Did I get scammed?

I don`t think you got scammed. unless you went through with a transaction you just replied to an email!

Dutch_12078 wrote:
I "played" with one of those obvious scam listings on CL a couple of years ago. The ad was for 2003 Prevost custom conversion at a super bargain price, with variations of the same ad scattered among a dozen different city listings according to the search app I used. The real giveaway was when I inquired about inspecting the coach and was told that the seller was stationed overseas, and the coach was "crated up and ready to ship" from a trucking company warehouse. A crated up Prevost? I don't think so... :)

Oh, and I found the origin of the pictures on a real Prevost resale site with the rig's "Sold" listing at almost 10 times the price in the CL ads.

You snooze, you loose. :@

I find that legit sellers will list the town on city in which the item is located. If there is no city on an item of which I am interested I will generally ignore it.

beemerphile1 wrote:
Define "scam". You sent an email, you did NOT send any money = you could not have possibly been scammed.

No, but he could have been POTENTIALLY scammed.

Define "scam". You sent an email, you did NOT send any money = you could not have possibly been scammed.

We find this same scam in the real estate world. They'll list a cute house for a ridiculously low rent or sales price (moreso with rent), and try to scam people to send money for a deposit to hold, etc.

I "played" with one of those obvious scam listings on CL a couple of years ago. The ad was for 2003 Prevost custom conversion at a super bargain price, with variations of the same ad scattered among a dozen different city listings according to the search app I used. The real giveaway was when I inquired about inspecting the coach and was told that the seller was stationed overseas, and the coach was "crated up and ready to ship" from a trucking company warehouse. A crated up Prevost? I don't think so... :)

Oh, and I found the origin of the pictures on a real Prevost resale site with the rig's "Sold" listing at almost 10 times the price in the CL ads.

wa8yxm wrote:
The Craig's list offer may be legit or not.

Often people selling a product will use a "Stock" photo they got from somewhere else instead of taking their own picture....

Kind of like the personal sites where the photo on the site is way more handsom - beautiful than the person posting it.. Or much younger.

Except that there are 2 craigslist ads saying the exact same thing (this just drove cross country X miles, has Y miles, etc.) - not similar, exact same text. One ad is in Tampa, the other is in Chicago, and the Tampa ad is using a set of photos.

If it was a lazy bloke using "stock" photos, they wouldn't have gone out and stolen an additional set of photos - they would have just used the same set on the Tampa ad. They also would have found a set of stolen (they weren't stock) that they didn't have to crop, darken, etc. to remove the copyright info on the image.

I think it is safe to say that neither Craigslist ad is legitimate - that they are looking for folks to send a quick down payment and then disappear with the non-existent RV.

The Craig's list offer may be legit or not.

Often people selling a product will use a "Stock" photo they got from somewhere else instead of taking their own picture....

Kind of like the personal sites where the photo on the site is way more handsom - beautiful than the person posting it.. Or much younger.

I like how they always have the unit in front of a McMansion.