gpfishingdude
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- May 1, 2012
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- 538
My wife and I have looked at a lot of used boat ads lately. Before I bought the 16' Starcraft off of Craigs list a month ago we saw an ad for a Ranger bass boat and it looked too good to be true. Now she finds an ad for a Bass Buggy that was too good to be true also. In these ads the boat is listed from one location but when you contact the seller they will tell you that it is located in another state for some reason. Somewhere quite distant from where you are located. The seller says they are too busy to handle the transaction themselves and that it will be handled through Ebay. Sometimes they say that the boat is at an ebay yard of some sort. I just thought that you should know that ebay has never heard of these people and although they say they will ship the boat to you and you will have time to examine it before they get their money from ebay THIS IS A SCAM. These people will not give you the HIN number for the boat. They act like they are too busy to handle the transaction themselves but they have plenty of time to keep emailing you with their story. I thought I would warn people that this scam is going on. We were lucky enough to ask for a HIN # and call ebay to verify that these were not legit.