......Either meth head or inbred.
You find all kinds buying on Craigslist, I had a boat listed a while back, a guy came to look at it, gave me a deposit, and never showed back up, the phone number he gave me was no good and a month later he hadn't shown up again. I relisted it and sold it again. The original guy never came back.
I answered another ad last summer and had the guy tell me he didn't want to sell the boat. After I drove a hour to see it and most likely leave with it. He tells me he just wanted to see what it was worth. He's lucky I've mellowed out over the years. I was not a happy camper after driving an hour for nothing.
The best one was an ad I answered back in June, the ad read "Alluminium moter bote wit/trailor" with no pics.
I knew by the ad titleI was in for an experience, but curiosity got the better of me. There was no email contact, just a phone number. I called, asked what make boat it was and how long was it. He couldn't answer either question, when I asked where it was located he said it's in his back yard. It took me 10 minutes to get an address out him. I then simply asked what make was on the title, he for some reason couldn't do that. I told him that I'm not driving anywhere to look at some unknown boat being sold by someone too uncooperative to simply tell me what brand it is. ( I was nice and didn't make any comment to the ad, or the spelling, or inbreeding for that matter). At this point my opinion of the seller was dropping fast.
After another 10 minutes he finally says hold on I'll go look at the boat and see what make it is. He comes back on and says it's a Load Rite. I asked if he read that on the trailer, he said no, its written on the boats 'frame'.
A few simple questions later and I was pretty sure he was just clueless and not a scammer, so I took a ride.
The boat was not aluminum, it was lapstrake fiberglass, the only aluminum on it was the windshield frame and rub rail.
The trailer was fairly new, and the outboard looked decent although older. The boat turned out to be a rather decent looking old 15' Sea King, (which was obvious by the two huge name plates screwed to each side).
I asked if his $400 price was firm, he said he needed $75 to sign his kid up for something, I said then $75 does it, he said sold. He brings out the title, and the title is for a Dodge pickup. I tell the guy he's got the wrong title, he insists it's the title he got with the boat. I can see that the title matches his pickup parked right next to the boat. It took me another 15 minutes to convince him that the title he handed me was for his truck, not the boat. He finally goes back inside and after some loud squabbling with someone inside, he comes out with a pile of titles and says here, pick out the right one. I dug through the stack of about 40 titles and other personal papers he handed me and found the title for the boat. The stack included several birth certificates and other personal certificates or permits.
My guess was he nor his wife could read.
