Wish it had more pictures.....

I don't know anything about this bike, but it seems pretty cool, yes?

https://skagit.craigslist.org/mcy/d/1980-suzuki-gs1100/6635484204.html

Scam.  Quickest way I see it is when you click on the image it opens up in the "image window" the exact same size.  Yes, very odd way of detecting a scam, but you spend enough time looking at things you see the tell tell signs.  All of the scammers use some process and for whatever reason the images are never 'zoomed' in the view window like most other legit ads.

Not to mention the "story"....

Plus, a bike that classic would command more pictures.

Ah.....

It’s a sign of the times I guess.

I got my bike on CL, posted yesterday.
Woke to a reply via CL link.

Guy said he was interested in my bike, wants to talk, etc, but that CL link has been giving him issues.
I thought no way, you just contacted me, what the heck.
Bounced in off my smarter than me wife, she said it’s possible, use the email he gave me.
I did.
30 minutes go by and I get a reply.
He says, “He was just giving me some help, as he just sold his bike, and everyone looking at it wanted to know it’s history, like a car fax for motorcycles.
He said, and provided a link, that this place will do that for 40 bucks.
It made a big difference, and he sold his bike quickly after that....

I returned his email.
I asked him what kind of vacuum cleaner was he selling  

Oh well, live and learn, sadly, some won’t  

Same thing happened to me Raydawg when I was selling the NT.  I got the usual "Your item still for sale" requests.....I know those are not real folks and I ignore them.  I had 3 people that looked legitimate and I responded with questions that seemed they were really interested.  One of them responded back asking if I had a vehicle history report, and I said no.  He then responded with a link to where I could get one done for $15.  I suggested that he get it done, and if he bought the bike I would refund the $15 to him - or if he provided me a copy of it I would pay him for half......he responded that he could not pay for a report for someone else's bike - so I knew at that point it was just a scam promotion for his company.

A couple years back I was casually looking for a little Scamp travel trailer.  I found one that was really nice and had been restored inside, and the price was really cheap - he was in the military and if you bought it you would need to go to the base to pick it up.  He provided a link to a YouTube video of the inside, and I began to get suspicious when I saw the video had more than 1,000 views and was a couple months old......and the comments was disabled.  The trailer was so nice and the price so cheap it would have been gone within a few days of it listing.  I started looking at Craigslist sites in other major Cities, and the trailer was also listed in them - it was obviously a scam and I notified Craigslist in each City I found one of his listings.

 

Its not that bad here, yet.....
maybe because we are such a small isolated market, the island, etc.
I have been pretty lucky using it, buying and selling.

I did see a great truck, cheap, etc....
Same thing Dave, the military base, shipping out, thing.
It was her deceased husbands truck, and she just wanted it gone.

I bit.

I knew after the first exchange I got duped, now I wanted to turn the tables.
I pretended to be a 15 year old boy, and I was wanting my single mother to buy me this truck so I could get a job and help her and my siblings out, etc.
I got real personal with the "woman" asking about her late husband, how he died, etc.
I told her my mom was not being reasonable, a real BEETCH, and that she needed to talk to her, etc....
I told her I could maybe do payments after I got the job, but needed the truck to get a job, etc....

Guess what, never heard back  

I do that on sales calls too, on the phone
I tell them, opps, you just caught me getting out of the shower, I nekked, and dripping.....
Asked them if that excites them?
I keep it going, asking them probing questions......
They hang up  

Try it, its fun.
I've made up such outrageous stories of misery, that I think I had them on the edge of tears, wanting to send me stuff to help  

Those are good, but honest, try the shower thing and ask if they can just breath heavy for a couple more minutes  

Ruttly wrote on 07/28/18 at 10:12:31:


You have any idea how much corporation pay to get name recognition  

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/28/18 at 17:23:40:


Oh mercy...... you is giving me the vapors