Nowadays there's quite a number of kids selling pins. There are 2 key things for buying a pin from a small thread.
1.) If you see someone selling a pin that's a newcomer DON'T GO FIRST.
2.) Check their join date, people with quite recent join dates are more likely to scam you then people who have been a member of sythe for a creditable amount of time.

Your best bet for buying a pin is to go to a reputable thread that has many pages of successful transactions. (Yes we know it may take awhile)

Any haters, i know this might not be in the right section or maybe off topic. But I need to get something out here after being scammed weeks ago and coming back to see the same scammers still at work but a new accounts.

 

Common sense, really.

 

It is common sense but sometimes having obvious things put into words helps.
Here's an example http://sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1069650