16 Apr
2012
16 Apr
'12
2:12 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mouse" <mouse at rodents-montreal.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Official Spring cleaning sale
I was wondering. Given his insistence on pickup-in-person, it would be
hard to be a total scammer (by which I mean the "take money and give
absolutely nothing in return" sort). So either he's selling for real
or he is (perhaps very) willing to be talked around on the won't-ship
point. (If he's selling for real, the provenance of the things being
sold is another question, one I have no basis for more than speculation
on.)
Of course, for all I know it's also possible he's selling (eg) a G3
case with a fried CPU and a broken disk drive and RAM and claiming it's
a totally working machine, which would be another flavour of scam....
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The guy seems like a compulsive liar and will not pass up a chance to screw
somebody if he can get away with it (and the community has made sure that he
does get away with it for a decade or more).
I would bet he gets quite a bit of his spending money selling old equipment.
You could ask him a dozen times where he gets that equipment and you will
hear a different answer every time. I would guess that he snagged a bunch of
stuff from that warehouse find he bragged about last year all over the
internet (not his, helping a friend sell it etc). I would bet he took the
best of the lot without his "friend" knowing and is selling/sold it off and
kept the money (just my guess) and wants the broken stuff that's left gone
(come and get it, sorry its in a shed with no power so you can't test it,
trust me it all works sucker).
I do wonder why he joined here, since most people here may be trusting but
they have been around the hobby for ages and have heard of him. The sad
thing is there are tons of people who don't care how he got his stuff as
long as they think they are getting a deal. Just the fact that he can rejoin
68kmla and Applefritter AFTER he screwed the members over and still get
sales is rather sad.
How can this fellow continue scamming, year after
year?
To his credit some people have apparently bought from him with no
issues, but I'd still be wondering if any of the stuff he's flogging
now is part of the loot he stole from fellow hobbyists in his
prime...