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scam buyer?

by chickendrumsticks
Wed, Jul 05, 2017 20:57
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I have today placed a classified for my Swiss Allegro on this site.  Just received a dodgy looking email response - poor English and asking questions for which answers are in the ad.  Googled the email address (as you do being a suspicious old sod) and found it listed on a horse trading site (yes, really, folks buying and selling equines) as a scammer.  Address id is: Timm Nikolaus Ruffler<rufflertimmnikolaus [at] yahoo.com>;

 

Ring any bells anyone?

 

Thanks for any info.

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chickendrumsticks | 7 years ago
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Ho ho Duncann - at least mine doesn't have a square steering wheel..and perhaps if they had been made in Switzerland they may not have been the total cr*p they were!

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Dnnnnnn | 7 years ago
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You're questioning the buyer, and you selling a "Swiss Allegro"??

Everyone over the age of 40 knows that Allegros were only ever built in the West Midlands by British Leyland.  Caveat emptor, I'd say (and would have said in the '70s too)!

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Team EPO | 7 years ago
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Every classified I have put up on road.cc I have had scammers contact me, they often just use broad terms like the item rather than the bike, shoes etc.  Avoid!

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chickendrumsticks | 7 years ago
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Thanks you two.  It's as expected.  I had a similar experience earlier this year - selling another bike funnily enough - he wanted to overpay etc etc and I ended up explaining that I knew just what his game was and where he could lodge his offer! 

 

Thanks again

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Mungecrundle | 7 years ago
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And they offer full price maybe a bit more, possibly on the pretext that you need to pay some cash to someone possibly the courier that they arrange and they even send you a cheque that initially clears and gets credited on your account, but then many days later gets returned by the issuer, but only after your goods and cash have been collected / stolen.

Avoid.

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StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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I think a fairly safe rule of thumb in this day and age is if there's any doubt in your mind at all, stay the hell away. Not worth the aggro.

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