Genuine Redusers are great. But the secondhand camera market has definitely now attracted scammers, thieves and other criminal attention.
ALWAYS DO YOUR HOMEWORK on ANY buyers or sellers - it's usually not that hard to work out if someone is genuine as their Reduser history, posts and/or Ebay presence is a fairly good indicator. Also ask for details about items for sale, photographs of the actual items (with a name of the seller in shot on a piece of paper if really unsure), contact details and address (which I google). Their email address often includes their company website which I check out. Sometimes if I need more reassurance I'll ask if it's OK to buy by cash on collection (doesn't matter if you're abroad - just say you have a friend local to the buyer who will be coming to get it) - if not then it doesn't prove anything either way, but if the seller says "Sure, no problem" that's a good sign.
Of course PayPal is a Buyers friend, but heavily biased against Sellers!
ALWAYS DO YOUR HOMEWORK on ANY buyers or sellers - it's usually not that hard to work out if someone is genuine as their Reduser history, posts and/or Ebay presence is a fairly good indicator. Also ask for details about items for sale, photographs of the actual items (with a name of the seller in shot on a piece of paper if really unsure), contact details and address (which I google). Their email address often includes their company website which I check out. Sometimes if I need more reassurance I'll ask if it's OK to buy by cash on collection (doesn't matter if you're abroad - just say you have a friend local to the buyer who will be coming to get it) - if not then it doesn't prove anything either way, but if the seller says "Sure, no problem" that's a good sign.
Of course PayPal is a Buyers friend, but heavily biased against Sellers!