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Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - Uncle Wig - 08-30-2013
silvarios wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
If that's the complete text of their message, I'd say spam; no mention of what's being offered whatsoever.
Yep, each is one whole message. A receipt for a more than two year old computer doesn't even make sense.
I keep receipts for at least that long, if for no other reason than it's more work to throw them out then to keep them. And I can still prove that I'm the original owner for my Mac Pro. I seriously doubt that keeping receipts is as rare as you think.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - Speedy - 08-30-2013
Uncle Wig wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
[quote=DeusxMac]
If that's the complete text of their message, I'd say spam; no mention of what's being offered whatsoever.
Yep, each is one whole message. A receipt for a more than two year old computer doesn't even make sense.
I keep receipts for at least that long, if for no other reason than it's more work to throw them out then to keep them. And I can still prove that I'm the original owner for my Mac Pro. I seriously doubt that keeping receipts is as rare as you think.
Not rare here. I have a folder in a file drawer that I slip all my receipts into. I really need to thin it out, though. I keep e-receipts filed in a folder named 'Receipts' that I don't thin but it is easy to search.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - hal - 08-30-2013
silvarios wrote:
"hello do you still have this item available?"
"Hello, do you still have a receipt?"
I'm guessing spam as usual.
that's right - you're guessing
you need to put something in the listing demanding some sort of ID, like "please put the name of any Disney character in the subject heading else your message will be automatically deleted without me seeing it."
Then you won't have to guess.
As a seller of stuff on ebay for a long, long time I've learned that people ask the strangest questions. Lots of people are interested in a receipt as proof the item wasn't stolen - and yes, many people are extremely organized and can quickly pull out a receipt from purchases from DECADES ago and therefore (unreasonably) expect others to be just like them.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - silvarios - 08-30-2013
hal wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
"hello do you still have this item available?"
"Hello, do you still have a receipt?"
I'm guessing spam as usual.
that's right - you're guessing
you need to put something in the listing demanding some sort of ID, like "please put the name of any Disney character in the subject heading else your message will be automatically deleted without me seeing it."
Then you won't have to guess.
Really? These are pretty common spam responses on Craigslist.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - hal - 08-30-2013
Yes, they are, but also used by real people - it's happened to me.
If I got one of those messages, I'd be 95% sure it was spam, but if I got one of those and I had put the Disney bit in than, I'd be 100% sure.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - silvarios - 08-30-2013
Speedy wrote:
Not rare here. I have a folder in a file drawer that I slip all my receipts into. I really need to thin it out, though. I keep e-receipts filed in a folder named 'Receipts' that I don't thin but it is easy to search.
I actually did have the receipt, but I figured that is rare since I've never been given an original receipt for anything on Craigslist or eBay. No wait, guy who gave me his LC II when I bought an extended keyboard had his original receipt for the LC II.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - silvarios - 08-30-2013
hal wrote:
Yes, they are, but also used by real people - it's happened to me.
If I got one of those messages, I'd be 95% sure it was spam, but if I got one of those and I had put the Disney bit in than, I'd be 100% sure.
Hey man, that's fair. When I re-list I'll try it.
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - hal - 08-30-2013
THEN I'd be 100% - gawd, I hate that typo!!!
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - Psurfer - 08-30-2013
Yes, it's often worth it to Not just assume that a questionable or even idiotic response is from a scammer.
This has been proven to me a number of times. Even once again proved this this afternoon, w/something expensive (a few thousand$) on eBay that I've been trying to sell for a long while.
I was about 80% sure a question -about paying a down pymnt on it- that came in the other day was a scam. The questioner had just signed up for his eBay account minutes prior to sending me the question; he was Russian, but with a US eBay address; I had just fielded a very similar question from a (definite) scammer just a day or so before re the same item, and that other scammer had Also just signed up for his eBay acct... So how many seeming strikes was that on this guy???
Still, I gave him the benefit, even though I figured the chances were about 80%+ against anything good coming of it. I told him I might consider his offer to be legit if he'd send a direct bank wire transfer deposit. He said he'd do so in 2 days, and amazingly, I got the money in that (kept zero balance, PayPal-only-used) account this aftn!
YMMV...
Re: Craigslist: Spam or real person? - C(-)ris - 08-30-2013
That money will be yanked out in a week and you will be on the hook.