It has been informative!
Which 18 shot semi automatic should I carry when meeting a potential buyer or seller? With a pet grizzly.
THIS IS A WEAK ATTEMPT AT A JOKE!!!
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Yes. In the worst case scenario, you are no worse off with a specific question than with is this available. IN the best case, you establish yourself as a serious buyer and set a meeting time and place in as little as three messages.
Roym, if you had limited skill in navigating technology and low patience for dealing with survey takers you might feel differently
String, Take whichever one you have a holster system for which allows you to get in and out of the kayak with no manipulation and provides excellent concealment while doing so. Some suburban kayak owners seem perturbed when a pistol falls out on the front lawn while one is contorting into a low volume ocean cockpit. Don’t ask me how I know, because THIS IS A WEAKER ATTTEMPT AT A JOKE!
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I’d be afraid it would snag and wind up in the water. Then my .41 C&B would be an an anchor.
OK, I didn’t want to post the long story of my very hinky would-be buyer, but here is the short version.
I had put a CL ad in for my Explorer LV. It was stored in a shed at our old home, which was not in a suburb or other densely-populated zone. One person asked it if was still available (I replied Yes). He next e-mailed a request for my address, with no information about himself, such as the typical phone number so we could talk. His real name was also not included in the e-mails he had sent. He had asked questions about the kayak, including specific ones about foot size fitting in the LV boat. I answered all his questions, sent photos, and advised him to not bother because size 12 feet would indicate needing a boat with a higher volume towards the bow. He never provided a phone number or even his first name in any of this correspondence, yet he repeatedly demanded, “Give me your address so I can look at it.” NOT ONE WORD ABOUT DATE OR TIME, as if I were a shop open 24/7 for unscheduled “visits.” Just GIMME THE ADDRESS. I dropped all correspondence with him at that point. Felt like he was playing cat and mouse. And the kayak would not have fit his feet anyway.
Fast forward about a year or so. We had moved to the PNW. I won’t post details, but this guy turned out to have moved to the SAME TOWN right after I did. He was not following me, thankgawd. It was a bizarre coincidence. He was a newbie at kayaking, extremely arrogant, ended up basically buying another LV kayak in ultralight and very expensive layup designed for advanced paddlers, sold it when he could not stay upright, and I believe eventually dropped out of paddling. His ego was too bruised.
And what an ego; I met him and knew he had never had any intention of buying my Explorer LV. In fact, when we were introduced (because both of us had moved from CO to the same town in WA), he looked at me suspiciously and immediately barked, “Did you just move here?”, implying I had followed HIM, when I had moved there first. Weird and incredibly rude.
As for the cat and mouse games, club members who had met him before I did and also thought him really weird told me he had gotten divorced, was dodging attempts by his former wife to find him (hmm, he might’ve been more of a jerk than I suspected), and had taken up with another woman. This woman had gotten a job in my new town, so he tagged along…wonder if they got divorced, too. He was probably a serial pro at getting women to support him.
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There is a kayak seller on facebook that sells new and used kayaks. When someone inquires about a used kayak…where he is located…he only wants to answer in private. He is located in Texas supposedly but seems to only want to ship your used kayak and not allow on site viewing of a used kayak before purchase. Sounds fishy, suspicious, etc.
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I recently got the same “I’ll send an ‘echeck’/shipper will pick up” b.s. from michaelwall9912[at]gmail.com. Wants to send me a check for my boat site unseen? Big red flag. I asked him (it?) what he meant by an echeck – it said it would email me a check as an attachment that I would then print from my email and deposit, and the shipper would pick up the boat after the check cleared. Aside from the fact that I REALLY doubt there is such a thing as a check that you can print from an email, the ploy to try to get you to open an email attachment is pretty obvious. When I said that this form of payment wouldn’t work for me he (it) evaporated.
A check as an email attachment? That’s one I hadn’t heard before.
Scum buckets.
The fake “michaelwall” has been a frequent flyer scammer on here for years. As I’ve noted over decades of buying and selling on line, whenever you see something advertised for sale OR coming forward as a potential “buyer” and their screen name is two common first and last names followed by a 2 or 4 digit number, that’s a red flag. The professional scammers don’t have much imagination and have rarely changed their ID generating algorithm.
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Sending a check as an email attachment is legitimate and I have used it to pay for liability insurance for our Club in the past. However, I would never use this method with a person or entity that I did not have complete confidence in. An emailed image of a check can be used as well as a a photo of a check for online banking.
I had a recent email from that same sender looking for my personal email address, along with several other scammers. There are rats out there for sure.