I sure everyone gets tired of hearing about the dishonesty of others but just so no one lets their love of tractors cloud their better judgment, I will share.
Sunday night a fully restored, 861 PowerMaster was listed on craigslist with photos for $2300. I responded that I was a very interested party and with out going into to much detail here is what happened. I got a hard luck story claiming to be out of the country with an urgent need to sell this item using a E-Bay :?: holding company to handle the transaction. I could not see the tractor as he didn't know where it was, as it was picked up by this holding company, but upon their receipt of my wired money, they would deliver to my address with a 10 day money back guarantee. Naturally I couldn't do business this way, exchanged several e-mails trying to find some truth. He took the position of being offended that I had pledged my interest and now he had wasted precious time with me. I reassured him my intent was real and that it was his transaction process that was troubling. In the mean time I researched craigs list scams and I found a laundry list of items that had been run in a scam that was a carbon copy of this story. I gave this jerk a final reply that I was out of the game and he could repost the tractor with... and then I included the list of items this guy had ran scams on. Naturally I never heard from him again. I just can't understand how people like this can live with themselves. Be aware... we all ain't good people. God Bless those that are, to heck with the rest.
Sunday night a fully restored, 861 PowerMaster was listed on craigslist with photos for $2300. I responded that I was a very interested party and with out going into to much detail here is what happened. I got a hard luck story claiming to be out of the country with an urgent need to sell this item using a E-Bay :?: holding company to handle the transaction. I could not see the tractor as he didn't know where it was, as it was picked up by this holding company, but upon their receipt of my wired money, they would deliver to my address with a 10 day money back guarantee. Naturally I couldn't do business this way, exchanged several e-mails trying to find some truth. He took the position of being offended that I had pledged my interest and now he had wasted precious time with me. I reassured him my intent was real and that it was his transaction process that was troubling. In the mean time I researched craigs list scams and I found a laundry list of items that had been run in a scam that was a carbon copy of this story. I gave this jerk a final reply that I was out of the game and he could repost the tractor with... and then I included the list of items this guy had ran scams on. Naturally I never heard from him again. I just can't understand how people like this can live with themselves. Be aware... we all ain't good people. God Bless those that are, to heck with the rest.
