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Advice on sale of furniture

samantha13

samantha13

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So I posted our suite of furniture for sale on Gumtree yesterday. I got the following email today. Is this dodgy? I don't know if this is normal but due to previous bad experiences I'm always thinking the worst!
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One of my colleagues had something similar and it was an attempted scam. I'd avoid.
 
Here in the US, if you post anything on Craigslist you'll get about 5 of those emails within an hour of posting.

What's crazy is that a lot of people fall for those scams. My office is inside of a bank and my company sends out fraud alerts when there are instances of fraud in the area. I get at least 1-2 emails a week about this exact scam where people have become a victim and deposited money into the scammer's account.
 
Reminds me of a nigerian scam artist who wanted to deposit 25% of his uncle's million dollar stash in my account at no cost to me ... so I strung him along.

I went back and I demanded 35% ... he said "OK". I hit him back with an email and said it took him too long to respond and now it was 45%.

The idiot said "Yes" ... so I said "nup, now it's 65%" ..... he finally cottoned after further emails that I was annoying him a lot more than he was me.

I hadn't finished with him so I kept demanding he now send me 100% plus another 20% penalty for my effort in typing out emails.

Three weeks solid of daily emails back to him, took me 2 seconds to type (just copy / paste) with some appropriate language ...

I NEVER got another email from them or anyone else again.
 
It just goes to show to trust your gut! If I hadn't been stung in the past I would never have questioned this! To some this would sound ideal!
 
Ignore it @samantha13, no one would request that a advert is removed asap if payment for the goods hasn't been received.
 
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