Airsoft-Hub back

[Austeyr]

Seems like "Airsoft-Hub" is back from the dead after they shut it down because they couldn't handle the scammers

Buy & Sell Used Airsoft Equipment - AirsoftHub

Airsoft Hub provides a free, safe and legal way to sell your used airsoft guns and second hand airsoft equipment to other players.

www.airsoft-hub.com

Interested to see what's changed and how it will be different going forwards

 

[mec]

Hopefully do more regarding scammers than "Used Airsoft" which is fuck all.....

 

[Austeyr]

Seems like they want people to eventually pay to be a "trusted seller", doubt that would deter scammers though really?

 

[Galvatron]

Hopefully do more regarding scammers than "Used Airsoft" which is fuck all.....

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In his defence, he did more about scammers than Used Airsoft. The problem wasn't just scammers, there was a lot of abuse on the site by dickheads trying to turn it to a shock site.

 

[Cannonfodder]

Seems like "Airsoft-Hub" is back from the dead after they shut it down because they couldn't handle the scammers

Buy & Sell Used Airsoft Equipment - AirsoftHub

Airsoft Hub provides a free, safe and legal way to sell your used airsoft guns and second hand airsoft equipment to other players.

www.airsoft-hub.com

Interested to see what's changed and how it will be different going forwards

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From a quick look there's fuck all difference.

 

[-davo-]

Seems like they want people to eventually pay to be a "trusted seller", doubt that would deter scammers though really?

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You have to verify yourself to be able to post a listing
so eventually sellers will just have to pay to verify in order to be able to sell

depends what the cost to verify will be
potentially a small price to pay for the ability to scam people easier - cause now you're "verified"

Looks like you can report listings and users. I would hope, if found to be dodgy/scammers, then that would result in account bans
then they just have to pay to verify again, i guess?
since they "don't store veriication details", what's to stop them using the same id to repeatedly sign up and "verify"?

 

[Tackle]

Lol, they've got one verified seller, if you fancy a road trip to Basingstoke

 

[Cannonfodder]

Lol, they've got one verified seller, if you fancy a road trip to Basingstoke

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On the plus side it'll give us plenty more material for Mack's

 

[-davo-]

Judging by the use of AI content in their FB posts
I'm thinking the new website might be a little "vibe-coded"
Certainly has a off-feeling to it, but maybe that's because it's a different layout etc than the old one



Side note: Real funny how everything went from
"oooh use all this AI to enhance your content"
to
"nah, AI bad, we're gonna need to make sure you know this was AI, see we're cool"

 

[mec]

Excatly, they will just pay it to gain trust,

In his defence, he did more about scammers than Used Airsoft. The problem wasn't just scammers, there was a lot of abuse on the site by dickheads trying to turn it to a shock site.

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Yes agreed, Previous Airsoft hub actually tried do something about scammers, where as I meant Used Airsoft does absolutely nothing, about the multiple adverts on there, on a daily basis