Reverb scams are back! 

Credit where credit is due, they are actually quite good at it!

Unfortunate that the bar is so low nowadays that dealing with scams promptly is impressive :/ (no offence meant to you, this is just my observation)

​@@delusion5867wtf do you want them to do

​@@delusion5867 someone has to make this comment every single time, like yeah, we get it

They’re all ridiculous prices

My dude doing gods work haha Fair play bud!

Yeah, it happens a lot in the States. I always wonder what happens to the person scammed. Maybe it's just one of his buddies and it's just a game.

@@CormacTunstead im just looking around and find these ridiculously low priced top items. You gotta flag them. Somebody may fall for that crap. Reverb shouldn’t allow it but their AI ain’t smart enough

I do the same thing. At times, I've asked for a pic of the item together with the front page of a current newspaper.

Just had that happen the other day.

​@@rosewoodsteel6656a current newspaper 😂.

Sometimes you get the guy who gets all upset about having to take extra pictures too😂

@@HimothyBurton If someone is upset about adding a few pictures, which can make a sale easier for them, I would move on.

FB is just maga lunatics anyway, should be avoided

Yes they do and that crap's gotta change

And if you report it, because most of the scams are paid or ‘sponsored ads’ FB says ‘nope, not a scam, we got paid so it must be good’

FB account deleted. Much better now!

Yep. Same here. Can take you a little longer to get your money but reverb make sure you are somewhat legit.

Yeah these guys must have laid the groundwork by mailing each other stuff or something. Like you guys said , it was hard with reverb, first sales were held until buyer verified receiving item I think. It was a long time ago for me though I have had my reverb account forever ,maybe there is a way around it now?

I get paid once shipped, but I am a Pref Seller.

@@fortheloveofnoise9298 same.

I hate scammers. I hope I never run into one for their sake.

Sorry for your loss.

Frauds have no consciences at all. I have a family member who was scammed by someone and she is wheelchair bound, and they clearly knew that. They had two people in their "cast" who could mimic voices, had a LOT of background info that a stranger should not have, and it turned out the police knew of eight other people the same frauds had scammed during just the previous two weeks.

Same. Unless it's a shop I know or one I can locally verify.

The scams really aren’t that hard to spot. Still the best place to buy used gear imo. Just have some common sense. If you’re dumb enough to buy a 70s Les Paul for $1300 or a 90s Parker Fly for $750 as shown in this video, That’s on you.

​@allstopblue5717 yeah. Scams are always easy to spot. To good to be true pricing, or they want you to send payment some other way, or a deposit first...etc. Just buy from known sellers, or know what questions to ask those with little history.

​@@allstopblue5717 no it's not. It's on the scammer still. Regardless of your high opinion of yourself.

@@allstopblue5717 I've never been scammed on Reverb. I've bought some things that I had to return but I've never been scammed. Actually I think Ebay is better but Reverb has more sellers now.

Sorry on all fronts! I hope things get better soon- and before you have to sell off too much gear :/

Be honest, say right up front that you've never sold anything on Reverb before and say you'll answer all questions if asked. Hope you don't have to mess with it though, best of luck.

You can easily prove you are (most likely) not a scammer by being willing to take requested photos from people, to prove you at least actually own the guitar. Not a guarantee, but it shows you are willing to play ball at least. Also works the other way, always make people prove they own the gear they are selling. If they are, they'll be happy to do so.

What are you selling? I might be interested

yeah my business is 1/3 of what it used to be, sucks

Thank you!!

I bought two brand new guitars from rondo and they were brand new satisfied

@@stewarttomkinson3356 he means stuff that is 'mint' not new but they only played it a couple of times and didn't scratch it so in their dishonest mind they think they can get full new price for it and list it as 'brand new' while stating in the description that they bought it off sweetwater or andertons then opened and played it but it's after the return period

It wasn't even that cheap. That was the worst part.

Yup. And actual credit card, not a debit card (even if your debit card is from the same bank as your credit card...I know from experience that it's *much* easier to fix credit card purchases). Paypal is good for sending money to friends or small shit (if you lose a $10 trinket it's not the end of the world), but don't use Paypal for major purchases (if you lose a $2000 item, it's a BIG fucking deal).

Happened to me on Reverb, the tracking number scam, I wish i had known, PayPal sided with the scammer even though i had good evidence, i kept getting emails from PayPal saying i had closed the claim when i hadn't, took months of headaches, sleepless nights, emails, phone calls everyday finally got the money back but it was a nightmare. Deleted PayPal account and won't use Reverb again. You have to be really careful these days.

