Thread: Is this website a scam?
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Old 05-08-2009, 11:01 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by hybernation View Post
When you pre-order ANYTHING through Amazon (and most anywhere) they do NOT charge your card until the order has shipped. They *MIGHT* do a 30-day (max) hold on the amount, just to make sure your card is legit. Is the same true of your site, "David" ?

Isn't is ILLEGAL to take money for a product you don't have, way prior to you shipping it?
He's running charges through PayPal. It will immediately take the funds from the customer. No question about that. He's not using a real merchant account where he could simply just do an authorization to verify funds and then perform the charge later.
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