Odd offers to buy in classifieds?
 

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....

is that odd? it sounds rather polite, no?

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

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)_/¯

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.

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

I think they’re just lurkers.

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

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

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

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

Bike people are weird, getting weird messages is normal.

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:

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

that's really lame. talk about amateur hour.

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

But the asterisks don't add up.

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