Yesterday I get a message from Joey... Dad, can I use the truck and trailer to pick up a car in Tallahassee? He lives in Jacksonville which is 80 miles east. Tally is 80 miles W of me. Replied maybe, depends. Anyway before I get done working for the day he's at my place unloading the lumber off the trailer. I get home and decide to drive him to get this car, he's not on the ins policy as a driver. Joe's going on and on about what a great deal it is then says the seller required a 200$ deposit on this 1200 car to hold it until het got to Tally. In the back of my head a warning light goes off. Then he tells me he paid through a cash app but when the payment was processed the first several time it got kicked back with a warning message that this could be fraud. Joe persisted and got the payment through. Hour drive later were in front of the address provided. Nice house, upscale neighborhood, no sign of the car. Joe knocks on the door and the lady that answered has no knowledge of the seller or the car. Joe contacts the guy through some platform and gets a runaround as to where the guy and the car is. After an hour of waiting we give up and drive home. Some lessons cost more than others. He paid for my fuel and bought dinner. bet he wont do that again!
Hey, if your gonna learn a lesson the hard way, $200 aint bad. Many get the same lesson at a far higher price. On the plus side, you both got some quality time together, and possibly some future laughs once the sting wears off.
These demons pray on people's innocence, honesty, ignorance and lack of life experience. Imagine if we lived in a world where you can actually trust anyone? If only. Like you said, he won't do that again!
A deposit just to hold it for a couple of hours to view it is a big red flag to me, especially when it's only a $1200 car! And the cash ap even said it was fraud. I guess some people just learn life lessons the hard way. Keith
Got a phone call Monday afternoon from some guy Jim in Texas asks me if I'm the guy who likes Buick muscle cars I reply yes he tells me he's at some lady's house looking at a 70 stage one convertible and also a 69 Skylark both cars in decent condition parked inside a garage she wants 4,500 for the pair he will bring them from Texas to California for me call them send me pictures sounds great I got cash waiting for you call me about an hour later says he's about 245 bucks shy to pay this lady wants me to go to a Western Union and send him money I asked him where's my pictures he said he's nowhere near her now he went to go get a cup of coffee told him when I get off of work I'll send you the money he would call me throughout the day I kept asking for photos never got them...... He called me the next day and asked if I could help him out I told him if you bring me those two cars to my house I'll give you 8 grand cash. I also asked him for my photos that was the end of the story
Nope. Kids today dont know how to write a letter and stick a stamp on it. All through these stupid messaging apps. they all got a phone glued to their hands and stuck up to their faces. He always has. his entire life despite us trying to show him the right way to go and sharing all the bad chit thats happened to us in our youth.
I meant e-mail address there. So not through messages on a forum or for sale website, but from the seller's email account to your son's email account.
how many of us REALLY listened to all the good advice are parents told us and went and did the opposite? my guess is very few? when you are young you do what you think is best and the heck with what anybody else says lol. thats how we all learn and become wise. i think its a rite of passage of being young and getting screwed/cheated/ect. then when you get older and smarter you can waste your breath and give your children the very best advice that they will not take LOL. THE CYCLE CONTINUES................ CHARLIE
You missed out there Joe!? I bought them and they are being delivered to me in a couple weeks!! I had to pay in full first, but the guy seemed legit! LOL! ( Of course I'm kidding! )
The big problem with modern electronic communication is that it's manna from heaven for scammers. Right now I have an email that wants me to open an attachment to listen to a 3:40 voicemail. I don't recognize the email address and I'm afraid to open it.
