Does this look familiar

[get me on the road]

The scammer wants to send a bogus payment in the form of a check or in this case a bogus cashiers check, they also tend to be very generous adding an unusually high amount "for your trouble" and all they ask is that you return an amount that you feel is reasonable to them.

In other words I agree to buy your snipe for 500 dollars but I am going to send you a check for a thousand dollars and ask that you take care of the snipe packaging and shipping and in return for doing that you keep whatever you think your time and effort was worth,

So you deposit my hot check and then turn around and send me 3 or 4 hundred dollars or whatever, thinking that you really screwed me over when in fact I know my check wont clear and I just in fact screwed you.

I am guessing that the cashiers check would work the same way.[/QUOTE]



So uh....?....has someone actually sent an item to a buyer with out getting the check cleared? I mean I dont want to put anyone down, in anyway, but sending an item before the check clears, just seems........?........ I dont know???? Not very prudent. Thanks for explain it that though.

[marcuspboldt]

Well I actually didn't even think about somebody possibly sending an item that they haven't been paid for.

I can't say that I haven't done it because I have, but it was with people that I had dealt with previously.

[krue]

Originally Posted by get me on the road

So uh....?....has someone actually sent an item to a buyer with out getting the check cleared? I mean I dont want to put anyone down, in anyway, but sending an item before the check clears, just seems........?........ I dont know???? Not very prudent. Thanks for explain it that though.

The problem is the check will clear your bank, it typically takes a few weeks for them to realize it's a scam, then they get the money back out of your account. So you are out of luck.

[get me on the road]

Thanks krue. The only "scammers" that I have had to deal with were the crack heads that would come by the auto repair shop I worked at and try to sell you tools that they stole from the other shops in the area. I got lazy one day when I got back from lunch and didnt put my fishing pole back in my truck. Like 2 hours later it was gone.