Make that 2 scammers. Had a different one text me. This one didn't even know what he was 'buying',,metioned a car!

The negative side of advertising on the internet.

I've just ignore them, but if they text again, I'll tell them to do that.

Thanks Rocket n Strop.

 

rocket n strop, not a good idea to get a postal note, because they then have your home address

whenever I sell on Gumtrees I always put email replies only, cash sale only, and I do not include a phone number, and when they email me and want to see the item I ask for the suburb they live in and arrange to meet at a nearby park or shopping centre, NEVER give out your home address or phone number.

It does restrict your sale but I find it's a safe way of doing the sale

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rocket n strop, not a good idea to get a postal note, because they then have your home address

whenever I sell on Gumtrees I always put email replies only, cash sale only, and I do not include a phone number, and when they email me and want to see the item I ask for the suburb they live in and arrange to meet at a nearby park or shopping centre, NEVER give out your home address or phone number.

It does restrict your sale but I find it's a safe way of doing the sale

Hi wombat, that's a top idea of yours also. the rest of my idea : not to give my address but the address of the post office. makes me cranky when we want to sell something in good faith and these #%@%#% waste our time. i tried selling recently and got one bloke at least ten calls in 24 hours and then there were the txt messages from others and other emails. finally, we cancelled ad, lost money on ad and sold to a dealer. good luck everyone wanting to sell something.

maybe good to have a sale/swap on this site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yep, same thing happened to us when we attempted to sell our tinny - and although we didn't get 'top dollar' we decided to just trade it in on the one we were really after. These crumbs are unreal - just take care Beth.

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Yes when I was selling my CT........I had heaps of scammers........ "Send me your Paypal account" and we will get our minder to pick it up".....heard that so many times..suppost to be USA Army.....Grrrrrrrrrrrr

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 Yep, exact words Smokey.

Wombat, thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to put cash sale only on the ad. I see no benifit in using email rather than phone, I'd still get the same c**p in an email as I've had in texts.

For now, I have it advertised on Gumtree, Simple Traders and Quokka...all free ads.

After a week, I thought I'd just pay for an ad and go with ebay. Went through the whole thing filling it all in, got to the very end, the paypal bit, and discovered one has to pay paypal with a credit or visa card. I don't have either. Grrr! Trading Post is the same!

Makes me cranky that companies expect everyone to have a credit card!

 

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Beth, eBay owns PayPal !!!!!!!!!

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There was a story on one of the current affairs programs last night about a town in Romania. They called it scam city or hackers city, something like htat anyway.
The whole town runs on scamming from the internet and Australia is their biggest victim. As soon as one scam is sorted and stopped they have thought of another one.
The reason Aussie is the biggest is because we use the internet for shopping and banking etc more than any other country.

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I'm not really experienced at selling stuff. But my son has told me a few of his experiences.

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Beth54 wrote:

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I'm not really experienced at selling stuff. But my son has told me a few of his experiences.

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 I'm ignoring you.

Wendy, it's a shame you have to tie up. I'm glad you had the opportunity to do some kms before the health issues decided your future travel plans.
All the best with the van sales. Another emotional decision. There's no doubt a lot of memories in that box.

Rocket n strop,,,I did think about putting it in the front yard of someone I know, who lives on a major road, but it's also a bad area for thieves and graffiti 'artists'. Didn't want to risk it.

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Wendy, it's a shame you have to tie up. I'm glad you had the opportunity to do some kms before the health issues decided your future travel plans.
All the best with the van sales. Another emotional decision. There's no doubt a lot of memories in that box.

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 We've had 14 years since early retirement, and had the van all that time. Obviously, weren't travelling all the time, and have done very little the past couple of years. But, yes, you are right - lots of memories in the box on wheels. Time now for someone else to use it to make their memories.

We sold our last van on Trading post. Had 2 scammers, but, as you said.. their spelling gave them away. We found trading post has a section you can go to, that has known scammers names on it.

I've got my van on the market at the moment, Gumtree and Trading Post, will also put it on Quokka.

In regards to payment, if done by a legitimate Bank Cheque (which can still be cancelled by the buyer by the way, so not completely safe), is it normal to hand over the goods to the buyer in exhange for the bank cheque at the time or can you insist on waiting for the cheque to clear?  

Maybe give them a receipt for the bank cheque stating that it is for the full price of the van subject to clearance, van stays with you until cleared?

Last van I sold, I made the seller go to his bank with me and transfer the money into my account, then gave him the goods.  His bank also gave me a letter to say the money had been transferred.   He wasn't very happy with it though and it caused some ill feeling as he just wanted to pay with a bank cheque and take the goods immediately.

(Smokey, thanks for that list of scammers, even though hot mail and gmail used for most, the addressee's looked more legit than most of the overseas etc ones I've seen that stand out like dog's projections.....)