1. The routine of face-to-face transactions

In the past few days, I have also been looking at my mobile phone in Xianyu. Because I wanted to get the phone quickly, I chose face-to-face transactions. I fell in love with a US version of the unlocked iPhone7 128GB for about 1800. After chatting for a long time, I decided to go. The editor is in Wuhan, and the place where I went to trade was at the Cyberport near Wuhan Dazhi Road subway station. I felt bad as soon as I went there. The third floor of Cyberport is full of second-hand mobile phones. After I went there, I saw the same mobile phone as the one on Xianyu. I played it a few times and found that all the parameters were fine. It was perfect. So the person who showed me the mobile phone started to say that the mobile phone was a customized machine made by the operator and it was priced at this price. They won't charge a penny more, they said they have to write a receipt. Everyone is assured that there is a one-month warranty, which is really good. Everyone be careful next, he started playing word games and wrote "Apple 7 customized machine" on the receipt. . They said they wanted to use my phone card for real-name authentication, asked me to sign, and gave me a contract. When I saw it, it was wrong. It was actually a contract with the operator! It costs 288 yuan every month! I decided not to sign because I couldn't use that much every month. Finally, due to my strong request, I refused. Friends who are in Wuhan must remember to pay attention to face-to-face transactions and be careful of being deceived. Wuhan Cyberport, Dazhi Road, Wuhan, likes to publish many of these on Xianyu, which only meet in person and do not use the platform.

2. Mailing Routine

The platform now also has a very hateful routine, which exploits loopholes in Taobao Xianyu rules. After you contact him after you like the baby, he will be very enthusiastic and explain many times that his baby does not include free shipping or free shipping! He said that in order to reassure each other, he asked you to transfer more than ten yuan to him directly in Xianyu for shipping fee! (Note that this is the transfer tool of the Xianyu platform, not WeChat.) Many people will think that if Xianyu makes a transfer function in the chat box, it must have a refund interface, and its own platform is very reassuring, so they transfer the shipping fee to him. . Then the seller will let you take pictures of the product, and then you just wait. When it has not been shipped, ask him, and he will say that the shipping cost is more than ten yuan different, and let you transfer it again. At this time, we were sure that the shipping fee was too expensive, so we decided not to buy it and applied for a refund. The seller decisively refunded the money and asked him to refund the shipping fee, but he decisively blocked him. Then you will find that communication is fruitless. We can only find Xianyu officials to deal with this person. This is a bad design flaw of Xianyu.

A few things to note

1. Check the identity before the transaction: click on the other party’s personal information, check the ratings and transaction records; if the other party sells a lot of high-priced and unpopular goods, it is probably a scammer.

2. When receiving the goods, please pay attention to video recording and weighing to prevent sellers from changing packages and malicious exchanges.

3. Regardless of any reason, we will never transfer a penny to the seller! Never leave the platform! Transact and pay according to the way you usually buy things on Taobao! Stop transferring money in the chat box!

For buyers, it takes some effort to find products they are satisfied with on Xianyu. I have summarized the following key points for your reference.

Choose the appropriate product: The so-called appropriateness means that you can choose the location of the product and the appropriate price.

Select sellers with complete basic information: As mentioned above, you must have Sesame Credit, real person certification, personal profile, Sina Weibo, and Taobao levels (or basically have them).