If It Sounds Too Good To Be True . . .

toomanycats · Fri May 07, 2021 3:07 pm

1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom - $500.

Yeah, right.

https://charlotte.craigslist.org/msg/d/ ... 44233.html

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uwmcscott · Fri May 07, 2021 3:43 pm

Gotta be honest, if anyone is gullible enough to look at that photo and that price and think it's real they deserve to get ripped off.

BatUtilityBelt · Fri May 07, 2021 4:05 pm

To me, the biggest problem with these scams is that there is no disincentive. If they get caught, they get taken down, or (gasp) get their accounts suspended and have to create new accounts...

Scams persist because we tolerate them too broadly. I don't have a great fix, but it's food for thought.

mighty_duck · Fri May 07, 2021 9:00 pm

Seller seems to be a real peach:
https://www.justanswer.com/law/g7se9-pu ... -paid.html

uwmcscott · Fri May 07, 2021 11:29 pm

mighty_duck wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 9:00 pm Seller seems to be a real peach:
https://www.justanswer.com/law/g7se9-pu ... -paid.html

The person who filed that complaint seems a few bricks short of a full load too - sending $1100 via prepaid gift cards to a number different than the email listed in an ebay auction? Easy to pick 'em off when they are that gullible.

slowhand84 · Sat May 08, 2021 12:08 am

toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 3:07 pm 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom - $500.

Yeah, right.

https://charlotte.craigslist.org/msg/d/ ... 44233.html

00Q0Q_aF8Dl8Z547gz_0pN0fB_600x450.jpg

This exact ad scam has been pulled so many times there's a popular YT video by Trogly's Guitar Show about it. They post this in a bunch of different cities hoping to scam folks.

LancerTheGreat · Sat May 08, 2021 3:16 am

slowhand84 wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 12:08 am
toomanycats wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 3:07 pm 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom - $500.

Yeah, right.

https://charlotte.craigslist.org/msg/d/ ... 44233.html

00Q0Q_aF8Dl8Z547gz_0pN0fB_600x450.jpg
This exact ad scam has been pulled so many times there's a popular YT video by Trogly's Guitar Show about it. They post this in a bunch of different cities hoping to scam folks.

I mean I can spot a scam from a mile away but that's just messed up.

Can't believe this bad of an attempt would even be getting around that much but I guess there are many types of fish in the sea

toomanycats · Sat May 08, 2021 7:08 am

Not too long ago there was another listing very similar to the one in my OP. Expensive vintage Gibson Les Paul being offered way below market value. I'm not ashamed to admit that I bit on it, though not because I'm gullible and naive, but because I have scored enough crazy deals to know that unbelievable stuff can happen.

http://www.aguitarforum.net/viewtopic.p ... 8e32c84d52

EDIT: Now that I've looked at my older thread, I see that it is the same guitar being offered.

Sat May 08, 2021 7:35 am

toomanycats wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:08 am Not too long ago there was another listing very similar to the one in my OP. Expensive vintage Gibson Les Paul being offered way below market value. I'm not ashamed to admit that I bit on it, though not because I'm gullible and naive, but because I have scored enough crazy deals to know that unbelievable stuff can happen.

http://www.aguitarforum.net/viewtopic.p ... 8e32c84d52

EDIT: Now that I've looked at my older thread, I see that it is the same guitar being offered.

Pardon me for laughing but that is funny!