I am selling my Outfitter Apex. Beware of scammers!

Ya' think?

The most common theory about these types of responses is these "your item" replies are email harvesters. They try to get you to reply outside of craigslist's anonymous response sytem then they have a valid email to sell to spammers.

I use craiglist fairly often to both buy and sell, I always put something in the listing about "emails without specifics about the item for sale will not be answered". Real buyers always understand and comply.

to play it safe, I have an email that I only use with Craigslist (I buy and sell quite a bit of stuff there). It gets a ridiculous amount of spam! I've had only positive transactions on CL, my rules are simple. No negotiating over email, you want to see it, come see it. If it's possible (ie, fits in my van, or is a car/motorcycle) I meet at the local park and ride. I really don't want most of these folks knowing where I live! yes, I get stood up once in a while, oh well. And of course, cash in person, whether buying or selling. No exceptions. No one has robbed me at gunpoint yet. :B

You had to 'do a search' to figure out it was a scam.

He got what he wanted......your email address.

I had one tell me that the 37 foot motorhome would be shipped across Canada, arriving in 3 days from Labrador in February to Vancouver Island, all for no charge of course.

Oh ... ALL of that sounds so familiar ... I think someone else posted (within the last month) about a similar experience on Craigs list, the Oil Rig, someone to come get it, asking about the condition...

My opinion, that guy on the oil rig has way to much time on his hands! I suppose it gets pretty lonely on an oil rig!

was looking at your Outfitter on Craigslist but did not see the model year.
looks new or near new, so why are you selling it?

Old-Biscuit wrote:
You had to 'do a search' to figure out it was a scam.

He got what he wanted......your email address.

Unless the O.P. was replying through Craigslist, which we all HOPE he was- O.P.?

Still, when I get those things I always search the address first and toss it if it doesn't check out. Others like to engage the scammers just for fun...

You Guys are missing all the fun........

I went to a barbecue one at of our friends house this summer and took 12 certified checks amounting anywhere from $400-$1800 from those scammers.

If you just play them along for a while they will send you a certified check by UPS overnight or FedEx overnight for the amount.

Then you email them and tell him if it is sent me $5.00 Cash and kept the other $5.00 would be $5.00 ahead.

We roasted those checks over the barbecue fire and had a blast.

Lynnsr

PS this winter I have some more items I'm going to sell on craigslist, I get the certified checks on about half.

A few years ago, I was selling my son's Honda 100 dirt bike on CL. I noted that the sale would be

*no trades
*cash only. No lowballers, I know what this bike is worth.
*local only, no shipping

Had a few "inquiries" that were obvious overseas scammers, I ignored them. One response was an offer to trade for a TV that I could buy, new, at about 1/3 of the price of the bike. I responded back that, as I mentioned in the ad, I was not interested in trades. The "ahem" came back and offered me the same amount of cash as the TV was worth, again, far less than the worth of the bike.

It took all that I had not to respond to the scammer lowballer that obviously he couldn't read. I just trashed his email and marked his email address to automatically go to trash.

Sold the bike the next day to a young man who showed up with cash, he was happy, we were happy.