Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:35:12 -0500
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nice Westy in Kentucky
Comments: To: Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <c56d3710911211504x14259c6djbc1c3f7fa16f5e58@mail.gmail.com>
              (Mike South's message of "Sat\, 21 Nov 2009 17\:04\:18 -0600")
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Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM> writes:

> I thought it might be a good idea to pose as a mark--ask what it would
> take to ship it, has he had a mechanic look at it (but don't ask to
> have my own mechanic look at it), etc.  Somewhere in there ask whether
> the handle to the crank that lifts the top up and down is in good
> shape.  If he says it is, we know he doesn't have one :).

Nice idea, but I doubt it would come to that.  The scams pretty much all
involve sending some amount of money in advance, or having to cash a
money order and wire the seller some amount of it back (the money order
turns out to be a forgery), etc, often with a complicated tale of woe
designed to evoke feeling of sympathy and trust.

Craigslist has some stuff to watch out for here...

  http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL