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Thread: Not quite yet...
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straightrepu
Redlining
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posted August 13, 2004 03:31 PM |
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Not quite yet...
Looks like this guy is trying the scam (check more than agreed upon amount, refund the difference to buyer). So the little red REPU ain`t goin nowhere right now.
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brad
Rotorhead
Posts: 1672
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posted August 17, 2004 01:50 PM |
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very glad you caught this one Craig
People that scam like this are scum.
I agree with not taking personal or business checks. A guy I did side jobs for had a big check bounce about 1 week after I deposited. Boy was I upset.
Official Bank Check is the most negotiable. It's drawn upon the Bank branch's own account. Not an customer's account. Costs a few bucks for buyer to get one.
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-brad-
74 REPU Lawn Green
81 Rx-7 racecar. 12a J-
Bridge
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Tom93R1
Redlining
Posts: 458
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posted August 18, 2004 01:39 PM |
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What did you want for it?
Employee stock purchase program is coming up here in the next few days, and I am thinking that combined with the last one and a small personal loan... Who knows.
Then I would need to figure out something for mine. Anybody want to buy a 74 green in need of some work? A little more playing with the carb and it is ready to go anywhere in the country as long as A/C isnt needed.
Which reminds me, that one doesnt have A/C does it?
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'74 lawn-green
4-port 13b
Weber 48DCO
Racing Beat Header
Magnaflow
resonator/amplifier
really loud!
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Tom93R1
Redlining
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posted August 18, 2004 02:49 PM |
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Wow, 45 minutes into our 3rd quarter earnings anouncement and my stock purchase program isnt going to get me much of anything.
Still interested in knowing what your goal is to get for the REPU.
thanks
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'74 lawn-green
4-port 13b
Weber 48DCO
Racing Beat Header
Magnaflow
resonator/amplifier
really loud!
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kansei
Redlining
Wankelized
Posts: 423
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posted August 19, 2004 06:55 AM |
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That purchase scam is everwhere...
While my Bronco was posted on auto trader, I had a guy try to pull the same thing- I was asking $5900, he wanted to send me a check for $10k, refund the balance to his "client". I knew it was bullshit right off, especially when I got another email saying he was glad that I had agreed (I never emailed him back about that), then the "problem" on his end- something about his bank requiring I send them my account info for direct deposit. Sure, let me get that for you....
The seller I got my Suzuki RE-5 from this weekend had the same thing happen to him with the bike. Funny things is, it was only advertised on rotaryrecycle.net- Sam's site! I think the people running these scams use bots that scan the net for want/sale ads and automatically generate email inquiries, as some of them are vague statements with the obligatory broken english "I would very like much to purchase you item for sales", etc.
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Neal A.E. Swigert
Greenville, Michigan
1974 REPU Resto Project
1976 808 Wagon
1977 Cosmo
1978 Savanna RX-7 GT
1980 Leather Sport RX-7
1980 Petty Targa RX-7 #11
1985 GSL-SE RX-7
1988 RX-7 10th Ann
1993 RX-7 VR Touring
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straightrepu
Redlining
Posts: 232
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posted August 19, 2004 09:02 AM |
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Another overseas buyer
has contacted me on behalf of his client, this time from Ireland. I haven`t answered his email as I`m sure its another scam.
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brad
Rotorhead
Posts: 1672
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posted August 19, 2004 09:54 AM |
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Whatever happened to cash and a handshake????
Internet is a great source of information but another source of crime. Guess it's "seller beware" now.
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74 REPU Lawn Green
81 Rx-7 racecar. 12a J-
Bridge
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klaus42
Rotorhead
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posted August 19, 2004 05:19 PM |
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Everyone beware, all the time...
Sad but true: As my friend is fond of phrasing it, the rotary 'community' itself has more than it's share of outright 'charlatans'... Then there's all the non-rotary-community con games...
Sure 'nuf, checks are worthless pieces of paper... just try asking your favorite bank after how long a time one can no longer be returned... (!)
Nowadays, thay won't even help you out to try and collect... due to 'privacy rules'... and it won't hel;p to inform them that there no longer is any such thing, post 9-11 and post-Patriot Act...
(Only if you're IRS, CIA, or Dept. of Homeland Insecurity I guess!)
Now, about trust, handshakes, and cash/check/credit transactions: It really does go both ways, doesn't it? I mean, an unscrupulous seller can as easily take off with the dough, and the buyer gets screwed, just as the other way 'round...
Moral (?): Some are only in it for the money--and it doesn't matter who or what's involved.
...and that's just sad.
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Lasse
Revvin Up
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posted September 30, 2004 03:59 PM |
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Bad people everywhere....
I hope some see some good in Europeans too , everyone of us is not sceamers... There are bad people everywhere in our world , i know... I have meet some... I would like to have the money too buy craigs Repu , but i havīnt... I hope he finds a true repu-lover that will hold this super fine pickup in shape for many years to come...
I will get back to you craig , when time is on my side...
I have a lot of things to do , as you know...
Things are going in the right directions and time is the only thing i need to get more off...
Lg...
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Rotation is my life !!! Said the rotor to the housing...
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