I have played this game before. A couple years ago on Craigslist was a perfect 1966 Matchless G80CS. Her husband died and it needed to be sold very quickly and it was for sale at $1800. It seemed odd that after a week it had not sold. I already have a 1967 G80CS so was in no hurry to purchase another one but was interested. Any request for more pictures and the bikes history resulted in her asking if I wanted the bike or not as lots of other people wanted it. I needed to send the money now! So I finally replied I could be at her house tomorrow with cash in hand to take the bike away. She just needed to give me her address. But immediately she had a family emergency and would not be able to meet me but would let me know when she was back home. She never replied back and the bike disappeared off the internet until a few months later it was back up at $1500. She had forgotten her previous story and the bike was now her son's and he needed money for University.
I placed an advert in Old Bike Mart this year as I am looking to buy a M21 engine and got no replies at all but I did get four replies from people trying to scam me out of my hard earned and their ploy was exactly as above except they lived in North of Scotland.
The great thing about this thread is that if anyone asks in the future "Do bears shit in the woods ?", I can refer them to Jan as he'll know !:grinning:
Mark Donald and Peter Deere both use the same IP address: 209.85.220.41 . Which means that (not surprisingly) they are one and the same person. This IP address is located in New York, USA.
Yep Peter Deer tried it on with me this weekend, tried to sell me a tank and anything else I wanted from an M20 he was breaking, a quick Google search showed me that the photo was from a Bonham's auction in 2008, I declined his offer and suggested he was a scammer.
