ChestNet Transactions Tips: Send and Receive Money Safely

Buying a laptop from Craigslist? Sold your Wii system on eBay? Why send money to a stranger when you can protect your transaction by using ChestNet Transactions secure online payment system. If you are sending or receiving a payment for items bought our sold outside of ChestNet Transactions, use the links listed under “Payments” section of My ChestNet Transactions Tools.

To request money from a buyer click “Request Money” under the green Payments section.

To send money to a seller click “Send Money” under the green Payments section.

To manage your payment requests, use “Overview” to track the progress of your payments.

Buy and Sell Safely,

./Casey

What if the BCS Ran College Basketball?

It’s here! The NCAA Tournament is just a day away. The ChestNet Transactions office pool is in. (Can you say free Starbucks anyone?)

In my last post I predicted that the USC Trojans would win the Pac 10 tourney. I was off by one team. Oregon spanked the men of Troy in Saturday’s final at the Staples Center. I personally think the Oregon Ducks are the hottest team coming into the tournament, but it is going to be the Ohio State Buckeyes cutting down the nets. Then again, last time I said a team was hot (Washington), they didn’t even make the NIT.

Why the Buckeyes you ask? Easy! Kansas is too young. UCLA is soft. Texas and North Carolina will wear each other down too much to compete in the end. That leaves the football school OSU. Does this make them a basketball dynasty? Far from, but below is a list of schools who are … along with some wool dynasty national championship banners for each of the teams:

UCLA Bruins

Arizona Wildcats

Duke Blue Devils

Indiana Hoosiers

Kansas Jayhawks

Kentucky Wildcats

Louisville Cardinals

North Carolina Tarheels

I read an interesting article the other day in the Los Angeles Times titled “BCS Basket case“. The author, Chris Dufresne, asked us to imagine college basketball if the BCS (Basketball Championship Series) were to run things with the same rules as football. His story really exposed the fraud of a system that college football gives us. It really made me wish we had a similar playoff system in NCAA D1 football like March Madness. Could you imagine! Any who, enough about sports, back to putting fraudsters out of business for me.

Buy and Sell Safely,

./Casey

eBay Stamp Scam – Biggest Online ?

In spirit of recommending some of my favorite websites, I’d like to give a quick ChestNet Transactions Stamp of Enjoyment to http://www.419eater.com/, a site dedicated to exposing fraudsters.

Speaking of stamps, I wasn’t too surprised at recent article titled “Is eBay stamp racket the Net’s stickiest scam?“.

The article got me thinking … is it? I personally think so, but on a much bigger scale then just stamps. The commonly unreported misrepresentation of goods is the largest and most unreported online. For an example, is that Gucci wallet you practically got for free from the seller on eBay really a Gucci or Pucci made in Vietnam? You would like to tell yourself it is and by golly he had positive feedback (whatever that really means!). But how can one tell? If one can tell eventually, can one swallow ones own pride enough to report the fraud? If one can swallow that pride, who does one report the online fraud to? eBay? Police? FBI? Batman!

Psst. Stamp Collectors. A little secret I’d like to share with you. Use ChestNet Transactions. At least with ChestNet Transactions, you will get seven days to approve the stamp before the seller gets paid. In the case of the stamp, that’s 168 consecutive hours to get your super small sticky paper collector b u double t over to an appraiser or your fellow collectors to see if the item is legit. If not, return and refund! It’s that simple with ChestNet Transactions.

Buy and Sell Safely,

./Casey