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The most anonymous way possible to buy on eBay? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know eBay is horrible and so is PayPal, but after OpenBazaar shut down, I don't know where else to look.

I'm looking to buy a very specific PlayStation 3 model, which it seems I can only get on eBay (CECHPxx, for those wondering).

The issue is that in the EU a new directive was passed called PSD2. This means that whenever you want to purchase something online, you have to use your bank's app which uses a form of OTP and I believe, your fingerprint. To me that sound horrible and I don't plan on downloading the app, because it's a giant pain in the ass to use. What are my other payment options for eBay that don't require a freaking app to use?

Alternate question: is there an alternative to eBay that takes PaySafe cards or crypto?

And apologies if this is the wrong sub, I honestly don't know where to post this question.

EDIT: I should mention I'm not expecting complete or even partial anonymity, just a payment method that doesn't involve taking my biometrics.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

This gonna sound lame but check if you can buy the object with cash hand-to-hand first. Then, if it's not possible, contact seller to see if he would accept cryptos.

(That's how I would do, I do not know if this is the best way to do though)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

contact seller to see if he would accept cryptos

I think that that is against the tos of eBay but more importantly (even if we know it isn’t) it looks from the sellers side like the setup to a scam :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I didn't think about the tos :/ and yeah it seems that sellers are pretty retiscent to use cryptos