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o man this is weird...

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atari2600a said:
$550 on Buy it Now!?
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Yeah, any one of those laptops (Panasonic ToughBook) would have been worth $550.00, which got my curiousity up, so I checked the feedback ratings. Seller had a total of ten feedback, all positive, all dated today, (it was a one-day auction, BTW) and all fishey-looking (five were from the same 'seller'). Anyways, I didn't like the way it smelled, so I narc-ed on 'em...

--T
 
ToughBooks come in all sizes from the small ones to regular sized ones. Mine is a tiny one, but it has a touch screen monitor. ^_^ Its awesome.

Model CF-M34 if you want to find a pic of it.....

-VK
 
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^^^^Totally Awsome!!!!^^^^

Sadly though, my only laptop is an old Pentium Fugitsu Livebook 735DX, with a battery that only lasts 1-1.5 hours...
 
vlad said:
ToughBooks come in all sizes from the small ones to regular sized ones. Mine is a tiny one, but it has a touch screen monitor. ^_^ Its awesome.

Model CF-M34 if you want to find a pic of it.....

-VK
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They were (alledgedly) full-size, with touch-screens, 256Mb RAM, & 30Gb hard drives. I'm trying to rem'br the model, and CF-42 sounds about right, IIRC.

--T
 
y'all...the guy isn't looking for any money though. Are you sure it's a scam? Maybe the guy just wants to replace his old worn out Victor. There are people that insist on having the same equipment to work with. Far fetched...yeah, but what could the guy possibly gain? He's the one offering the moola.
 
Well, in that case put a ridiculously high bid and wait for the auction to finish. I'm not sure what the policy is for premature ending of auctions, but I'm sure it could be solved if required. Not that you are better protected from scammers only because they put a bid through eBay instead of dealing on the side. Most likely the buyer would offer some form of escrow service that evaporates as soon as the package is picked up. I've read stories like that before, someone who smelled a scammer and made a fake laptop out of a decorated folder and some other nonsense paper weight, and then took great measures to track down the "buyer", down to taking pictures of the person.
 
The scam is that they try to talk you into shipping the laptop first, by sending a fake E-money order, or even a real one, which is then cancelled as soon as they receive tracking info for the shipment. Usually, the scam is to offer to send a lot more money than the item is worth, after which, they try to get the seller to send the 'excess' cash to a third party (my daughter in London, etc). Must work sometimes, or there wouldn't be so many people trying it. Oh yeah, PayPal does not even service Nigeria, and several other west African countries that are notorious origins for frauds of the type. Check this link for several variants of the 'Nigerian Scam':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

--T
 
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Fake laptops...I've been tempted to send some of those scammers a box full of bricks or sum'n heavy, so that they not only don't gain anything, but have to pay some gigantic shipping fee for thier trouble. I mean, what are they gonna do, turn you in?

--T
 
I got hit by a load of scams when I sold my Compaq Armada M300 laptop on eBay. Scammer bid at the last minute and sent me a fake PayPal payment email (£300 on a £200 laptop), and then instructed me to send my laptop to some bus stop in Nigeria!

Ended up selling it through my workplace's Intranet instead :)
 
Chris2005 said:
right, but what would the person have to gain by getting them to ship a 386 laptop? Maybe I'm missing something...
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That's when they spring the 'extra money' proposal on the seller. They send a fake payment of some kind, for considerably more than the sale price, with instructions to send the rest of the money to someone. It's a bit of social engineering to convince the seller to forward the money by complaining about banking restrictions, extra banking costs, taxes, duties, etc, in thier own country.
(The scammer in this case ain't even very good at it, I've seen a lot better).

--T
 
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