Be careful with sales

[forgop]

[quote author=Hutch link=topic=39115.msg163382#msg163382 date=1470528599]
I agree. But the transfer of funds at the casino also doesn't mean profit either. And the IRS duns you there for amounts over a given limit, and then you have to later document losses or expenses to get a refund. Not the same, I know, but nothing the IRS does surprises me.
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Hijack

I hate the IRS.  Got a letter from fed for 2012, saying I owed $8k for capital gains.  I must have not received a statement from a Scottrade account and just completely forgot about it.  Provided cost basis and reduced amount due to around $1k.  Paid it and thought the case was closed. 

A year later, I get a letter from the state saying I owed them over $1k from my revised 2012 federal taxes.  My state DOR cannot even provide me a copy of the 2012 state 1040 I actually filed, nor can I even get them to providing a detail of how they came up with the numbers they did.  In this time, I found out about a capital loss from 2010 I'd never even used and filed an amended federal return for 2012 this spring and they accepted it.  On the same day I sent in the federal 2012 amended return, I filed an amended 2012 return for the state.  The state confiscated ~ $500 from my 2015 return and from my amended return, I showed a balance due of $182 and sent a check and roughly $500 should be wiped out.  State cashes check in April and hasn't even acknowledged anything from my amended return.  I get home from vacation a week ago and find out the state turned over my account to collections for a delinquent tax bill and then the $182 still never came out of the amount they said was owed. 

I hate these bureaucratic assholes that have zero accountability to doing their damn job. 

[Elco69]

dang someone just clicked the forgot password link for my account. Of course I am gonna ignore that shit. But for WIW, the request came from IP address: 37.221.174.7 which is based out of Los Angeles, Area Code: 213, Zip: 90017

[TheGipper]

Los Angeles is merely where that server is located.  You need to dig a little deeper to see if it's a residential ISP (like Comcast, etc.) or not.

You can look it up on a website like [url=http://www.iplocation.net]www.iplocation.net[/url]

In the case of 37.221.174.7, the ISP is voxility.com, which is a cloud/virtual server provider.  Which means with near 100% certainty that whoever is doing this is: 1) NOT from Los Angeles, and 2) at least a little bit sophisticated in trying to hide their location.

[Fiver]

So what is the best way for a new seller to build rep?

To get started, I reached out to a member on ISO and ordered him a box at the same time I was placing an order and our transaction went great which resulted in positive feed back for the both of us.

I'm probably looking to sell some more inventory soon, and this recent happenings doesn't help...

[hp123]

[quote author=Fiver link=topic=39115.msg163458#msg163458 date=1470709642]
So what is the best way for a new seller to build rep?

To get started, I reached out to a member on ISO and ordered him a box at the same time I was placing an order and our transaction went great which resulted in positive feed back for the both of us.

I'm probably looking to sell some more inventory soon, and this recent happenings doesn't help...
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Offer to ship first (as long as the buyer has good feedback here). Basically that's the only way I would deal with a new seller, unless they were a friend from another forum.

[Fiver]

[quote author=hp123 link=topic=39115.msg163459#msg163459 date=1470710027]

Offer to ship first (as long as the buyer has good feedback here).[/quote]

Like Paulie...

[vinnyvega]

[quote author=Fiver link=topic=39115.msg163460#msg163460 date=1470710570]
Like Paulie...
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Unfortunately nothing is 100%.

Good luck!

[alwayslit]

[quote author=Elco69 link=topic=39115.msg163449#msg163449 date=1470701102]
dang someone just clicked the forgot password link for my account. Of course I am gonna ignore that shit. But for WIW, the request came from IP address: 37.221.174.7 which is based out of Los Angeles, Area Code: 213, Zip: 90017
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I just got this as well in my email today.

[Pole Lock]

[quote author=alwayslit link=topic=39115.msg163468#msg163468 date=1470751565]
I just got this as well in my email today.
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I got this last week. I'm starting to think our scammer - most likely Paulie Baby - is running this as interference - making people think this is some hacker's scam, rather than your typical garden-variety Friends n Family take.

[SrsMiscer]

Paulina always did gargle Starbuck aka habanos nuts so it totally makes sense that he's a low life scammer as well.