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10-05-2009, 01:05 PM
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AMA Supersport
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Richmond, Tx
Moto: '10 Tuono Factory
Posts: 4,569
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best o luck i bought my bike off of the i-net essetially. contacted w/ dude. sent guy $100 in earnest $, sent my flight info...........took a check for the bike. his son picked me up from the airport, drove 1 hr back to the house got the bike prepped for the ride home, thanks TROY spent the night at dude's house,
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ 2014 GROM! 181cc of FURY 2010 Aprilia Tuono Factory - SOLD 2009 SFV Gladius - SOLD 2008 Hayabusa - SOLD. Last edited by RACER X; 10-05-2009 at 01:24 PM.. |
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10-05-2009, 10:02 AM
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The Man
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: CrabTown USA
Moto: 00 Bimota DB4
Posts: 823
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Tigger, I hope for your sakes this is a real deal, BUT Unless the deal is done through a certified and licensed escrow corp, there is a pretty good chance you are being scammed. If you propose an escrow service of your own and a shipper of your own and you start getting "excuses" for why you must use his service, it's a scam.. I always offer to fly out and inspect the bike and waive the waiting period, and whenever it's a scam I get the shell game..."the bikes not in city X, it's in their warehouse in city Y", or ""It's in a high security bonded area...blah blah blah...". Ok then I tell them I'll fly to city Y....either they stop replying or dream up another reason why i can't see the bike "in situ"..........and it's a scam.................. Let me guess; the bike is in another state, they (bank; ebay, moneybookers, ect.) handle all the shipping arrangements and your have (3 days/5 days/10 days) to examine and approve the merchandise. You would not be the first guy to have been snookered by somebody who hijacked someone else's ebay acct. Banks don't ship bikes...neither does ebay, escrow corps, or anybody but SHIPPERS. Also, vehicles not purchased through ebay aren't eligible for buyer protection. There's a pretty good chance that the "seller" used hijacked links to spoof sites to fool you. Who knows, it might be legit, but my nose is twitching...........I've been wrong before....I think............. Last edited by OTB; 10-05-2009 at 10:09 AM.. |
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10-05-2009, 10:09 AM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 12,156
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Tigger,
If you haven't seen the bike in person, I'd stay clear of this deal. I'm paranoid about being scammed so maybe it's just me but this deal doesn't seem right. You know the saying, if it sounds too good to be true, then usually it is... |
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10-05-2009, 12:56 PM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
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Here's the listing... http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mcy/1399974176.html The Photobucket account... http://s562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/DavidRVI/ The "EBay" listing has disappeared of course. Man, they have a slick operation, I have to admit! Everything looks perfectly on the up and up, EXCEPT the wire transfer... I told her the the start that she should only use Pay Pal but she wouldn't listen to me. The modified EBay listing promised her 3 days to check the bike out before the funds were released... Now the worst part is that, like all companies these days, her CU didn't process her stop request right away and sat on it for almost 2 hours before sending it through!!!  She literally went back to the bank within an hour... Man, I hope that she didn't get screwed!!! The only "positive" side to this whole thing is that the money she was spending was "free" in the sense that because her parents are divorced, she has three sets of Grandparents and two parents that send her money every month (at least $1000/month), on top of the huge grants that she gets because of her grades and the fact that she is in the medical field. Her classes cost under $2500 and she gets almost $6000 in grants, no bs. Plus she works as a pharmacy tech for Walgreens. She went to Europe this Spring and had almost no money when she got back. She paid her tuition, bought the 250, 3 helmets, three jackets, a helmet for me, her bike insurance (Mom pays for her car), chaps, misc gloves, clothes, paid off her credit cards, etc and she still has (maybe had) $6000 in her account before this deal! Heck, she'll still have $2000 even if she gets fucked with more money coming next semester. It's truly amazing... 
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10-05-2009, 01:07 PM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 12,156
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10-05-2009, 01:38 PM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
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10-05-2009, 10:13 AM
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Letzroll
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lake Norman area, NC
Moto: 07 Red R1 & 07 Blue R6
Posts: 5,265
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Hopefully it works out and is legit.
If so...congrats to her for finding such a steal of a deal. My wife started on a 600 and it has been over two years and SO FAR everything has worked out 100% fine...she loves it and has logged a little over 9k miles without an issue. We rode Saturday and again yesterday and had a blast. |
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10-05-2009, 12:21 PM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 14,556
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Well fellas, it's a scam! Hopefully we caught it in time! I feel bad because I should have asked more questions but my gf is a very good salesperson and convinced me that it was legit. I told her from the start that I would be happy to handle it for her and to have the guy call me but she wanted to do it herself.... It looks bad but there's a chance that she didn't lose her money because the credit union didn't try to send the money until about 9:15 and she called them at 10.... I just hope that it turns out okay for her! She is so impatient! Maybe next time she'll be more inclined to listen to an old guy.
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10-05-2009, 12:54 PM
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Semi-reformed Squid
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 531
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 Sorry man, couldn't resist.... Hope you guys caught it in time & her money is safe! Fookin' scammers. 
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