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Quoted from Murphdom:So I’m guessing about a year back I was looking for a Gottlieb Mini Pool. Today I randomly got an email from a guy about one I had to laugh about. I have no idea how he got my email address. I have no want ads on pinball classifieds anymore. This is all I got:
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Sounds like third party selling of information.... Maybe this was the last string of selling your email info to get to this guy.
I want to add a new line here to say thank you to all who have posted. I'm new to this community and want to say thank you all for an open arms welcome all around the site. This thread truly has made me a better buyer online and getting the valuable knowledge of the do's and don'ts has been quite eye opening!
Quoted from Doppler17:An idea for behind the scenes for sellers would be to send In a GPS pin drop at the location of the machine/their current location. Screen shot with current time and date stamp. Most here probably have a smart phone with that technology
Problem with this is that scammers are using burner phones, a phone like a trac phone, that they have no problem throwing away.
Quoted from BadMonkeyDJ:I have been looking for an old, non working cab for a while now and I found a guy on Craig's List that was moving and was giving one away in Lexington, Ky (I live just north of Columbus, Ohio). I sent him an email and got no response for a week. Then he responds and tell me he has already move to Utah. He put me in contact with his his movers who offered to deliver the machine to my house for $400. Neither the seller or movers could type a correct sentence. Is this a common scam? I'm more of an arcade machine guy but I wanted to try my hand at pinball.
I strongly advise you read through this entire thread about "Don't Get Scammed."
As a new member to this community I have used the words of advice herein to my advantage and personally will say has stopped me from getting scammed (again). I appreciate all who have commented on here. All the inputs are extremely valuable. I doubly strongly recommend looking at Vid1900 link that Robin made initially while creating this topic. This is beyond well put together. My personal thanks to Vid1900 for your time and dedication to creating that for everyone. Lastly, your particular Craiglist case screams scam. Hopefully you walked away! Best wishes!
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