by HannahsDad
Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:30 pm
TriCell Safe Transactions at https://tricell-transactions.com
Their “team” has been copied from here: http://www.i-soldit.com/about/who-is-isold-it.asp
1437 West 190th Street, Gardena, CA 90248
Fax: (818) 923-1401
They are adamant that neither Western Union nor Moneygram are used but they do not explain how money changes hands. Unless of course you provide your credit card details at registration - in which case their Privacy Policy is interesting: https://tricell-transactions.com/privacy_policy,html
Domain registered 4th December 2013 for 1 year only.
Just another escrow scam then.TriCell Safe Transactions specialize in online consignment services for businesses, individuals, and non-profit groups. The original store opened in Gardena, California in December, 2005 to help people sell their quality merchandise in the eBay marketplace and later in 2007 we extended in Canada and United Kingdom and added Craigslist as a new marketplace. TriCell Safe Transactions makes it easy by doing all the work and sending the seller a check in the mail.
TriCell Safe Transactions was co-founded by David Lozano and Erik Holcomb in December, 2004. David and Erik had both recently finished their landscaping seasons, and and were pondering what the future had in store. They were buying and selling on eBay just for fun when a mutual friend stopped by one day and asked them to sell some musical equipment for him. He offered them a percentage of the sales, and after several successful eBay listings and a few dollars in their pockets the idea was born.
TriCell Safe Transactions was started with a $400 investment and a $10 ad in The Seven Days local weekly newspaper. That first spring and summer every weekend was spent at garage sales searching for items to sell on eBay. Sales and advertising steadily increased, and by the fall of 2004 they had enough people coming through the door to keep them busy around the clock. The Company has now sold millions of dollars worth of merchandise on eBay and Craigslist, and runs one of the largest drop-off stores in the country. In 2008 alone, the Company sent over $250,000 worth of checks to Vermont sellers.
The first TriCell Safe Transactions employee, Hunter Hard, was hired in February, 2005 to write auctions and perform client intakes, and a second employee was added in April, 2005 to pack and ship boxes. Over the years the Company has fine tuned their consignment system, streamlined store operations, and developed a custom software program.
TriCell Safe Transactions was created because we were tired as buyers and sellers of not having a way to control our transactions. Other payment services and methods would take someones hard earned money and give it directly to the stranger without any way of checking if the transaction is legit. That's why there's over $183 million reported internet fraud to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). In 2005 according to a Gartner Group report, they found that only 1% of people actually report the fraud. 1%! How much is that other 99%? We estimate in the billions and it's our job to make sure that number goes down.
At TriCell Safe Transactions, we feel it's smarter to verify the buyer and their money on behalf of the seller and provide the buyer a way to approve the item before the seller receives the payment. So next time you win an auction on eBay or find a great deal on Craigslist, use TriCell Safe Transactions to pay and you can control the transaction.
Their “team” has been copied from here: http://www.i-soldit.com/about/who-is-isold-it.asp
1437 West 190th Street, Gardena, CA 90248
Fax: (818) 923-1401
They are adamant that neither Western Union nor Moneygram are used but they do not explain how money changes hands. Unless of course you provide your credit card details at registration - in which case their Privacy Policy is interesting: https://tricell-transactions.com/privacy_policy,html
Domain registered 4th December 2013 for 1 year only.
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