Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:57:52 -0400
Reply-To: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
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From: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Subject: Re: now they have even vanagon scams - out of nigeria too?
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I say you offer him a straight-up trade for a show-quality Triumph, which
is registered in Tunisia, but currently resides in New Zealand. I suspect
he'll go away quickly enough.
At 03:37 PM 8/25/2006 -0700, Florian Speier wrote:
>hi list,
>
>so this morning i found a great westy on craigslist east bay - 1990,
>64950miles, great condition. for $6700! So of course I email the owner,
>would like to see the car. I asked this list for someone to run the carfax,
>got one within an hour, and it looks fine.
>then i decide to email the seller a couple extra questions and craigslist
>tells me the posting is no more. i look it up and it says deleted by
>craigslist staff.......
>I am slightly frustrated and check ebay for current westys...... and voila
>http://tinyurl.com/gte79
>
>there is the same car, same vin.
>hmmmmm, thats weird. and its located in georgia. so i guess some person
>copied the text and fotos and is trying something bad...... no further
>action on my side. and voila, what shows up in my mailbox just now? the
>following email: *
>
>*Hi there,
>Thank you for contacting me regarding my car.
>First of all i want to tell you that the car is in perfect condition, and
>the price includes all the shipping costs and insurance so you will not
>have to pay any extra charges.The car has a Clean Title wich will come
>along with it. I moved to Sweden because i was sent here with
>work. The car is in a perfect condition.It's a great car, I am devastated
>that I
>have to sell it but I have to pay too much money to register it here,so I
>decide to sell it. The car it is still registered in States but curently is
>located in Malmo , Sweden.
>The car will be shipped with Lufthansa Air Cargo, and will be on your door
>in 5 max 6 days.
>For our protection i will use for payment Craigslist ( a third party wich
>hold the payment until u receive the car ) . If you want to continue,please
>send me your full name and your shipping address ( and also phone # ) so I
>let Craigslist know that you are interested .You will receive an email from
>them instructing you about how to send payment and they'll release the funds
>to me only after you receive and inspect the car.When i will have the
>Craigslist confirmation,i will ship the car to you.
>I think that this is a fair way to make business and I hope that you will
>agree. I don't touch your money until you receive and inspect the car.
>Hoping that I have kept your attention and your interest is still on, I look
>forward for any questions that you might have regarding the car.
>Regards
>
>
>
>hmmm, yeah man. i dont think so. what bugs me most is that for once i used
>my real private email adress, not my groups or shopping mail adress. well i
>wonder how to annoy that guy best now. maybe i will play along and send him
>false western union numbers or something to make him run?
>totally ruined my morning.
>flo
>*
>
>*
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