Do you pay a deposit?

[Quixotic]

There are many buying and selling frauds. Cannot trust anyone. In this case Seller has a fridge to sell. She is relocating. Can only handover the fridge end Feb. It’s needed until this time (understandable). She wants a deposit to show that I am serious and that I will not just leave her in a lurch on her last day. She will have no time to then sell.

Do I pay the deposit? If I don’t and wait until end Feb it may be sold already. If I pay, what if she just disappears or sells the fridge to someone else (and does not refund me) or claims I never paid. Maybe she was not really relocating and it was all a ruse.

Escrow? Would this work?

I intend to see the fridge first.

 

[Former member 61586]

No. Just no.

 

[NeonNinja]

No.

 

[zerocool2009]

Ask het when can you view, pay in full, and load it up

 

[epah]

WTF. hell no. You pay once you get the goods.

 

[rodga]

Ask het when can you view, pay in full, and load it up

This. I would never pay a deposit to a stranger.

 

[dontcryforme]

Are people still falling for these kind of things? Is the OP serious? April is still more than a month away

 

[bwana]

Is this the only fridge left in the world? Then maybe.

Otherwise, no... hell no.

 

[rvZA]

Walk away. Much easier and safer.

 

[epah]

Walk away. Much easier and safer.

Exactly, how can you trust someone who lives in a failed state

 

[rvZA]

Exactly, how can you trust someone who lives in a failed state

Damn, just to think I wanted to warn the guy about the failed state and current civil war and this could have been a trap and all that... instead I thought to keep the message short. I am glad to see people are learning though.

 

[Quixotic]

Ask het when can you view, pay in full, and load it up

She cannot handover the fridge until end Feb. If I wait the fridge may have gone by then

 

[SlowInternet]

No

 

[Quixotic]

WTF. hell no. You pay once you get the goods.

It may be too late by then. Deposit is a way of reserving it but.....

 

[Quixotic]

Is this the only fridge left in the world? Then maybe.

Otherwise, no... hell no.

I also have a deadline for buying a fridge and becoming a bit desperate

 

[UB40]

This sounds like a kakgedagte, walk away

 

[epah]

It may be too late by then. Deposit is a way of reserving it but.....

Doesnt matter, Its a fridge not a porsche 992 GT3 RS. Surely its not that rare.

 

[bwana]

I also have a deadline for buying a fridge and becoming a bit desperate

You would not have started this thread is you didn't already have reservations.

You seem desperate to lose your money despite the advice everyone seems to be giving you - walk away.

FWIW I just searched FB marketplace and there are hundreds of refrigerators in my area. Hundreds.

 

[epah]

Damn, just to think I wanted to warn the guy about the failed state and current civil war and this could have been a trap and all that... instead I thought to keep the message short. I am glad to see people are learning though.

I always learn from you, keep spreading the message.

 

[Quixotic]

You would not have started this thread is you didn't already have reservations. FWIW I just searched FB marketplace and there are hundreds of refrigerators in my area. Hundreds.

You seem desperate to lose your money despite the advice everyone seems to be giving you - walk away.

Many of those hundred are actually clear scams. Selling at unbelieavble prices behind Whatapp business (fake) accounts. Only on-line and you have to pay in full before delivery.