Sick of these Craigslist scammers!
06-20-2006, 05:44 PM
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Sick of these Craigslist scammers!
I put my phone on CL last Wednesday with no luck of selling it, and I just sold it on eBay yesterday.
Ever since I put that ad up on CL, I've been getting a lot of emails. 30% of them are serious buyers. However, I hate how they lowball (I listed my phone for 175.00, a bargain for even a slightly used W600i). Some guy had the guts to offer me $100.00 for the phone.
Anyways, back on topic. The other 70% were these scam emails. I knew they were scams because almost 99% of them said they were "buying it as a gift", or "for my friend", or "for their child". Then I tried to see if it really was a scam. I replied back asking what form of payment they would use. They usually replied back with Western Union transfer or US Postal Money Order.
I'm pretty sick of these scammers and I didn't know that there were so many out there.
Anyone else face the same problems?
Ever since I put that ad up on CL, I've been getting a lot of emails. 30% of them are serious buyers. However, I hate how they lowball (I listed my phone for 175.00, a bargain for even a slightly used W600i). Some guy had the guts to offer me $100.00 for the phone.
Anyways, back on topic. The other 70% were these scam emails. I knew they were scams because almost 99% of them said they were "buying it as a gift", or "for my friend", or "for their child". Then I tried to see if it really was a scam. I replied back asking what form of payment they would use. They usually replied back with Western Union transfer or US Postal Money Order.
I'm pretty sick of these scammers and I didn't know that there were so many out there.
Anyone else face the same problems?
06-20-2006, 05:45 PM
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never use your real email for selling stuff
my selling email is full of those paypal scams now because i posted it on ebay/CL (i don't even have paypal on that email add)
my selling email is full of those paypal scams now because i posted it on ebay/CL (i don't even have paypal on that email add)
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