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Dead 1
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 Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:15 pm Post subject: Saw this on Craigslist |
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No connection to the seller. Just a fyi
http://racine.craigslist.org/cto/5605351231.html
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Peabody
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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I've seen that SCAM on every craigslist around here. Please visit and FLAG. Fuck I hate scammers. 
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Dead 1
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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I sure will. Thanks for the heads up
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SGKent 
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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I didn't know you could still buy glass coke bottles. (in fridge)
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ROCKOROD71
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| SGKent wrote: |
I didn't know you could still buy glass coke bottles. (in fridge)
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Round here we call 'em Mexicokes or Hechos...they have real sugar in 'em too!
Beware the American versions with High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hechos have white border around the Coca Cola graphic and are in the tall bottles.
Sad an American product exists that we as Americans get the absolute worst version of it here, and must seek the genuine formula from our southern neighbors. Or Europe. they use sugar too.
/end rant
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Big Papi
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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Excuse the naivete, what is the purpose of the scam?
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Wildthings
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| Big Papi wrote: |
| Excuse the naivete, what is the purpose of the scam? |
Your money |
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zoobum
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| ROCKOROD71 wrote: |
Round here we call 'em Mexicokes or Hechos...they have real sugar in 'em too!
Beware the American versions with High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hechos have white border around the Coca Cola graphic and are in the tall bottles.
Sad an American product exists that we as Americans get the absolute worst version of it here, and must seek the genuine formula from our southern neighbors. Or Europe. they use sugar too.
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samwise
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| SGKent wrote: |
I didn't know you could still buy glass coke bottles. (in fridge)
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I've seen this in the grocery stores here:
It's the US HFCS version, but we can also get the sugar-based Mexican here, too
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| Big Papi wrote: |
| Excuse the naivete, what is the purpose of the scam? |
Usually a sizeable deposit via Western Union to hold on to it for you, the price is often too good to be true and the text describes a sudden panic need to sell, or just plays it like a seller who has no idea what it's worth. Sometimes they even have the balls to ask for the full sale amount up front.
The next day the phone number they gave you doesn't work and they've vanished.
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grandpa pete
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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Please make your spouse aware of these scams . My wife was planning to surprise me with one of these bargains . If her sister hadn't "ruined the surprise " we would have lost a $1000 deposit .
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Vee Dub Nut
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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Yup... that thing is posted all over Craigslist from here to Georgia (at least that's the states I routinely check  )
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2bugtony
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:30 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| It up in WV and OH now. I looked at it this morning. |
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Peabody
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:41 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| grandpa pete wrote: |
| Please make your spouse aware of these scams . My wife was planning to surprise me with one of these bargains . If her sister hadn't "ruined the surprise " we would have lost a $1000 deposit . |
This is a good point. My pops fell for the "Microsoft Tech Support" scam last week. An American dude on the other end of the phone with a "semi-legit" company. They remote into your computer, "show" you that you have virus/malware/adware/PUPs and then sell you their antivirus software and services for hundreds.
Luckily my pops shut down his computer as soon as he saw that the guy had control over his computer. I wiped his computer and fresh installed Windows just to be safe.
Public Service Announcement:
1. Microsoft will NEVER call you. Period.
2. A popup on your computer that is not from your installed anti-virus software is a SCAM.
3. If a price is too good to be true, it probably is.
4. Research EVERYTHING
5. If you don't know, ask a friend.
6. The IRS will never call you. (Over 5 million lost to date on this scam)
Report your SCAM to the FTC here: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#&panel1-1
Be informed of scams by reading here:
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0076-phone-scams
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madscout636
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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I have found with these sorts of listings, lowball the crap out of them. offer them $3k and is they knock thousands of in the blink of an eye or if they don't respond = scam.
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Peabody
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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| madscout636 wrote: |
| I have found with these sorts of listings, lowball the crap out of them. offer them $3k and is they knock thousands of in the blink of an eye or if they don't respond = scam. |
Not a good idea. Best to flag/report and leave them alone. A lot of them only want your email address or phone number. They then sell this information to marketing companies who then sell to other marketing companies etc.
Getting those recorded and hang-up calls from random numbers? It's because your info has made it into their system one way or another.
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SGKent
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 9:01 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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I am wondering if it is this bus?
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It happens. Like these two girls that spent their life saving on a 1971 bus and blew the engine the very next day.
The good news is that the type 1 engine is pretty cheap and easily available. You can probably find a good, used, turn key or a rebuilt long block for around $1200. You'll need to do the removal and replacement to get that price though.
Did you hear any bad sounds when the engine quit? Maybe see some smoke or oil on the ground? |
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Trashman
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 9:44 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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nope. thats not the same bus. the one in the ad had a white stripe around the tires as the girls' bus doesn't.
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williamM
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| Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Saw this on Craigslist |
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 -and don't replace it with that T-3 block you need one with an oil pressure sensor tap near the dist.-- Good luck. 
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