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Victor

Sweden

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NetEase

Data mining site

Buff is owned by a chinese company. Which does mean they are required by law to share information about users with the CCP. Though that isn't my main issue with this, but rather its how they inconvenience you and their sellers by trying to force you to get their mobile app so they can gather information from your phone. If you make a purchase from Buff, you will be given two options: 1. Send the offer for the item to the seller (ONLY AVAILABLE FOR MOBILE APP USERS) 2. The seller has to send you the offer, creating more work for them. Untop of that, some sellers can have it set to automatically decline offers asking the seller to send the trade offer to the buyer. Something you can't know if the seller has on, without making the purchase. So if they decline, you have 5 minutes to download the app and send the offer, or the trade will be cancelled. Oh, and the icing on the cake is that if you "Make too many purchases where you don't go through with it, you'll get trade locked" So to summarize: -If you don't want your mobile data stolen, you have to take a gamble on purchasing an item, because you don't know if the seller is even willing to send it to you. If they decline, you can get penalized for it when the site isn't being transparent with you so that you can prevent causing the thing that you'll be penalized for? What?! Its at a point where i don't bother, because if i add money to buy a skin i see, i can't know if i'll even be allowed to buy it. Because sorry, i have a hard time thinking that my PC with the processing power x10 that of a damn phone, is unable to process sending a trade offer to someone. You want me to get the app to leech information from the phone, because on PC there's many safety precautions someone can take or that are locked per default so that they get no info out of you. They want your data, there's no other excuse. Buff is large but that's in due to quantity in items for sale, and the chinese peoples' willingness to always be the lowest price to make a sale. They are willing to race to the bottom until there's no margins left in the sale for them, so long as they get the sale. Buff is certainly not large due to their "quality" Because that part of it is about on-par with Temu and Wish garbage.

2024-06-24Helpful 3
WAXPEER

Good site, but lacking on a few popular features.

(This is an edited review, my old one was 2 stars but has since changed when more context as well as help from the site staff was given. Original review is included at the bottom for context) The site is easy to navigate, has a fairly good assortment of skins and other items being sold, accepts a multitude of payment options. The support staff of the site are very kind, quick to respond and helpful. As i initially joined the site to make a purchase that i was unable to, due to a site update that was ongoing at the time. They did however give a compensation to rectify the mistake and that i was unable to purchase the weapon i was after from their site at the time which was very kind of them. If there is some criticism that'll remain which prevents the site from being a 5/5 it would be the lack of some features i've grown accustomed to. Mainly inspecting weapons in-game. The support reply said that you can click to generate a screenshot of the skin, which is true. But it only captures the sides of the weapon. Many weapon skins out there have wear to them which are visible on things like the ironsights, barrel or stock. Not visible from a centered side view screenshot. I do however believe this is because the site is only one i've come across so far where you can't outright click on a sellers' profile and find them on steam. Which from a seller standpoint and "anonymity" is quite nice if you fear getting a target on your account if you sell something really expensive. They do have a safeguard too in that if the item isn't delivered to you as a buyer, you'll automatically be refunded. So it appears you're protected in case the seller is a bad actor. Another feature that is missing, but that isn't always available on other sites either is the float being told to you if its among the top floats in the world. Not a deal breaker if the feature isn't there, but. I like knowing if a skin that might be pricier than others is because its among the best in the world, rather than me having to manually check it up on CSfloat. It was a rough start, but everything after that has been really good with Waxpeer. So i certainly wouldn't mind making more purchases from it in the future. -------------Old Review------------ Hadn't used Waxpeer before, and still -kind of- haven't. I look for skins via CSGOSkins.gg and there one i was after was sold cheaply on Waxpeer. I'm used to jumping between sites to make purchases to save a few bucks on skins and i'm sure i'm not alone on that. So i sign in to my steam, no problem and go to deposit funds via card to make the purchase. They understandably ask that i enter an e-mail and verify it to make the deposit. So i type in a disposal e-mail i have in case it gets sold to spam vendors. Aaaaand ...nothing.. I don't get a verification code. So i ask them to resend it. Nothing happens. Resend again. This continued for 10 minutes with me never getting any code on my e-mail. I checked the spam, nothing. I checked the inbox constantly to see if the icon quickly flash to indicate a new e-mail before it either filters or deletes it, never happened. A friend tried on his e-mail and got nothing. I tried on another burner mail and got nothing. So to make a purchase you need to verify an e-mail which isn't physically possible because it isn't sending you any verification code. Great system. Probably a bug or something hence why i don't want to go as low as 1 star, i'm sure that -if- the site would've worked, it would've been fine but i likely won't bother in the future if a skin gets sold via Waxpeer to bother trying to make a purchase here. I also deduct points because they don't have a option to view skins sold on the site in-game. Or if they do, they've done their damnedest to hide it from people. But, the story had a happy ending because the seller who was trying to sell the skin on Waxpeer put it up for sale on a competitor site. More expensive than it was when originally listed on Waxpeer, but still the lowest priced at the time. So the seller apparently didn't want to use the site to sell his skins anymore.

2024-06-01