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Scams etc. when selling or buying tech? 2017-02-24 12:10:48 Post No. 59088149
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Scams etc. when selling or buying tech? 2017-02-24 12:10:48 Post No. 59088149
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I was scammed for the first time a few weeks ago.
> Have old QNIX korea monitor I don't use anymore.
> DVI port is a little glitchy and sometimes loses contact.
> Decide to give away since it takes up space but I feel bad thrownig it away since it's probably easy fix with little soldering.
> Put up as free but defective on local craigslist variant.
> Note very clearly what is wrong with it and why it's free.
> Phone calls 5 minutes after listing went up
> man asks in thick arab accent if monior is still there.
> Meet up outside my house.
> meetahmedandkhaled.png
> they look critically at monitor noting and complaining about scratches in bevel etc.
> i tell them it's free they don't have to take it.
> "No money we make trade"
> okaywut.webm
> He pull out thick fake gold bracelet.
> I really don't want it but they Khaled starts getting intimidating.
> i cave in and take their trinket
> they put monitor in rusty fiat and drive away.
> give bracelet to my sisters brat on family dinner that weekend
> become best uncle for like 3 weeks.
> khaled (or ahmed) calls and screams about me being dirty thief because monitor doesn't work.
> hang up
> will probably get my throat cut in the next week.
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that kind of sucks but my sympathy is limited when I read "outside my house"
what were you thinking? this is like common sense 101 being neglected here, never meet at your house, always a public place
the ONE, single time I have ever met a person on the internet - you know what I did? I drove there hours before I was supposed to be there and scoped the place out, then showed up there later on and he was none the wiser (it wasn't his house, was a public place)
silly OP
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>>59088197
I don't know. They already had my phone number so they know where I live anyway. The whole reason was that I was to lazy to take a huge ass fucking monitor to the nearest recycling station.
I guess I expected the act of giving away something would entail less problems.
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Never give free shit to gypsies, or arabs.
Never, ever even deal with gypsies, or arabs.
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If they show up, pull out your trusty AR-15 and send them to Allah. Even better if you can do it on .223 Day.
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Such is life in multicultural paradise.
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You should have said something about an extra piece you forgot to get when he started getting intimidating.
Instead you called the police and this would have been avoided.
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>>59088720
*You would have called
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>>59088149
>he did it for free
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>>59088720
Hello police? There is a man outside trying to give me something. No, he is outside. I don't want it no. Yes I could technically just not go out again. Hello? Hello?
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>>59088611
I don't get the endgame though. Maybe they didn't understand it was free?
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