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[HIGHLANDER]

Dude, just have fun with this guy...
It is a scam all the way. There is no FJR for sale... You will never get to see this bike.

Believe that Playa.

+100000!!!

SCAM..all the way !!!!!!!!

 

[TriggerT]

Well, sure enough. After looking into it further this looks like a scam. I know better then to believe deals like this, but one can always hope.

I think I will continue to tell the guy that I'm interested, just to see what happens. If nothing else it will be nice to waste a little of the *******s time.

The good news is that I got the go ahead from the boss (my wife) to trade in my V-Max, and pick up a new '06 FJR 1300 that is on the floor at a local Yamaha dealer. With any luck I will have the '06 by the end of this coming week.

Who knows, if by some really odd chance the deal on the '05 turns out to be true, I could sell it for double my money in a heart beat. If anything really ammusing happens, I will be sure to share it with the group.

Thanks for the reality check, and reminding me that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[starcruiser(aka downn2)]

It has the Y.E.S. until '09. The owner is being relocated overseas, and is willing to sell me the bike for....get this $2000.00.
To good to be true?

Offer him $1800, and see if he bits, I wouldn't offer him any more than $1900 no matter what.

 

[Ari Rankum]

I think I will continue to tell the guy that I'm interested, just to see what happens. If nothing else it will be nice to waste a little of the *******s time.

Get an address to mail your payment to. Then go to the bank and withdraw some green stuff. Take lots of pictures of stuffing up an envelope with the cash. Write something asinine on the envelope like, "DO NOT OPEN, CONTAINS CASH". Take a picture of that, too. Then tear the envelope to shreds, remove the cash, and tape the envelope up with brown packing tape. Mail the envelope and email the pictures to the scammer. When the scammer receives the taped-up envelope he'll lose his mind. Scammers get really, really spun up if someone steals money from them that they were in the process of stealing. You'll probably get a lecture about not writing "CONTAINS CASH" on an envelope. Of course, you can afford to be magnanimous and offer to send the money again. This time, you use your brain and write, "DO NOT OPEN, DOES NOT CONTAIN CASH". Of course, the same thing happens. If you're really good with photoshop, you can craft up a good newspaper article about a FedEx plane going down in the Bermuda Triangle, and, wouldn't you know it, your third sack of cash was on that very FedEx plane. Et cetera, et cetera.

The sky is the limit when it comes to torturing scammers. Eff them.

 

[TriggerT]

That's GOOD! I was just going to tell him that I can pick the bike up on either this day or that, since I will be "Off Duty" on those days, and one of the other guys from the "Tacticle Unit" offered to drive me to pick the bike up. Think I will hear from him after that?

 

[radman]

Learn from a Master

 

[TriggerT]

As you probably all have guessed by now, the bike was listed on E-Bay. The "Scammer" has yet to say anything about an escrow company, but I'm sure that is what is coming. I am supprised he is even trying this with me, since I have been on E-Bay for several years, and have a rating of well over 700. I have bought and sold all over the world, and wouldn't even think of sending anyone a penny without a valid VIN number, a test ride on the bike, atc., etc. Hell, he wants to play games, sounds good to me. I will keep you all up to date, and will entertain any....inspired ideas for the follies.

 

[jjsC6]

This thread just got stranger. You say that you can't believe he is trying this scam on you, with all of your experience on E-Bay. First of all - how is he trying this with YOU? Did he know that you were going to be the only person to reply to his ad?

Second, if you are so E-Bay savy, then why did you come on this forum and ask our opinion on whether it's a good deal or not? I hate to sound so blunt, but this just doesn't make any sense to me at all.

However, I will wish you good luck with a purchase of a new FJR, and hope to see you as a valued member of this forum.

 

[TriggerT]

Actually, my first question was what to be warry of as far as the bike itself. I don't know that much about the FJR, and was hoping to get some information on what to watch out for in regard to this specific model of motorcycle.

I believe so far one person has respond in that regard, but we have gone a long way down the "Scam Road."

Probably time to close this thread out.

 

[Scab]

Learn from a Master

Good grief, Rad. Next time, please give us the Reader's Digest condensed version.

I can't believe I read that whole thing.

 

[zorkler]

o.k give him my e mail and i wll pay him 3k for it

 

[Fencer]

Learn from a Master

Good grief, Rad. Next time, please give us the Reader's Digest condensed version.

I can't believe I read that whole thing.

Yes, but it WAS FUNNY!