Yeah, the scams are usually of the hottest and most well known items on the market like the Helix or a Gibson Les Paul or something.

In many cases, looking up photos means that they're looking up images' EXIF data (which is a lot easier to do in bulk). If a scammer alters it or completely removes it, even Google would have a harder time tracing its copies. It's not impossible, but a lot harder.

One problem you have is that legitimate sellers will often post multiple listings of the same item at different prices. I think they do this to make you think you're getting some kind of special discount. I've noticed that a lot.

I think it just takes a little time. I had a guitar listed once that had a few shots of mine and pro studio shots from the seller I bought from after my photos. I clearly stated it in the listing to not be shady. Reverb disabled the listing with a message within a day or two. I had to remove the pics that weren’t mine and the listing went back up.

Yeah, have you seen Ken Parker's RU-vid channel? I just bought a NiteFly and it's supposed to come today. I think they're the best guitars out there.

It’s a combination of scammers and bad actors - I won’t buy or sell on Reverb right now, though both are tempting. I see stuff I like, and I’d have to first sell one or two of my guitars to have some spending money. But buyers on Reverb will claim the instrument arrived not in the advertised condition, to force sellers to either take the guitar back while eating the shipping costs ($$$), or asking the seller for a discount - which is often the easiest path forward. (Having the bad actor ship your guitar back to you, and trusting them to pack it well, or even trusting them to not swap it out for a cheap Squier and then claim that’s what you sent them… headache!) And then when buying on Reverb, even if the seller is legit, last time I bought a guitar the seller didn’t check the box for insurance coverage. And he packed it poorly. And it arrived with a cracked headstock - which UPS took back, and they inspected it, completely separating the broken headstock from the neck, losing lots of small chunks of wood in the process. Then a lot of back and forth with the seller, and redirecting the guitar back to me. UPS had thrown the gigbag in the box with zero packaging peanuts! So now it had even more damage! My luthier was able to fix the headstock, somehow, but then I find out 2 pickups are dead. I bring it to my tech, and they’re kinda weird double coil singles with a grounded shielding wrap - but he couldn’t get a signal out of them… And if that didn’t completely turn me off Reverb, I made an offer on a guitar that was listed with a hard case but was shipped with no case at all. Luckily it was packaged well and didn’t break. When asked, the seller said bc I made an offer for $50 off his listed price, he didn’t include the hard case. The fine print in his listing even said “hard case included at full asking price” - which the seller might have added that text after I made my offer. I ended up finding a used hard case for $75. I lost the energy to even fight it. Oh, and then when I changedvout the strings and cleaned it up a couple weeks later, I found a whole ton of issues I had to deal with, including replacing bad pots and jack - just more $$ spent on a guitar that was listed as “lovingly cared for: one of my favorites in my collection” etc.

What did you do about it? That's a shady seller, not Reverb's fault. Also could be a simple mix-up with a seller who had a few of the same model (I also buy/sell TCG cards, and have had a seller on TCGplayer [the card game version of Reverb] send me the wrong printing of the right card a few times [things got rectified when I brought it up]).

@@Kylora2112 its sold on reverbs website its their fault.

As a buyer, they almost always have full control in the transaction. If you contacted reverb they would’ve refunded you 100% and be in your favor

Used stuff on Reverb was bad during Covid but now it's back to where you can save a good bit. I wouldn't buy used unless it's a third cheaper than new.

@@joeking433 look at other places such as the gear page. No crappy taxes and fees. Better people on their since most are actual musicians and not generic mindless customers that reverb has. I been selling/buying through with ease and even made good friends/conversations through there. It reminds me of what reverb used to be, back when it was actually owned by and used by mostly musicians.

Just googled and found someone also tried to sell it on Craig'sList :(

😂😂😂

Just undercut the lowest offering, even if by one dollar. Do a very nice listing though, good photos, good description. Be Nice. You’ll get going in no time. I sell on reverb all the time.

While I only had 10 feedback when I started selling on Reverb, I would post clear photos, and link a short performance video that's on RU-vid. Then, when it sells, I do another performance video just as I'm about to pack it, then show myself packing it up. This way they can't claim it was broken when I shipped it. I message the seller on Reverb with the link to the video the day that I ship.

​@@gunkyzip Do you know if I'm allowed to put a link to my eBay profile to show I'm not a scammer? I have 600+ feedback and 100% positive.

@@gunkyzip Great idea! I always take photos of the item as it's being packed. If I need the photos, I have them. I haven't needed them yet.

People will buy what you're selling at a good price. I never had any trouble.

It used to happen on eBay once upon a time. Then they started dotting out letter in names which made any name hunting tricky.