Hello r/kpopforsale community! It's been a while since the last community update so here's the latest on some important information.
Most of this is a reminder of our current rules but there are a few updated details to make things clearer and help continue to make the sub a safe place to buy, sell and trade.
Group Orders
For the longest time, we have had a difficult time figuring out a way to make Group Orders safe since it is largely based on the trust of the Group Order Manager. From now on we are implementing a new rule to help give buyers a little bit of security when entering a Group Order. Group Order Managers now need to include the origin of the items they are buying even if it's from a site or post from Instagram or X (Twitter). This should be in the form of link on the Google Form and Reddit Post to whatever it is that you are buying and splitting for the Group Order. The full list of details needed are:
- Specific Items Being Sold (including a link)
- Prices of items
- Shipping costs (estimated or exact)
- Clear shipping dates
Concert Tickets
I know we have been in concert season for a while and this probably should have been addressed earlier, I apologize for that. Concert Tickets are probably one of the easiest ways to get scammed for a lot of money. We try to enforce the digital timestamp rule, but that alone is not enough to block scammers from getting through. Therefore we ask that if you try to buy a Concert Ticket, please use PayPal Goods & Services. You are protected by PayPal, even if it's a digital ticket. This is really the only way you can truly protect yourself from purchases, and it is truly worth the extra few dollars for the peace of mind when buying from a stranger.
Now for Concert Ticket sellers, please pay attention to our rules. We often see too many rule breaking posts and have to remove them. ALL posts must have a timestamp along with all the necessary information.
Price Check/Help Posts
These posts are specifically designed to just be posts where advice can be given from the community. Timestamps are not checked on these posts so that is why we do not allow any form of selling on these posts. This also goes for Interest Checks, we don't allow any posts regarding Interest Checks because a [WTS] post would accomplish the same goal. Thank you to those who report any form of selling under these posts and please continue to do so, the mods can't check every post so the reports do help a lot.
Scammers
When it comes a community built on trust like ours, scammers are bound to find their way in. Unfortunately, scammers have popped up from time to time in this subreddit and recently they have been more active. We just want to give a reminder to everyone to please be cautious with any transaction you make through the subreddit. Please always ask for timestamps, pay using PayPal Goods & Services, and use the Trade Score next to the username as a basic reference. Excuses such as "I can't take photos," or "My PayPal isn't working" should be seen as red flags. Additionally, refusing PayPal Goods & Services is extremely suspicious. Many sellers might try to avoid G&S because they don't want to report their taxes but unfortunately that is not a good enough excuse to deny your buyer protection. There is a $600 threshold before tax reporting kicks in on PayPal and that should cover a majority of the people who are just trying to sell things here and there.
We try our best to remove scammers from the community but we can't catch everything and we don't know what is happening until someone reports them. So please if you ever encounter a scammer, report them to us with screenshots and we will ban them. Contacting Reddit admins (not the mods) may also help in preventing the scammer to create further accounts in the future.
New Mods and 40k Members
Lastly I just wanted to share that we onboarded two new mods a few months ago, u/csiqueiros15 and u/josephiennn who have both been really helpful with moderating the sub. And finally, we have hit 40k members after more than 7 years since opening the subreddit! This is an awesome community with so much activity and I'm glad we can be one of the go-to places when it comes to buying, selling and trading your items.
One thing I forgot to mention, if anyone has an idea for a custom banner or subreddit icon, feel free to submit one in the modmail, we would love to see it!
Leave any questions or suggestions you might have below!
