Any one of you fellows have any experience with steam cards? I have a possible buyer for some L.C. Smith gun parts I no longer need, and he wants to pay for them with a steam card? I am a "dinosaur" here, as I do NOT use, or have, either credit cards or Amazon or E-Bay accounts. RWTF
Are you talking about the online gift cards? If so no, heck no. Get cash, usps money order or other real funds. Too many people using gift and game cards to run scams. Think of them as unregulated things with nothing real behind them. Does that sound good to you? Me either.
USPS money order for this potential "buyer". He can cash the "scam card" and use the cash to buy the postal money orders. USPS can only issue $1000 per MO, but a motivated buyer will buy as many as needed. Gil
I like a personal check or USPS Money order, maybe a cashiers check. When your check clears I ship Your stuff. No Venmo, Zelle , Paypal etc. either.
Steam cards are a thing and there is a website, but a MO from USPS is better. It seems the Steam cards can only be redeemed for merchandise. No thanks on the Steam card
Awhile back the bigger scam was a forged cashiers check made out to the buyer, but endorsed to the seller, for more money than the purchase price. The seller was to send the gun along with cash above the purchase price. The buyer and his buddies must have had a good time laughing at the poor sucker who complied with the scheme. One commonly ignored detail about bank (cashier's) checks is that they are subject to a stop payment order by the originator of the check. While not exactly a "purchase/sale" here's how an otherwise model citizen, minister and Vietnam vet, got sucked into cashing a forged Nigerian bank check and became complicit in a Nigerian email scam and paid the price:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/05/15/the-perfect-markGil