Email through cl or publicly giving your cell info? Or list calls only, no text Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
Email through CL. Then after I figure out the person isn't a scam I will give my cell number if needed.
Another way to avoid scams is by posting your phone number by text and digits. (two 4 eight - six one 0 - nine 1 eight 4) Scammers usually use a auto fill system so they are not around if they ever get caught.
Guy at work did that with a pontoon he's trying to sell and he is getting the scams too. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
I tried selling a jet ski a couple years aog for 1000 and the guy offered me 2200 to hold it for him and wanted to paypal the money amd have someone pick it up lol. I told him it was only wortg 1200 but it needed some work then he offered me amother 100? Idiots Sent from my SCH-R970 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
The sad part is that people are falling for it. My brother knows a guy that "bought" a back hoe for $6500. Needless to say, he never received the equipment. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
I had a customer come and express mail a package to nigeria, and then return 2 hours later to retrieve the item and said it was a scam and it was thru paypal.
spotting the scams is pretty easy; spotting the jackwagon no-shows is something else. What kind of sick twisted lonely scumbag gets their kicks contacting you, asking you to set aside time for them, and then not showing or even calling? Happens all the time when I'm selling jeep stuff online. Honestly; about 1/2 of "appointments" I set up are no call/no shows. That's why I try to set up multiple appts. at/about the same time. I've had guys get in a bidding war in my driveway - kind of funny. That being said, I've also made $9,000 jeep transactions on CL without a hiccup. Luck of the draw.
It's pretty dang easy to spot scams, most often they'll say they're out of the country. Ive never been scammed and sold tons of things. Just make sure the person will meet you and if it's a big ticket item, don't take a check, take cash or transfer. If it's tons of cash meet outside a bank.
You too? I also have a distant relative that died who apparently had some money in an overseas account! -Bill
Are you providing the carrier or do I need to line that up.:D Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
Always email through CL first. I buy and sell on CL all the time. occasionally I get a BS scammer. But out of the 100's of transactions I have made I could could the BS responses on one hand The other day I got one tryin to buy a lab pup. it was pretty humorus really
I've only bought off CL one time. Got a GoPro camera for $100 but felt like I was doing a drug deal at the grocery store parking lot. I even wrote down the license plate number before approaching the guy. I made him turn on the camera and show me it worked before giving him the money (after he handed me the camera). I saw in the local news where a guy met several women individually to purchase their Louis Vuitton hand bags for $1500 and when they handed him the bag to look at, he took off with them. I'm old school and don't like the Craig's List thing. :D
