I was contacted last night via email by a Timothy Becky in Netherlands about my 1980 "POS" 200 SX. Here is his first email:
i saw your advert on web and im interested in buying your car,im based in Amsterdam,Holland,and i am willing to pay$300 ,get back to me if my offer is ok by you.
Timothy.
My anwser:
Dude, I am in Washington State, USA. I am sure that it will cost a fortune
to ship this car overseas (shipping cost is your responsibility). If you
want to do it, send me the down payment via paypal ($100 USD) and give me the shipping companies name you want to use. Have everything set up (most likely they will want payment in advance) and I will get the car to the shipper..
Then he writes this:
thanks for getting back to me,i think i am satisfied with the working condition so far . Like i said earlier i am based in the netherlands(holland).there won't be any probs about the shipment,after payment ,the pick up will be made at your place. i have made arrangements with the prepaid shipping company. As regards payment,this is what i am going to do;I have a client in the US who is owing me US7,800 i would instruct him to make out a money order/certified check to you in that amount and as soon as it clears your bank. you can now deduct your money from it and send me my balance,i will using use part of the money to pay for the shipping and other expenses .you will then send my balance by via western union money transfer.Although the value of the check is more than the asking price but i think i should be able to trust you with my balance. The reason why i am doing this is that it would take a check sent from over here in HOLLAND 21days to clear over there,whereas a check sent from the! US would clear tops within 48hrs. So i would like you to deduct the western union charges from my balance.So if my terms are acceptable to you,i would like you to give me your full name,address and phone number so that i can instruct my client to make out the check to you. Pls get back to me as soon as you get this mail so
that we can round things up in a timely fashion..i will be trusting in this business transaction. Thanks in this regard
timothy becky <[email removed]>
I saw a warning about a guy in Nigeria (supposedly) that was offering the same deal, in that after the price of the car was subtracted, you sent him $7500.00. The guy on the other site, did the deal and recieved a "bad Check" notice and the cashiers check was a forgery. I should have contacted the FBI and played the guy out but instead I told him if this was his intent, to buzz off. Fair warning to you all selling stuff. The reason I know he picked the ad up from our site is that I used a different title for the ad on every different site I posted it on the he quoted this title....
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Sep 3, 2003, 12:26 pm · #1
