The scam is still active. It smelled fishy from the start, so I Googled and found this site. I didn't fall for it, so thanks for the headsup. Basically the same scam, no one sells a uesd TV from England and ships it free of charge to the USA. The shipping charge alone (2 day in the email) would eat up the cost. Here this email exchange I had with them, I asked them for the link, as I wanted them to hang themselves. I checked Craigslist again today to see it it had been pulled and it was already marked as a scam:
RE: the 42 inch Philips LCD, full HD, 1080p, $325
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:35 PM
From:
"Arianna Meyerson" <arianna.meyerson@live.com>
Add sender to Contacts
To:
*******@yahoo.com
Hi
I am sorry, I forgot to copy paste the TNT link. Here it is:
http://www.servicesuktnt.com/tnt.express.wolverhampton.depot.overseas.transactions/
Please read their procedure and get back to me.
Thanks,
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:36:29 -0700
From: ********@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: the 42 inch Philips LCD, full HD, 1080p, $325
To: arianna.meyerson@live.com
Hi,
Looks like the T&C link for TNT didn't make it through on your last email. If you could, please resend that and I'll take a look at it.
Thanks,
******
--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Arianna Meyerson <arianna.meyerson@live.com> wrote:
From: Arianna Meyerson <arianna.meyerson@live.com>
Subject: the 42 inch Philips LCD, full HD, 1080p, $325
To: *****@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 9:01 AM
Hi
Yes I still have the TV. But there is something that I didn't mention in the post.
Please bear with me on this. I am now in United Kingdom. I have been relocated here with my work several months ago. I was offered free transportation and I took the TV with me. But I can't use it here because it works on the NTSC format and here they use the PAL format. I tried to sell it locally but with no luck. That's why I'm trying my luck in the US.
Since I can't meet you and make the exchange, I found a service that will help us with that. Click on the link below to learn more about the service:
TNT is a worldwide delivery company but it is better known here in the UK. You can see from their procedure that you will be able to check the TV before I receive the payment. In this way the both of us can be at ease. I will use 2 day delivery on my expense.
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