Odd offers to buy in classifieds?

[oldguy00]

Anyone else get some.....odd.....looking offers to your classifieds ads?

I have an ad for tires for sale. I got a reply from a user ID (removed), saying:

Hello,
I would gladly purchase your veloflex Carbon tubulars for your asking price of 155$
Let me know your PayPal account name and I will send the funds.
Thank you
J**** H***

(edited out part of the name he gave...)

Said user ID has been registered since 2013, but has zero posts on the forum....

[AngryScientist]

is that odd? it sounds rather polite, no?

[oldguy00]

Fair enough....I guess the wording (I would gladly....) combined with zero posts on the forum, just struck me as strange.

[ColonelJLloyd]

is that odd? it sounds rather polite, no?

I swear there was an almost identical thread in the last year or so and after a page or two of people suggesting it was a scam the potential buyer chimed in and it was legit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Nooch]

Fair enough....I guess the wording (I would gladly....) combined with zero posts on the forum, just struck me as strange.

Eh, some people just like to lurk. And if you're not a member or not signed in, you can't see attached pictures. So I get it.

[oldguy00]

Again, maybe I'm being over cautious. Zero posts in 4+ years and wording that sounds like junk email I get....

[jtakeda]

I think they’re just lurkers.

If they don’t post I usually don’t respond

[drewellison]

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I have an ad for tires for sale. I got a reply from a user ID (removed), saying:
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J**** H***

(edited out part of the name he gave...)


J**** H*** ... gotta be Jan Heine. I predict in the next BQ we will see that tubulars, plane better than clinchers.

[joosttx]

is that odd? it sounds rather polite, no?


Doesn’t look weird to me. What are you concerned about in the reply.

[cribbit]

I'd only be weirded out if they offered more than the stated price.

Bike people are weird, getting weird messages is normal.

[fignon's barber]

Could be worse. I had a guy waist an hour of my time this morning regarding the Assos jacket I have up in the classifieds. He committed to buy eventually, so I packed it up for shipment, only to get an email a couple hours later canceling because he didn't like PayPal's Canadian exchange rate (shipping to niagra falls,ny)!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[bostondrunk]

Doesn’t look weird to me. What are you concerned about in the reply.

Probably worried that dnovo and dbrk are trying to corner the market for veloflex carbons... ;)

[54ny77]

that's really lame. talk about amateur hour.

Could be worse. I had a guy waist an hour of my time this morning regarding the Assos jacket I have up in the classifieds. He committed to buy eventually, so I packed it up for shipment, only to get an email a couple hours later canceling because he didn't like PayPal's Canadian exchange rate (shipping to niagra falls,ny)!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[merlinmurph]

FWIW, I've never posted across the hall but visit frequently.

[cadence90]

J**** H*** ... gotta be Jan Heine. I predict in the next BQ we will see that tubulars, plane better than clinchers.

But the asterisks don't add up.

J**** H*** ... might be Jeine Hans, Jan's anti-planing second cousin.
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[thunderworks]

Anyone else get some.....odd.....looking offers to your classifieds ads?

I have an ad for tires for sale. I got a reply from a user ID (removed), saying:

Hello,
I would gladly purchase your veloflex Carbon tubulars for your asking price of 155$
Let me know your PayPal account name and I will send the funds.
Thank you
J**** H***

(edited out part of the name he gave...)

Said user ID has been registered since 2013, but has zero posts on the forum....

Regardless of past similar experience that proved legit, I'd be inclined to send the guy a reply asking for his PayPal account and offer to send a bill.

[cadence90]

Perhaps some of us are just too conditioned to be prematurely paranoid. I know that I unfortunately tend to be that way, and yet:

*I posted a Classifieds WTB for a black/blue Fizik Arione saddle.

*A few days later I received not one, but two PMs, offering to send me not one but two Ariones, for free.

*What??? I was immediately all looking-behind-me-all-around-me-antennas-up-suspicious-like....

*It turned out (also with the help of a very kind mod) that the PMs were from siblings, with of course different usernames, but only one had ever posted here at all.

*A couple of emails cleared up the confusion: the saddles were free because the "seller" no longer uses Ariones; is moving; and just wanted them gone. The sibling was simply trying to help.

*The saddles were packed very well; shipped faster than most "regular" PL members have ever shipped me anything; and are in perfect condition.

*The "seller" still refuses to accept any payment, not even to cover the shipping.

*The moral is: much to our far-too-insulated shock, sometimes people really are just being nice and polite.




The two siblings, you know who you are, and again I greatly appreciate your very kind gesture.

Cheers. :beer:
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[brewsmith]

Bike people are weird, getting weird messages is normal.

Hahaha, and paceliners seem to be a fair bit saner than my local CL bike people

[RobJ]

Anyone else get some.....odd.....looking offers to your classifieds ads?

I have an ad for tires for sale. I got a reply from a user ID (removed), saying:

Hello,
I would gladly purchase your veloflex Carbon tubulars for your asking price of 155$
Let me know your PayPal account name and I will send the funds.
Thank you
J**** H***

(edited out part of the name he gave...)

Said user ID has been registered since 2013, but has zero posts on the forum....

If you still have said tubulars I will pay you 3x your asking price and just send the difference back to my Nigerian account :cool:

[oldguy00]

If you still have said tubulars I will pay you 3x your asking price and just send the difference back to my Nigerian account :cool:

See, now this I trust, cause you have over 1k posts here! Plus, I'm guessing you are of Nigerian royalty, so nothing to worry about. :)

[michaelalderman]

It reads just like many a Craigslist scam text I’ve received. Totally understand getting weird vibes on this one!


