Selling bike and this just seems fishy
Road Warrior
Joined: Jan 2010
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From: WireGrass, AL
Perfectly legit scam most of the time the link provided takes you a phony site at the best or starts installing a virus at the worst. I've been offered more once that turned out to be legit but being the dumb !@#!@# I'm I only took the asking price.
Road Master
Joined: Nov 2010
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From: Rhode Island
Cowboy- STAY AWAY--- Its a SCAM!!!!!!
I already dealt with this guy and got Partialy scammed..Hes a spanish immigrant..He sent me a check so I thought whats the big deal..Sounds ok..I went to the bank and deposited the check..The next day I went by the bank and they told me it was a fake..They gave me what was left in my account and escorted me out and told me never to return again!!..Theres more to the story but in a nutshell thats it..I spoke to the guy who overnighted through Fedex the check to me and he was Spanish!!!!
Stay AWAY!!!
I already dealt with this guy and got Partialy scammed..Hes a spanish immigrant..He sent me a check so I thought whats the big deal..Sounds ok..I went to the bank and deposited the check..The next day I went by the bank and they told me it was a fake..They gave me what was left in my account and escorted me out and told me never to return again!!..Theres more to the story but in a nutshell thats it..I spoke to the guy who overnighted through Fedex the check to me and he was Spanish!!!!
Stay AWAY!!!
Road Warrior
Joined: Sep 2011
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well you are the seller and you decide how you want to be paid.
If he can afford to pay more than he can also send the guy first with a check, then again after it has cleared and money is confirmed in your bank account he can come and pick the thing up.
but in reality, when it's too good to be true...
If he can afford to pay more than he can also send the guy first with a check, then again after it has cleared and money is confirmed in your bank account he can come and pick the thing up.
but in reality, when it's too good to be true...
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Cruiser
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The saga continues
Its reliable and easy to use PayPal. I insisted on PayPal because i don't have any access to give my private courier cash also i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account, as i have my bank a/c attached to it... You can get the setup registration www.paypal.com and email me your PayPal email account.. for example my own PayPal email account is pmicheal06@gmail.com. You email me yours asap.. Thanks !!
Its reliable and easy to use PayPal. I insisted on PayPal because i don't have any access to give my private courier cash also i don't have internet banking, but i can pay from my PayPal account, as i have my bank a/c attached to it... You can get the setup registration www.paypal.com and email me your PayPal email account.. for example my own PayPal email account is pmicheal06@gmail.com. You email me yours asap.. Thanks !!
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Too funny. These guys don't even try to be legit. If he had just tried to offer $500 bucks less, then agree to the original price and ask if Paypal was okay, then it would seem on the up and up. All this offering more than the asking price and private courier crap shows how dumb these people really are.
This is too easy. You have a bike for sale. If someone shows up with cash in an amount that you deem reasonable for the bike, then sign the title over. If they want to make excuses why they can't come up with cash, then they need to shop somewhere else.
This is too easy. You have a bike for sale. If someone shows up with cash in an amount that you deem reasonable for the bike, then sign the title over. If they want to make excuses why they can't come up with cash, then they need to shop somewhere else.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 359
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From: USA
YEP...came off Craigs list...word for word. I messed with them back... I told them to send the guy to pick up the bike...told them a place to meet me even GPS coordinates. Said when they arrive and just before they load the bike I will email my paypal account information and verifiy it on my smart phone. Then they could load the bike and leave with it.
They come up with all kinds of excuses not to come after the bike. I also add charges like sales tax and registration transfer fees...around $5000 extra. IF they come in person all fees will be waved.
I kept them going a few days.
For folks like that...I take their email addresses (which often changes in the series of emails) and go to USA.gov and sign them up for a ton news letters. You know FBI, marshals service, IRS, dept of justice, immigration. I look for all the email news letters I can find and put that email address in. Some of these email addresses they use are free and very limited on capacity.
I will bet if you check...that paypal account does not exsist.
They come up with all kinds of excuses not to come after the bike. I also add charges like sales tax and registration transfer fees...around $5000 extra. IF they come in person all fees will be waved.
I kept them going a few days.
For folks like that...I take their email addresses (which often changes in the series of emails) and go to USA.gov and sign them up for a ton news letters. You know FBI, marshals service, IRS, dept of justice, immigration. I look for all the email news letters I can find and put that email address in. Some of these email addresses they use are free and very limited on capacity.
I will bet if you check...that paypal account does not exsist.
Last edited by 12limited; Jan 18, 2012 at 05:20 PM.