Craigslist/other sellers-how do you deal with lowballers?

[Reverend]

I never sold online(ebay or amazon)
but those of you who did or do,
do you find your products selling quickly?

I revisit many products on amazon and find the same merchants selling the same used product for months. It is not moving.

I only sell things occasionally and if I know they will sell. It's a poor system, but it gives me some extra cash. The part about the stagnant Amazon items is that the merchants lower the price to nothing (sometimes). Just recently, I got all 4 seasons of Samurai Jack for about $30 (the retail price of just one season).

[wip3outguy7]

For the right way to deal with scammers. Here ya go,

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/

Wow, what a read! Which is one of the reasons I think the story is false. The layout, the characters, the circumstances are all very entertaining - a little too entertaining. I would almost be willing to claim that a famous author concocted this as a viral internet experiment. Much in the vein that Year Zero was put upon us from Nine Inch Nails.

The tale has a very novel or short story feel to it. It even has the little twists and turns. It has the eerie ending where we are robbed of the satisfaction of the hero sticking it to the bad guy... but in a sick sense we are satisfied because it feeds that paranoid animal in most of us that believes that there is someone behind the curtain, pulling the strings.
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But what if it is true?

I think it's safe to say that Jeff is dead.

The emails Jeff received from the buyer were obviously written by different people. My theory is that he brushed up against an organized crime syndicate in this prank. I believe that many of these scams originate from these very groups. They shadily employ groups of people, possibly even in a cubical like setting, who send out constant lures in hopes that someone will take the bait. They work at it all day and through millions of auctions and e-sales listings.

I believe the scams usually have processes. You make contact with someone who is trying to entice you. Once you begin a dialog the case is handed off to another individual or department that is involved with the instructions and transactions. These groups might be in completely different countries, explaining why the grammar quickly became worse when Jeff began talking "money".

The barber shop was an obvious front or branch belonging to said crime syndicate. The owner was probably paid to receive packages and hand them off to someone else. That someone then would have shipped the merchandise to another location or possibly handed it off to a r/l retail outlet where it would have been resold or possibly listed on another auction site.

Jeff pushed things too far. He cost this group money (probably not much by their standards) and he humiliated them in their branch (his online friends' doing). He also bragged about the entire process online and went above and beyond to make sure the group would pay taxes and receive the false item. If I'm not mistaken, he also put his return address on the package. So he was attacked online. And I wouldn't be surprised if someone showed up to his house shortly after and took care of him physically as well.

If the group is an organized syndicate of some kind it makes perfect sense. You fuck over the mob and what do they do? Why do they do it? To make an example... word gets out and people fear the mob. International internet crime syndicates probably function the same way. I know I would think twice about fucking with online scammers after reading that story.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

That website polishes up the stories to have that feel. It was posted on his blog before hand, this one is just an easier to read and make sense of.

[wip3outguy7]

Well... if it is true... that's just creepy.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Did someone say crime syndicate?

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[wip3outguy7]

A syndicate...

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

A syndicate...

A Syndicate War...

[molotovwars]

An off-topic thread...
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[HappehLemons]