An email responce to my sale- Am i being scammed?

Check out what's highlighted in yellow at the top of the page:

ah-hah..

yup yup. I see that now..

and here is what else they say -


scams and fraud

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That email is a little confusing. He's offering to send you a money order? That sounds ok but a little trusting of him. What information does he need from you, an address to send the MO?

I don't trust any of it, the shipping to his daughter abroad is weird and the language/ syntax is not that of someone who has a daughter old enough to be living abroad.

I didnt ask.

And yeah.. he is WAY too trusting.
Sight unseen purchase.. and wants to pay me more then what I have listed it for.

AND- he says ""so that we can close
the auction """

uhh.. this isnt an auction...

too many things make me confused. Too many questions and an assumed TON OF trust..

i dont think I like it..

Oh, I see. I took it as a non-English speaker.

But yeah, trust your instincts.

another red flag was this line for another reason --


,i will offer you
($600.0 0)for the Emu E-5000 Ultra Sampler (pics) so that we can close
the auction


it is exactly what I had in the sale listing. Including the add in ( pics) ...

cut and paste anyone?

There could be that (non-English speaker) but overall it's very iffy to me, and the fact that craigslist specifically warns against this kind of thing (I see the warning probably 10 times a day -- I'm still looking for some stuff) makes it even more uh-uh to me.

Very good catch. That pretty much cinches it.

Yeah, good catch. Definitely seems like something that he tries on a lot of people/ situations, copying and pasting the relevant item.

another good point.

The other letter I got was worded very well. Plain, understandable, NON broken english,

Scam, scam, scam. It's some con artist typing away in his little tin roof boiler room. The payment notification will be faked and the fact that he wants the item shipped out the country and is willing to pay more than the asking price is a real tip off. Odds are what he really wants is your banking information (claiming to make the deposit) so he can suck it dry.

Shewolf, if you are going to sell outside of your area you might want to consider a Paypal account.

Or just stay in your area!

Austin seems like a good place to sell something like that (though I have only the vaguest idea of what it IS..! heh)

Im not going to sell outside of the area. I cant afford that shipping. No way no how.

so that isnt an option

Even if this was legitimate..
Im not sure this equipment would survive..

It is a music sampler.
Basically, it has preset " sounds" that you can add on top of other sounds to make techno style music.

You can also sample the sounds of your own musical stuff and play them on the system and create songs with out ever turning on your guitar..

I suspect that the postal money order would turn out to be counterfeit or the payment stopped. There's another scam where they send a money order that's too large and ask you to 'em the extra cash....

You're selling an EMU? Is it male? I am looking for a mate? Can I drop down to Tex-ass and try him out?

Heeven.....

he is even a plug in