My BS'ometer is going off

[andrewspens]

I found this post a little while ago on the Seattle craigslist.
"i have 3 husqvarna 455 rancher chainsaws all in the box with brand new blades and chains all the manuals and everything youll need. 150 a piece or best offer. buy one buy two buy three doesnt matter to me but best 3 offers will win "
Does anybody else smell boxes that "just fell off of the back of the truck" here?

One hulluva deal, but I think I would be out $150 and start a nice criminal record if I tried to buy one.

 

[chainsawjunky]

I dont know, depends on whether your comfortable buying stolen goods:hmm3grin2orange:. I'm just kidding I wouldn't buy it(for reasons other than it being a husky ). Evan

 

[jhellwig]

How much stuff isn't stolen that is sold nib?

 

[GASoline71]

Yeah... well my give a dam is busted.

Gary

 

[chowdozer]

Yeah... well my give a dam is busted.

Gary

Ok, I'll buy you a beer to cheer you up. You'll have to wait about a month though.

 

[chowdozer]

I found this post a little while ago on the Seattle craigslist.
"i have 3 husqvarna 455 rancher chainsaws all in the box with brand new blades and chains all the manuals and everything youll need. 150 a piece or best offer. buy one buy two buy three doesnt matter to me but best 3 offers will win "
Does anybody else smell boxes that "just fell off of the back of the truck" here?

One hulluva deal, but I think I would be out $150 and start a nice criminal record if I tried to buy one.

I almost went for one of those saws. Then I thought, "What would I do with a Husky?"

 

[rreidnauer]

 

[ciscoguy01]

Ummm

I just got one thing to say here, "I wouldn't give $10 for a 455 rancher, JUNK is what they are..." Save your money and buy a poulan from wal-mart, same thing as one of those piece's of junk... I guess if your just cutting brush or something and you can deal with the chain flying off all the time then it's a good deal, lmao... :jawdrop: :jester:

Please tell me people don't actually run those for a living, lmao...

 

[chowdozer]

Nice one! LOL!

 

[JoeCanuck]

"Honest" folks & stolen goods

When I was a kid I had my first set of tools stolen from my parked car. Since then I won't even consider buying anything if there is any chance it was stolen.

Thieves wouldn't steal stuff (and stealing a guy's tools pissses me off more than just about anything) if there weren't lots of so called "honest" folks just waiting for a "bargain".

Joe

 

[Sprig]

When I was a kid I had my first set of tools stolen from my parked car. Since then I won't even consider buying anything if there is any chance it was stolen.
Thieves wouldn't steal stuff (and stealing a guy's tools pissses me off more than just about anything) if there weren't lots of so called "honest" folks just waiting for a "bargain".
Joe

Yup. Had too many tools swiped over the years (not for a long time now tho), I have always refused to buy anything suspect: Nothing lower than taking a mans tools imho. :chainsawguy: "Gimme yer wrist or yer ankle Mo-Fo!" :chainsawguy:



Serge

 

[chainsawjunky]

+1 thats nice(sorry I'm out though). It really sucks when someone steals your tools, lowest thing someone can do. It's never happened to me but I was helping a friend of mine on a job and a concrete saw got stolen out of the back of his truck. I once caught a guy trying to steal my dewalt air compressor, tons of cfm but very exspensive, he ran away though when I started yellin and I'm not the lightest and fastest guy out there. Evan

 

[Gologit]

Anybody know where Sap/Pas is? He should know about this. He'd probably buy all three. And get busted. And they usually don't allow internet access in jail. Does anyone see where this is going?

 

[BC_Logger]

yea that deal stinks stolen :fart:

 

[chowdozer]

Anybody know where Sap/Pas is? He should know about this. He'd probably buy all three. And get busted. And they usually don't allow internet access in jail. Does anyone see where this is going?

:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[rreidnauer]

I just nixed a fraud auction on Ebay over the past weekend. I was browsing the chainsaw category, and noticed a Stihl 440 recently listed in the "featured" column, I clicked the "ending soonest" button, and it was still there, showing it with only 17hrs left. It caught my attention, so I investigated. It was clearly a highjacked user account. One day listing, featured, by a user who hasn't sold anything since 2004. Also, the listing said, "Don't use my ebay account email. Contact me through [email protected]" Yep, one of those free anonymous email services. Clicked "see seller's other items" and there was a dozen other high-dollar items, cheap starts, no reserves, all listed at the same exact time for one day.

Absolutely reeked of scam, and yet, there was a bunch of bids by many people for several of the items. Amazing how people give away their passwords to emails asking for them. Even more amazing that people bid and pay for fraud auctions without any investigation.

I reported it to Ebay, and they yanked it before the auctions closed. Those folks will never know how much grief I saved them from, and I'd bet they were all ticked when they saw the listings dissappear.

Be careful shopping folks.

 

[chainsawjunky]

Yep I accidentally made a mistake and entered my eBay information into a copy of eBays sign in page except it was at a private webpage. Then the guy got a temp password and made bogus listings. Except the listings were like ":censored: Valentines Day". Some kind soul reported the listings and had my account frozen. I was out of town that weekend but when I got back I was still able to change the passwords and everything went back to normal with no harm done. Thanks to people like rreidnauer . Evan

 

[rreidnauer]

Just reported another fraud auction. Same item, an MS 440, same description, so likely same guy. Gotta watch that stuff.

 

[infomet]

Turn him in and see if the cops do anything. They might. I'm betting someone like this has been into other stuff.

 

[rreidnauer]

Turn him in and see if the cops do anything. They might. I'm betting someone like this has been into other stuff.

That's a tough thing to do. The person remains fairly anonymous. Whoever it is, highjacks someone else's account (usually through a fake e-mail to a legitimate user, asking for them to sign in for one reason or another, stealing their user name and password) Once they do that, they just log in, change settings, use one of those free email services, like gmail, set up a paypal account, and start listing items that don't exist. Usually they are one day auctions, so they aren't around too long for Ebay to find.

Ebay could prevent a lot of these fraud auctions from happening, but they don't. As long as they get their percentage of the sale, that's really all they care about. I'll back those words up with examples if anyone cares to ask.