Did I get scammed?

[Wingcamper]

I have been watching class c's on craigslist for a while. Yesterday, I saw a 2006 with 157,000 miles for $7000.00. Curious if it had a bad motor or some other major issue, I sent a message through Craigslist wanting information about it. It is located in Chicago, about 2 hours form me. I have had no response to the email. Today I see a different picture of the same class c in Tampa Florida. Tonight I see the Same class c on Ebay in California for $22,000.00 with no reserve and no bids. Did the Craigslist ad some how scam me. Are they after my email address or are they baiting me for more personal information?

[dodge_guy]

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

[1968mooney]

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. :@

[d3500ram]

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.

[toedtoes]

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.

[beemerphile1]

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

[JAC1982]

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.

[Dutch_12078]

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.

[toedtoes]

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.

[wa8yxm]

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.

[bucky]

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

[turbojimmy]

Someone probably just stole the picture for their own ad. I had someone do that to me with a limo I was selling. It looked like he really had a limo for sale, but figured the pics of mine were close enough. I asked him to take them down. He ignored me. I flagged it on CL and they ignored me. Oh well.

[jmckelvy]

toedtoes wrote:
There's something definitely off here.

The ebay listing is by a dealer.

If you look at the photos on the craigslist Chicago listing, they appear to have been cropped to remove the "Clear Choice Motors" logos on the images.

chicago

The craigslist Tampa listing looks like the interior is a different rig, but the text is the exact same as the Chicago listing - I'm guessing they stole the image from another website.

tampa

I would contact the ebay seller and forward them the links. I'd also report both to craigslist as potential fraudulent ads.

I don't think that Chicago has any palm trees either!

[time2roll]

People are lazy and will copy pictures all the time.
Still if the offer to sell is legit the seller will give a phone number and receive your call.
Must see in person before any money or personal info exchanges.

[Supercharged]

Wingcamper wrote:
I have been watching class c's on craigslist for a while. Yesterday, I saw a 2006 with 157,000 miles for $7000.00. Curious if it had a bad motor or some other major issue, I sent a message through Craigslist wanting information about it. It is located in Chicago, about 2 hours form me. I have had no response to the email. Today I see a different picture of the same class c in Tampa Florida. Tonight I see the Same class c on Ebay in California for $22,000.00 with no reserve and no bids. Did the Craigslist ad some how scam me. Are they after my email address or are they baiting me for more personal information?

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