is it a scam

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dvx216

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Feb 1, 2012
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Catawaba Island/Orrville,Oh.
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340 Sundancer 2001
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8.1s 370 v drv.
I listed my 1988 230 wk.Now for the year its in good shape with new camper top upholster and mooring cover.I have a person that has text me about the boat and is willing to pay my asking price of $8750 by sending me a cashiers check and he says once its cleared the bank he will have movers pick it up.Who in the heck buys a common boat like this sight unseen.So if the person sends me a cashiers check and it clears the bank I'm I missing something something?
 
He will only be able to get a cashiers check for $1000.00 more than your asking price. But that's ok because he trusts you to deposit the difference in his account. Later you find out the cashiers check is worthless.

Yes, it's a scam. Ignore it.
 
It's funny because I told him I wouldn't sell to him unless in person that's the last I heard from him.To bad there is not away to bust people like this. The first one was someone in the military and was over sea and could not talk to me because their satellite phone was down he was willing to pay with paypal.
 
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I would have:
Deposited the check in a new account
Waited untill the sender called
And then tell him the bank must wait 6 months for the check to clear
This way there is a paper trail to file charges
The only other way to sell something is "Payment in CASH"
 
I am always skeptical, but if you retained ownership and possession until check clears, don't see what you had to lose. I know it's different, but as a broker, we get checks all the time for boats, sight unseen. You are asking a great price, maybe he's willing to take a chance. Good luck.
 
I listed my Harley for sale on Craigs List last week. Immediately I was contacted by 4 scammers. Their pitch was very similar. Will deposit the asking price into my Pay Pal account and buy sight unseen and will send a truck to pick the bike up. I never let them get to the part where I needed to wire them the shipping costs up front.
 
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a cash only transaction on a boat at that price. I sold my boat for more than double that last year and insisted on cash. The buyer had no problem at all with it.
 
JVM225 said:
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for a cash only transaction on a boat at that price. I sold my boat for more than double that last year and insisted on cash. The buyer had no problem at all with it.
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Cash is also no guarantee.

My dad lived near a large retirement community in Arizona and found it was pretty easy to buy cars pretty cheap when people died -- in some instances, there's limited family and they just want to liquidate grandpa's possessions. He would drive the cars up to Minnesota where he used to live and re-sell them, making a couple of grand on each one, basically paying for his transportation and expenses while he was here.

The last one he sold to a guy for cash. Took the cash the next day and put into the bank. A day or so later, the Secret Service knocked at his door and had some questions for him about the counterfeit currency he deposited! He showed them the counter-signed title receipt and explained the situation, but was out the $7500 he sold the car for.

As it happens, he got the car back about six months later. The driver -- who was not the same as the buyer -- claimed he won it in a card game, and of course the car was pretty trashed, not the Sunday driver it had been.
 
They must be getting desperate, that poor fellow in the military tried to buy my dinghy using the same line. Wanted to use PayPal in order to protect both buyer and seller. Told him cash only and never heard back from him.
 
My mother and step-father are selling their 2012 Crusader 5th wheel and had the same thing. They were asking about $25k and got an email with a full price offer. the buyer was overseas in the military and would deposit the money in my mothers paypal and send somebody to pick it up sight unseen. i told her to be very cautious. she told him she was skeptical and he never contacted her again
 
Maybe the state of Florida should start posting it's derelict boats on CL, these people have movers that pick them up site-un-seen:smt038
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J.Wilt said:
They must be getting desperate, that poor fellow in the military tried to buy my dinghy using the same line. Wanted to use PayPal in order to protect both buyer and seller. Told him cash only and never heard back from him.
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Was it Sgt Cedric Martin from Qauntico where he claims they don't allow cell phones?
 
JimT said:
Was it Sgt Cedric Martin from Qauntico where he claims they don't allow cell phones?
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Okay i'll take it. I'll have to pay you through PayPal because am currently at the Hanscom Air Force Base at Bedford, Massachusetts. I have a Mover that will come for pickup once payment is cleared. #dumbass
 
Blkbird said:
How does the Paypal scam work?
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They claim they never received the item after payment by Paypal.
Paypal will refund him and charge you!

Cash only...even then it may be fake,
 
Probably a scam but i will say I sold my last boat under strange conditions. The people were from another country and wanted that exact boat with my exact options (and we are not talking an expensive boat, less than 10g). After going back and forth with them they agreed to send a wire transfer of 1/4 the asking price for me to hold the boat. The day before they picked it up i had a wire transfer for the remainder of the funds. The buyers did show up to get it but until they were in my drive i was not positive i wasn't being scammed.
 
New twist so I get a call to help sell my boat on Boat Sellers Network.Its a web site that list your boat for a fee.Never heard of the site until now so how good they be selling anything.
 
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