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[jumphigher]

Honestly the inquiry to your ad sounds weird to me too, OP. I would immediately think scam if I had received that message along with the other factors you mentioned.

[joosttx]

Probably worried that dnovo and dbrk are trying to corner the market for veloflex carbons... ;)

Truer words never spoken

[cderalow]

If you had posted to craigslist I’d say scam as well. But 4 years waiting for a set of tubulars to send you a pm to buy them screams either a crappy scammer or just a plain lurker who never feels the need to add to conversations, but uses the forum to find good deals.


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[oldguy00]

The same day I posted this thread, I replied to him/her saying I had made a mistake, and that the price was actually $250, and asked if that was acceptable.
I haven't heard back yet...

[ultraman6970]

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/darth/images/b/b6/1064090-el_chapulin_colorado_2950_600x841.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160420155944



Perhaps some of us are just too conditioned to be prematurely paranoid. I know that I unfortunately tend to be that way, and yet:

*What??? I was immediately all looking-behind-me-all-around-me-antennas-up-suspicious-like....

Cheers. :beer:
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[rustychisel]

It reads just like many a Craigslist scam text I’ve received. Totally understand getting weird vibes on this one!


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Yep. I think your suspicion is justified because the script reads like a script...

[Mikej]

Will consider interesting trades....

[Kontact]

The same day I posted this thread, I replied to him/her saying I had made a mistake, and that the price was actually $250, and asked if that was acceptable.
I haven't heard back yet...

Why did you do that?


There are some aspects to the Paceline "culture" that leave me scratching my head. You would think paying for something would grant most people the privilege of receiving goods for sale.

[cadence90]

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/darth/images/b/b6/1064090-el_chapulin_colorado_2950_600x841.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160420155944
:D

Why did you do that?


There are some aspects to the Paceline "culture" that leave me scratching my head. You would think paying for something would grant most people the privilege of receiving goods for sale.

I don't get that either. Why would one say the price was actually $95 more, just to gauge a reaction? :confused: I know that I as a potential buyer would be 100% done with that seller right then.

And, who knows, maybe the potential buyer started a thread on a forum somewhere titled "Odd offers to sell in classifieds?" about a seller who raised the price on some tires by $95 just like that, and all the posters there are replying, "Yes, extremely odd behavior indeed...."
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[bewheels]

Sometimes things are made more complicated then they need to be...
Send an invoice through PayPay. Get paid. Sent items.

If the payment does not come in. Don't send the items.

[lzuk]

:D



I don't get that either. Why would one say the price was actually $95 more, just to gauge a reaction? :confused: I know that I as a potential buyer would be 100% done with that seller right then.

And, who knows, maybe the potential buyer started a thread on a forum somewhere titled "Odd offers to sell in classifieds?" about a seller who raised the price on some tires by $95 just like that, and all the posters there are replying, "Yes, extremely odd behavior indeed...."
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Agreed, your right to sell or buy from who you want but why flake out? PM's might have put you both at ease.

[oldguy00]

Why did you do that?


There are some aspects to the Paceline "culture" that leave me scratching my head. You would think paying for something would grant most people the privilege of receiving goods for sale.

Simple, because I'm pretty darn sure it is bs.

As for why don't I simply send invoice, etc., - Because paypal almost always sides with a buyer. If I send the tires, and he/she claims they were never received, even if I can provide tracking, I'm guessing I'd be in for a struggle with paypal. That is based on other folks having gone through the same ordeal, being able to show a tracking number being delivered, and paypal sides with buyer.

[ntb1001]

There is is enough "odd" behaviour to go around on both sides.

I had a a few strange encounters when trying to buy something on this forum.
I have had many good/great ones as well, but the ones that fall apart when I"m just trying to buy the item because the seller flakes out leaves me scratching my head sometimes.



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[R3awak3n]

Simple, because I'm pretty darn sure it is bs.

As for why don't I simply send invoice, etc., - Because paypal almost always sides with a buyer. If I send the tires, and he/she claims they were never received, even if I can provide tracking, I'm guessing I'd be in for a struggle with paypal. That is based on other folks having gone through the same ordeal, being able to show a tracking number being delivered, and paypal sides with buyer.

I think if you have a hunch then you should go with it, however, scamming people for tubular tires? that is odd

[oldguy00]

I think if you have a hunch then you should go with it, however, scamming people for tubular tires? that is odd

Why? Anything of value that can be re-sold.

Anyway, no big deal. It just struck me as odd. Move on.... :)

[R3awak3n]

Why? Anything of value that can be re-sold.

Anyway, no big deal. It just struck me as odd. Move on.... :)

I dunno, I just find it weird that he would pick such thing. If he was going to scam, why not scam for a $2000 bike frame?

But yah, I am not looking down on you at all, go with your gut. You are not loosing anything.

[oldguy00]

..... If he was going to scam, why not scam for a $2000 bike frame?.....

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Maybe he is doing that too....lol. I can only speak to the communication I received.
I've been buying and selling online for about 17 years now, have 700+ 100% feedback on the bay, bought and sold tons on here and slowtwitch.
His message just really seemed odd, and as someone else mentioned, almost a template from typical scam emails.

[C40_guy]

If you had posted to craigslist I’d say scam as well. But 4 years waiting for a set of tubulars to send you a pm to buy them screams either a crappy scammer or just a plain lurker who never feels the need to add to conversations, but uses the forum to find good deals.


Or a wheel hoarder. :)

(Here's the pot calling the kettle black!)

[C40_guy]

I think if you have a hunch then you should go with it, however, scamming people for tubular tires? that is odd

Tubasti glue sniffer? :)