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ZOMG SCAMZ!
12 years ago
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Be wary of customers over-paying for art.
If you ever work a soul-sucking retail job, you go through register training and loss prevention. They teach you about a cute little scam pulled when people give you cash and then try and hand you money while you're making change to confuse you. You end up giving them change for a $20 when they only handed you a $10 during all the money swapping (or something similar). Something to watch out for when you're working a table at a convention where a larger than usual number of people are paying in cash.
But there's also an internet scam going around to rob you of arts. Basically the person claims that the check from some 3rd party was a mistake, so please go ahead and deposit it and send a check for the difference along with the art. Then they cancel the check and you're out the art AND the cash if you don't catch the bad check in time to cancel your own (or you're just screwed if you were actually talked into sending a more reliable form of payment like a money order). You can always google your customer. This is the future!
http://jeannewilliamson.blogspot.co.....w-artists.html
Places I will be!
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 https://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
Ikkicon (art Show, attending, staff) December 27-29 http://ikkicon.com/
If you ever work a soul-sucking retail job, you go through register training and loss prevention. They teach you about a cute little scam pulled when people give you cash and then try and hand you money while you're making change to confuse you. You end up giving them change for a $20 when they only handed you a $10 during all the money swapping (or something similar). Something to watch out for when you're working a table at a convention where a larger than usual number of people are paying in cash.
But there's also an internet scam going around to rob you of arts. Basically the person claims that the check from some 3rd party was a mistake, so please go ahead and deposit it and send a check for the difference along with the art. Then they cancel the check and you're out the art AND the cash if you don't catch the bad check in time to cancel your own (or you're just screwed if you were actually talked into sending a more reliable form of payment like a money order). You can always google your customer. This is the future!
http://jeannewilliamson.blogspot.co.....w-artists.html
Places I will be!
Alamo City Comic Con (attending, dealer) October 25-27 https://www.alamocitycomiccon.com/
Ikkicon (art Show, attending, staff) December 27-29 http://ikkicon.com/
Corollary: Never send money in the form of a personal check to random people on the internet. They have bank account routing numbers and a bunch of personal info that can be useful when trying to steal someone's identity. Use a money order if you can't use a service like PayPal.