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Check a Seller Before You Pay

Paste the link to their Facebook profile. We check it against scam reports from our members, research what is publicly known about them, and tell you what we found. Takes about a minute.

Open their profile, copy the address bar, paste it here. A username on its own works too.

Optional: sharpen it with what you can see

The URL on its own is enough. These only make the answer sharper.

Shown on the profile under Intro, or on the About page.
Not gear shots. Actual pictures of them, over time.
Scroll their posts. A real account has a life on it.
Comments from friends, tagged photos, birthday wishes. Hard to fake.
Someone you can actually ask about them.
A real business has customers talking on it, not just likes.
A working photographer has a body of work with a consistent look.
The single most reliable signal there is.
The gear next to a handwritten note with your name and today's date.
Other buyers waiting, deposit to hold it, offer ends today.
Check it on our price checker first if you are not sure.
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Anything the questions above did not cover. Paste the conversation if you have one.

Free, no sign in. Give it a minute, it reads the open web before it answers.

Paste a profile to begin

Our list is built from reports our own members send in, checked by a moderator before anything is published.

Do these six things, in this order

  1. Ask for a proof photo before anything else

    A photo of the gear next to a handwritten note with your name and today's date on it. Not a photo of a note on its own, and not a photo they already have. This one test ends most scams, because someone using stolen photos cannot produce it.

  2. Never send money as friends and family

    PayPal Goods and Services, or a card. If they ask for Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, friends and family, gift cards, wire or crypto, stop. Those are chosen because the money cannot be recovered, and that is the only reason to prefer them.

  3. Run a reverse image search on their photos

    Save their photos and drop them into Google Images or TinEye. If the same picture is on an old listing, a shop page or a review site, they do not have the item.

  4. Check the asking price against the market

    Well under the going rate is the bait, not the bargain. Our price checker gives you the real range in a few seconds.

    Open the price checker

  5. Ask for the serial number

    A real owner can read it off the body in a minute. Check it against our stolen gear watchlist, and it also proves they are holding the item.

  6. Watch for pressure and for moving off platform

    Another buyer is waiting, they are deploying overseas, a shipping agent will handle it, pay now to hold it. Urgency exists to stop you checking. A genuine seller can wait an hour.

Report someone who scammed you

Reports are how this list exists. A moderator reads every one and checks the evidence before it shows up in anyone's search, so nobody is named on a single anonymous say-so.

How this works

We match the link against scam reports our members have sent in, which a moderator confirms before it counts. Then we research the handle on the open web: warnings naming it, a business behind it, published work, anything that ties to it. Nobody can read a stranger's Facebook profile, so what someone leaves elsewhere is the honest signal, and finding nothing is normal for a private seller rather than proof of anything.

Your answers are not stored against anyone's name. A grade is information to act on, not proof about a person, so work the checks either way.