All the details we hold for this member, IP and email address and his bank details will be reported accordingly.
I think my post yesterday could make a few a little paranoid.
While not necessarily a bad thing, it's also important to consider context.