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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Galford on December 19, 2012, 04:32 am

Title: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: Galford on December 19, 2012, 04:32 am
Anyone else here have strange buyer activity, in that the same person orders - in the same 24 hour period - 1 item, then 10, then 5 then 1, where the item is always the same, and I give discounts for bulk, why would this person do this?

Anyone else encounter this?

Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: tea_drinker on December 19, 2012, 04:37 am
That's strange.. I would message them and ask them if they would like them all sent in 1 shipment?

It's possible they just don't understand how the ordering process works... Eh, trust your gut.
Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: SelfSovereignty on December 19, 2012, 04:42 am
... I'd message the guy, and if you get no response or don't like the response you get, just cancel the orders.  It's very odd indeed.
Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: Galford on December 19, 2012, 04:55 am
i messaged him, he also slightly changes the spelling of his name for every order.

He explained the name changes, but not the odd ordering..
Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: SelfSovereignty on December 19, 2012, 05:02 am
I'm not a vendor, first of all.  So this could happen every day for all I fucking know, and since I'm sane, it obviously looks nutty as Hell to me.

But here's what it sounds like, and now please don't take this as definitive or anything: he's probing.  For what?  Vulnerability, I assume.  Maybe he's the one who launched this stupid lame-ass attack.  But I don't see any reason why he'd be doing what he's doing... I mean unless he's retarded or on better drugs than I've ever had.
Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: Rocker on December 19, 2012, 07:40 am
If I were you I'd just cancel the orders, cuse that's fucking weird

Much Love,

Rocker
Title: Re: Weird buyer activity - question for vendors
Post by: Selfmade on December 19, 2012, 09:25 am
Galford,

I've been having a lot of weird buyer activity too....for instant, a buyer just messaged me tonight telling me he got robbed and could I front him some weed!!!! Then I had a buyer change up his name too, but he didn't order random orders of the same thing though. I say man go with your gut and if you find yourself questioning a order...cancel that sucker! Cause I know if that buyer of mines had not only kept changing his name and ordering random orders I would've cancelled his order.