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914Driver SuperDork
6/18/10 6:46 p.m.

2001 Goldwing - $2850 ??

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mcy/1789088431.html

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MrJoshua SuperDork
6/18/10 6:55 p.m.

That looks like craigslist scam to me:
-Entire ad is one big picture instead of a mixture of pictures and text
-Contact email is off of craigslist
-inappropriate price

This random line above and below the picture is fun as well:
"not due to statistical coincidences, but intentional complicity and manipulation."

Good chance you email Tina and she is out of state and wants you to pay with some ebay pay system you have never heard of.

914Driver SuperDork
6/18/10 7:12 p.m.

Hmmm....

Weight in kg, (lbs. in parentheses) implies not U.S.

Who lists bore & stroke?

You're right about the ad, I wanted one picture and got the whole gag.

Too good to be true.

Wonder how Tina looks.

stuart in mn SuperDork
6/18/10 8:43 p.m.

Any Craigslist ad with a ridiculously low price and "contact me directly at scamscam@scammail.com" in it is a scam.

Until I got bored with it, part of my nightly routine was flagging ads on my local Craigslist; every day I'd flag 20 or more of 'em and the next day there would be 20 more.

Spinout007 GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/18/10 11:45 p.m.

3k for an 01 wing?!?! ZOMG GOTTA GO GET IT NOW!

SURVEY SAYS? XXX

A nice 84 limited will run you 3k, much less one less than 10 years old... though they were speed governed at like 110 or 120mph.. My dad's 84 will run 130+ Seems like a shame to put speed limiter on an 1800cc cruiser like that. The wheel base is so long, and they are so stable at speed.

BoxheadTim GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/19/10 1:46 a.m.

914Driver wrote: Wonder how Tina looks.

500lb and is only called 'Tina' on the weekend?

minimac SuperDork
6/19/10 6:10 a.m.

About a month ago this was posted on CL in the SYR area. Big time scam., to harvest email addresses. The story at that time was it was her departed husbands bike. You think they'd be smart enough to use a different name. Different ad, same scammer.

Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/19/10 8:43 a.m.

I found a "woman" selling an '84 Porsche 911 last week for $6500. Sure.

When I suspect a CL scam, I take the cursor and copy a sentence or two from the ad and then paste it into the Google search bar. I usually come up with a dozen copies of the same ad on Craigslist all across the country.