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Audiogon sellers, please stop and read this thread

I had a couple listings last week and I received one e-mail from a potential buyer to instruct me to contact him via his private e-mail right away.

I was offered to be paid by Cashier Check rather than Paypal.
I accepted the term that the buyer would have his "agent" to pick up the units for sale. In term, I told the buyer I would only accept the Cashier Check from major banks.

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from the buyer instructing me to deposit the Cashier Check one I receive it BUT since the Cashier Check was made by his "financier" for more than the sale price, the buyer wanted me to cash out the difference and send a Moneygram to his "agent" so his" agent" can pick up the merchandise and the buyer thanked me for my " corporation".

I demand to know if the Cashier Check was made from major banks or not and how much is the difference between the sale price and the amount of the Cashier Check. I have not heard a response from him since then.

What's up? Was I born yesterday or is it a case of innocence
'till proven guilty?
andrewdoan
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Well I'll be darned, here's one of three I received all from the same person

>>I Am interested in your listed Item ,Please contact me at [email protected], to get more details about my interest and let me know its present condition.I am ready to deal asap<<

Small world
:-)
chashas1
596 posts
 
They're nasty parasites, Bill.
Audiogon already removed them from the site.
But more will come. Hopefully if everyone copies the perps questions to the moderators this can be radicated.
So stop waiving the bad checks around and acting like school girls, everyone please police your ads. And me! :)
chashas1
596 posts
 
and yet another one tonight....

Questions
From patrick24 ( 0 0% - No Feedback%)04/27/2012
Hello seller,i saw your placement and am interested in buying from you but before i processed, i like to know the mode of payment excluding the shipping cos i will take care of the shipping cost, get back to me as soon as possible for me to arrange for the payment.also you can contact me directly on my email [email protected] Regards.
bjesien
1,236 posts
 
I turn all silly requests over to my butler. He and my bodyguard work it out.

I've gotten a couple of these loons too.
mcloughlin
20 posts
 
Here is another suspected scamer I just received today. >> "Hello seller,i saw your placement and am interested in buying from you but before i processed, i like to know the mode of payment excluding the shipping cos i will take care of the shipping cost, get back to me as soon as possible for me to arrange for the payment.also you can contact me directly on my email [email protected] Regards."<< I received one just over a month ago very similar to this where they will arrange shipping and did not want to go through the agon site not use paypal. From this post it sound like Agon should put some warnings up through out the site. I will report this to agon.
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