Online Wine Auction Help

Protect yourself from fraud by looking out for suspicious activity on WineCommune. WineCommune works hard to keep fraudulent sellers from posting lots on WineCommune, but your vigilence is required to ensure WineCommune stays fraud free.

The following factors, alone or in conjunction with others, may indicate a lot is fraudulent:

• Always check a sellers feedback. The more transactions with positive feedbacks, the better the seller. If a seller has few transactions or has negative feedbacks be wary.
• If a sellers has fewer than 10 positive feedbacks the city, state and zipcode that they registered with will be posted on the lot form. If the seller asks you to send payment to an address that does not match that city, state and zip, you should ask for an explaination.
• Avoid paying by wire transfer for lots offered by sellers with no or few feedbacks. If you can, pay by credit card because many cards offer insurance or reimbursement for transactions over $50.
• Lots that are too good to be true often are. Be wary when the price is far below a wine's average price.
• Check out the Federal Trade Commission's Secrets of Success for Internet auctions at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/gonealrt.htm.

Still unsure? Contact us! http://www.winecommune.com/help/contactus.cfm We will be happy to review an auction to ensure it is legitimate.