Keep your fingers crossed for me

[Kilroy]

and wish me luck.
I may  have located an original Wurlitzer 1015,  in good condition ( plays, good veneer  plastics look great)  for a good (I don't have to sell a kidney) price.

Yeah, I know this is a soda machine discussion board,  but I had to share the thrill of the hunt with people who understand.


Edit:
Did I say thrill of the hunt? It was more like walking into an ambush.
Long story short, ad is in Vegas Craigslist, buyer claims to be in Canada, but has  items at an Ebay Seller store,.
Yeah except:
- the item was picked up,  so don't ask what sotre its at ( uh huh, I searched, there is one only  store in Vegas)
- Wow, when does Ebay stores offer to sell stuff  offline? 
-   Hmmm, Thestore is supposed to be in Las Vegas, the address is Ohio, and the "registered clerk"  is in Florida.
- Oh yeah, the mail  is coming form an ip address  in Canada. Including  the store in Vegas, or  Ohio, or wherever its supposed to be. 

 - Did I mention an Ebay store  that doesn't accept Paypal, only Western Union  Wire transfers? Yeaaah

and if bells aren't going off, The pictures were lifted from another web site.
 So I'll file a report to Craigslist ,  and hopefully they can stop this nonsense.

Yeah, if it's too good to be true, it is. 

[sodaworks]

This has Nigerian scam written all over it.

[davethebirdman]

I had a very similar problem just before Xmas with a Rockola 78 player...
Listed in London but seller had it crated in France and free of charge was going to freight it to me.

He needed a wire transfer to complete the deal.

All written in very old fashioned broken English... Shame cos I thought I had a bargain too.

Rule of thumb... Unless you can pick it up don't buy it..

Dave

[Yarochrehc]

Very good advice!

[Kilroy]

I guess I understand why the Nigerian scam works so well.  The  "Too cool, I scored a sweet deal"  neurons over ride the  "Um, this  reeks of inaccuracies, and logically  you need to walk away, don't  look back" synopses bouncing  around your brain. (sorry, have the Discovery Medical channel  on the telly in the background)

The funny part is the  guy wrote back 2 days later asking if I got the contact information from the "Ebay  sell it for you store"  who had it.  Yeah, I did you Idiot.

I can only hope some one didn't fall for it.