Some responses to my Mystic Pinball for sale.  Anyways am always somewhat leary on email responses, especially the first one where the person doesn't even ask any questions about the machine.  I dunno something fishe about this one....  Dave Brown sounds a little two generic, but then again you never know.  And what about the third one, Barrister......Huh!  

Anyways before I respond what form of payment is best for international buyers?  Canadian Postal Money Order?  Royal Bank Money Order?  When I reply with the method of payment I am going to request a phone number to reach them at and also suggest they call me to discuss the machine etc.  What can I say I'm a bit of a skeptic.

What do you guys think?


                                                        flashman  

is this item still available and again can i know the can of payment method of you over there because i will like to issue out a check for you over here as a payment from me and when it clear you will let me know and after then i will contact my shipper to come over instantly

fishe mikel

Hello Seller,
Got your Advertise on Craigslist, i want to know if this AD is active, tell me the price you want the item to go for, and the present condition, I would be on the look for your Email reply.
Regards,
Dave Brown  

Hello,

My name is Barrister James Lennard, i live in London I came across your advert and am highly interested in Purchasing the {Mystic Pinball by Bally (1980) } which you offer for sale. Due to the fact that its been a long time have been searching for it, Please Kindly get back to me as soon as possible with the necessary answers to the question in mind,

(1) Are you the first owner?
(2) The present condition?
(3) Your final asking price?

And I will also like you to send me Pictures to enable me view what I intend to purchase and i will like you to know that my form of payment  is through a USPS Postal Money Order from my bank I await your urgent response so that we can proceed further..
I am serious in this transaction.

Regards,

James Lennard.

100% scam .. It's amusing I can hear the old Future Shop commerical voice overs as I'm reading number #3

I am serious in this scam ... er I mean transaction.  

All three sound like scams, don't even bother to respond as they will just end up selling your email address to junk mail companies.

fishe guy: No questions, just wants to send you money. lol. Ya I would love that to be true.

Dave Brown guy: Odd question to ask. Not worth the bother.

Barrister guy: He says he lives in London, yet wants to send you a USPS mail order? And since when do you get a "postal" money order from a bank? Fraud. If he was in London then he would want to send a Royal Mail Money Order (i.e UK money order).

I receive those kind of emails Constantly

it's 100% scam

The most common would be


>Hi is the item still available?

What is the Condition?  

then you respond


>I would like to buy im very interesed i will pay 200$ more than your asking price
im buying for my brother in Nigieria
he will pay you by stormpay or something like that


Those are always scams
sucks cause it seems like craiglist doesn't block those mother *****

Yeah, that's what I thought.  Thanks for the input.  Whenever I receive emails in "Strange English" it usually sends up red flags.  

Another good indicator of a scammer is that they never seem to follow up.  A further testiment to the fact that they're looking for someone reeeaallll stupid.

                                           flashman