Alarm bells (1 Viewer)

[wardj2010]

Posted a mundane ad on Gumtree late pm and hey presto early next am there is interest but instinct tells e to beware

 

[Bailey58]

Strange offer and he will no doubt go on to say he'll arrange collection first and pay upon receipt costing him just the price of a courier. As long as he pays in advance there's no problem.

 

[WillysMB]

sounds like Typical SCAM..

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[Riverbankannie]

Strange offer and he will no doubt go on to say he'll arrange collection first and pay upon receipt costing him just the price of a courier. As long as he pays in advance there's no problem.

I think that there could be some way of scamming by saying not received and paypal recovering money from you?

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

Gets posted when the payment is securely in your bank account.
Mike.

 

[BouncyBoatFolk]

Ask where he is in the country, you might just get lucky and have, say , an uncle in that area he could pick it up from

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[Scotch mist]

Had similar many times , I knew it was a scam just couldn’t figure how they were going to do it
so I Just went along to see when the scam was going happen , what happened is I got a message from the so called courier to pay the insurance on the delivery, strange but true