May 17, 2004
Selling your laptop on Ebay
Noah once contemplated selling laptops on ebay and was approached by people in foreign countries wanting to buy the laptops for ridiculous sums of money. I thought that it was probably a scam. It looks like I may have beeen right.
This guy Jeff was selling a G4 Powerbook and ended up luring a scammer. The scammer tried to get the guy to accept "payment" from a fake escrow service and then to ship the laptop overseas. The "victim" in conjunction with a forum of thinkers, recon, and scam artists found a way to get the scammer back. Read about this international operation that ended up turning the tables and getting the scammer charged hundreds of dollars. You gotta see the pictures of the P-P-P-Powerbook that this guy sent him. I wonder if anyone ever followed up on the professor running the scam escrow site.
Posted by Bryant at May 17, 2004 02:25 AM