This is becoming pretty common lately. If an #NFT is part of a scam (was stolen from the owner’s wallet), the legit owner reports this to OpenSea which reports the item as “suspicious” and prevents the new owner, likely a scammer, from selling it.
This is NOT something I like and in my opinion, this approach should be avoided.
Reasons:
- other marketplaces like Looksrare and X2Y2 don’t do that so that the item can be easily sold
- the new buyer, will likely buy an item that can’t be sold on OpenSea, but they are not guilty of anything, so this is not fair
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scammers are not affected at all and will likely continue to scam others
- this is not great for LR and X2Y2, since those will likely be seen as “the marketplaces of stolen items”, not great for their reputation.
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collections owners should complain because it removes some of their items from sale without any reason
