[CR]subject lines(was":$1,500 for Ochsner frameset", should have been "pay scams"

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From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:41:17 EDT
To: reelfishin@netzero.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]subject lines(was":$1,500 for Ochsner frameset", should have been "pay scams"

It takes three seconds to type in the correct subject line, and in this case two wronmgs don't make a right. Thanks in advance

Larry Black Mt airy, Md

In a message dated 4/16/2004 1:07:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, reelfishin@netzero.net writes:
> Subj: Re: [CR]$1,500 for Ochsner frameset???
> Date: 4/16/2004 1:07:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: reelfishin@netzero.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent from the Internet
>
>
>
> One good way to avoid such a scam is to only accept "Postal" money orders,
> whether it be a USPS money order or an International Postal Money Order. If
> you check with the Post Office, they can tell you which country's they
> honor. These are cashed at the post office for cash in hand, no waiting
> period, you know if it's good imediately.
> Beware of the same type of scam on PayPal, there has been a few cases were
> a buyer severely overpaid, then simply asked for a refund, only to find that
> the E-check or initial payment was bogus. By the time you realize that the
> payment was a fraud, you would have already sent your real "refund" back to
> the scam artist. I just read about this about a week ago, local Police had
> cracked a group running such a scam here in NJ.
>
> Joe McKishen
> Vineland, NJ
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas R. Adams, Jr." <kctommy@msn.com>
> To: <jmedclay@hotmail.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:32 PM
> Subject: RE: [CR]$1,500 for Ochsner frameset???
>
>
> >
> >Beware of potential confidence scams. If you pursue this, I expect you
> will recieve an offer for purchase at an exorbitant price, but payment will
> be made by cashiers check that may be a forgery. If they offer to send you
> additional money that you are to forward to another party via Western Union,
> run away. The trusting seller deposits the forged money order, withdraws
> his own $ to forward, sends the frame, and then two weeks later finds out
> the money order is bogus when the bank dings him. Several of us have gotten
> such scam offers from postings on the CR list.
> >
> >It's not impossible that someone is dying for an Oschner and $ is no
> object, but insist on some sort of cash or equivalent transaction (wire
> transfer, postal money order or actual cash in hand) before shipping your
> property.
> >
> >Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: "John Clay" <jmedclay@hotmail.com>
> >
> >>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> >
> >>Subject: [CR]$1,500 for Ochsner frameset???
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:07:21 +0000
> >
> >>
> >
> >>Hi Listmembers;
> >
> >>
> >
> >>Based on the responses I've gotten the Ochsner frameset doesn't seem
> >
> >>to be exceptional. It's a nice frame, and no problem with that, but
> >
> >>not exceptional. So, why would someone offer me $1,500 for it?
> >
> >>
> >
> >>I put it on the CR site for trade for something that would fit me
> >
> >>and out of the blue I got an offer of $1,500. No reply to my
> >
> >>response which was that I would consider it after looking into what
> >
> >>it might be worth.
> >
> >>
> >
> >>The frame is signed though I can't quite make it out - the builders
> >
> >>signature is worse than mine. Sticker says "Handmade in Switzerland"
> >
> >>and it's of Colombus tubing - Zeta or something like that. The lugs
> >
> >>are thinned, edges squared and nicly executed but .......
> >
> >>
> >
> >>I am puzzled. Any more ideas?
> >
> >>
> >
> >>John Clay
> >
> >>Tallahassee, FL
> >
> >>USA
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> >>
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