Quite a flexible / easy platform for all
When I read a number of critical reviews (majority of one stars) who encountered unpleasant experience, I could feel how they feel. I registered quite recently and Mudah was my first place to sell my items online. And I used to be one of those who had the same complaints and sending feedback emails to Mudah to reflect what I experienced. Like some of the reviewers here I also encountered similar cases (my personal opinion based on experience) when I newly registered and posted the very first adv. within hours a numbers of oversea "buyers" will keep sending message showing interest and keep talking to you and it really seemed they are "genuinely" at the beginning they were so keen to buy your stuffs without much negotiation. These numbers some were as far as California-registered when I checked their area codes online, while some are locally registered and residing here or Singapore but they are mostly foreign nationals in South East Asia regions targeting on inexperience Mudah users. I suspect they monitor Mudah platform for newly registered users and get those inexperience be hooked on? They usually will request they will arrange a shipping company to come to your doorstep to collect the item / items by sending you an email attached with link. Please DON'T click on these or you will be falling trapped. And I almost became a victim for my first post and luckily I had prior to check with one of my friends and he told me what should be taken notes of and be avoided. With a second thought, I quickly "woke up" I was dealing with a group of scammers at the same time and immediately blocked the contacts to avoid further annoyances. Since then, I only received mainly the local buyers and successfully sold off some of my items when dealing with the right approach and the right people. I am not saying then some (including myself) could handle and get rid of scammers completely, but since this is a free-trading platform which is comparatively flexible and easy to navigate. Bear in mind the transactions in Mudah platform is easier and a lot more flexible. You can get a trading done with some messages / calls to lock in the final agreement of purchase between buyer and seller pretty quickly. Seller - buyer free to interact without going thru a middle agency to monitor each transaction / payment. Given the flexibility of its facilities (you can publish a wide range of products at ease), at the same time of the given freedom of trade, so be it seller / buyer must be practicing cautions when dealing with each other. For private selling, COD will be the safest but this limits primarily to meet up locally as it's quite impossible to meet up crossing state as it would be a waste of time and money when the deal would be unsuccessful. This is one of the drawbacks of the platform I personally feel. I give 4 stars as I feel MUDAH should in the registration page to put in some ALERT notes to highlight in "RED" to catch new user attention the risk , the scammer style of tricking new users. Upon registration, in the confirmation email again should make some statements on top of email again to remind what should be noted to get rid of scamming. We can't avoid scammers completely, but being cautiously vigilant will help to get rid of them safely.