When you have a long conversation, with a knowledgeable individual, especially on something as odd ball as a 51 series Detroit,. your thinking on things is going to be a bit different than buying something sight unseen from someone who's 'selling Dad's XYZ that they know nothing about'.
As for the $200 deposit, it's really not alot of money, so you don't really expect a scammer to ask for so little....but it is what many would expect for two like minded individuals to agree on, as a show of faith, before putting forth the effort to ship the item (freight collect).
Thing is, that's the very reason so many scammers get away with their crimes. Even with an address most folks would rather write off the money, rather than go through the trouble of going after someone in another state.
My point here is that it's not about the money, it's the principal of the matter. Sadly the attitude I'm seeing seems to be that if someone gets scammed, they deserved it, and should just write off the money and move on. Again, that's why these scammers get emboldened to do something as brazen as giving a real address, and cashing a check for goods/services they had no plan to provide.
If the guy was just an unmotivated seller, vs a scammer, he'd have accepted calls, and returned the money. That's one thing. In this case, he did neither. That makes him a criminal, and his actions should be treated as such, as a matter of principal if nothing else, period.
As far as the same item being sold in multiple places, I understand the concept. However, when there are different email addresses associated with each picture, the wording in the add just doesn't jive, a Google image search shows it being a pic from a dealer site, etc, these adds tend to stand out.
Don't think so, contact one of them, and see what kind of response you get. In my case the woman had 'moved to Montana', was in the military, the trailer was ready to be shipped because someone else couldn't get a loan to buy it, it held bad memories of her deceased Dad, etc, etc. In other words, it was pure BS, and it was obvious to anyone who knows anything.
That's what got me looking harder at the other adds. That's when I began seeing different views of the same trailer, different contact info with them, listings in several states, etc. Then I started seeing the same thing with numerous other trailers.
In the end, my advice holds. Watch out for scammers, because they are getting smarter, and emboldened..... presumably because far too many feel like they are at fault for being taken, and don't care to put forth the effort to get back a small amount of money.
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