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TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 7349
"Great! please consider it sold as i am willing to pay your full asking price because i need to buy it for my cousin asap, i have read through the advert and i'm totally satisfied with it,sadly i would not be able to come personally to collect due to my hearing loss and me being on wheelchair. I would appreciate if you email me with more photos (if available) since i'm unable to see it in person. I have a courier agent that would help me to pick it up at your preferred location after you have received your money and i'll pay you via PayPal today.

Where is the pick up location so that i can inform the courier agent about it now?" 


Any ideas for creative responses? 

Maybe I should say that the pickup location is 'the Police station where I work' ? 

Red ones are better. 
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  • mikeyrob73mikeyrob73 Frets: 4663
    ahh these are great, i get one everytime i put anything on gumtree, generally just ignore them. 

    poor lad, no hearing AND in a wheelchair 
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14030
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    poor lad, no hearing AND in a wheelchair 
    some form of modern 'pinball wizard' in there - but not figured it out yet - deaf, scum and ? kid - sure plays a mean ?  ?
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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 7349
    I presume they just reverse the PP payment or something? 
    Red ones are better. 
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  • SidNewtonSidNewton Frets: 660
    Offer to deliver it in person and see what response you get. I'm guessing none at all.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24578
    "I'm sorry, I just sold it to a lovely guy who works on a Nigerian oil rig who is buying it for his son, he's even paying me more than the asking price!!"
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  • TonyRTonyR Frets: 908

    poor lad, no hearing AND in a wheelchair 
    some form of modern 'pinball wizard' in there - but not figured it out yet - deaf, scum and ? kid - sure plays a mean ?  ?
    Changing it slightly the best I could come up with is:

    "He's a deaf, scum confined kid, sure gonna get f**k all"
    We are all Chameleons...
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  • fandangofandango Frets: 2204
    Mmmmmm ....

    Please consider it sold, but he wants more photos. DING DING RINGING ALARM BELLS! Buying it for cousin, but HE wants photos? RING RING! He wants to appoint some unknown to collect it, [so he can claim it never received it] DING DING!!! He wants your address BEFORE he pays for the guitar? DING DING DING !!!! THE ALARM BELLS are louder than a Motorhead gig.

    A polite 'thanks, but no thanks'.

    If it were me, I would take Paypal off the menu - because it's a buyers charter. Suggest cash only. No returns.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14030
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    fandango said:
    Mmmmmm ....

    Please consider it sold, but he wants more photos. DING DING RINGING ALARM BELLS! Buying it for cousin, but HE wants photos? RING RING! He wants to appoint some unknown to collect it, [so he can claim it never received it] DING DING!!! He wants your address BEFORE he pays for the guitar? DING DING DING !!!! THE ALARM BELLS are louder than a Motorhead gig.

    A polite 'thanks, but no thanks'.

    If it were me, I would take Paypal off the menu - because it's a buyers charter. Suggest cash only. No returns.
    in retail it is often the biggest con - They will pay for it on a credit card (chances are it is recently stolen) but will get it collected, be it a 3rd party collecting in the store - taxi/driver - or their appointed courier - so never go there with either option
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  • My Wife works for Gumtree.
    She will look into this scam for you if you can just confirm with me  your Bank account number and security code.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14030
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    TonyR said:

    poor lad, no hearing AND in a wheelchair 
    some form of modern 'pinball wizard' in there - but not figured it out yet - deaf, scum and ? kid - sure plays a mean ?  ?
    Changing it slightly the best I could come up with is:

    "He's a deaf, scum confined kid, sure gonna get f**k all"
    far better than mine so a LOL
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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3841
    Guy's disabled, ffs, you cruel bastards!







     ;) 
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 7349
    It's a lady actually (albeit one whose name changed between messages 1 and 2) 
    Red ones are better. 
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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3841
    TimmyO said:
    It's a lady actually (albeit one whose name changed between messages 1 and 2) 
    Ah, in that case, I think I was email pen pals with her for a while..!
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • skunkwerxskunkwerx Frets: 6838
    Paypal only under goods and state your own tracked courier will deliver it! 
    The only easy day, was yesterday...
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  • TonyRTonyR Frets: 908
    edited March 2017
    TimmyO said:
    It's a lady actually
    In that case: "SHE's a deaf, scum confined kid, STILL gonna get f**k all"
    We are all Chameleons...
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  • fandangofandango Frets: 2204
    skunkwerx said:
    Paypal only under goods and state your own tracked courier will deliver it! 
    And only delivered to the registered Ebay address?
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  • blueskunkblueskunk Frets: 2866
    Could possibly be the dreaded "bedroom dealer".
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  • sgosdensgosden Frets: 1993
    SidNewton said:
    Offer to deliver it in person and see what response you get. I'm guessing none at all.


    I had a similar thing when selling a car, you get an ever progressing crazy story of automated generic responses.

    by the time I got bored of correspondence, a private courier was coming to pay well over the odds for my beat up old mazda, to then have it shipped to Belgium, re sprayed sparkly pink, and getting 'totally pimped', for his daughter studying criminal child law and forensic palaeontology ... or some bollocks to that ilk. 

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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 27343
    TimmyO said:
    "Great! please consider it sold as i am willing to pay your full asking price because i need to buy it for my cousin asap, i have read through the advert and i'm totally satisfied with it,sadly i would not be able to come personally to collect due to my hearing loss and me being on wheelchair. I would appreciate if you email me with more photos (if available) since i'm unable to see it in person. I have a courier agent that would help me to pick it up at your preferred location after you have received your money and i'll pay you via PayPal today.

    Where is the pick up location so that i can inform the courier agent about it now?" 


    Any ideas for creative responses? 

    Dear Friend
    Thank you muchly for your very valued letter.  I am most happy to be in conversations with you on this earth and my sincere blessings for your offer to be helping with me.  
    Together we can save my dearest beloved the Great Reverend Most Holiness and receive the funds to continue his good works in this world and the next ones.
    You now agreed that it is most unfair that his hard earned funds have been seized in this way and we can now proceed to liberate them.  
    My Western Union account is now ready to receive your $10,000 donation to our most just cause and in return you will be receiving your just share in our endeavours.


    PS - I have some special blue tablets that might help your wheelchairness, given to me by the esteemed professor on the instructions of our Lord to be able to continue his good works.  If you would like to receive a sample, just add another $1000 to the donation.
    Having trouble posting images here?  This might help.
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  • OctafishOctafish Frets: 1937
    TimmyO said:
    Any ideas for creative responses? 

    Maybe I should say that the pickup location is 'the Police station where I work' ? 

    Or you could say the pickup location is at the neck and bridge?

    Have you got a dog? If yes, send them some pics of it's genitals from various angles?

    Discalimer - I'm not responsible if you get arrested for some dog porn offence.
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