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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pete_gamby" data-source="post: 3600942" data-attributes="member: 76050">Just my two penn'rth...High price ticket items (like alpha binos) would be a classic target for credit card chargeback fraud e.g. where the card payment is reversed as a fraudulent transaction by the legitimate cardholder AFTER the goods are received by the fraudsters (usually having been collected for them by a courier or taxi). It is possible that RSPB has been hit by a spate of these and doesn't have systems in place (or the resources at present) to properly verify all transactions.One of our dealers explained to me that they have been regularly targeted over the years by organised "gangs" from overseas attempting to buy alpha-priced gear. The intimation was that once the "gang" gets a transaction through the dealers system, several more would follow - with optics costing £2,000 plus each that would get expensive for the dealer very quickly.Relatively lower value items such as the Viking and RSPB branded products are not as attractive due to the need to purchase and resell many more to generate cash from the stolen items.Cheers, Pete</blockquote>