Searching Autotempest, as I tend to do, I find a 57 Chevy in Washington. Cheap. But my spidey senses are tingling. Seems way too cheap, and the ad has been up for 13 days. This should have sold in seconds. And harm in calling, or am I opening up my phone to bullE36 M3?
That's about 2 hours from me, if you get really serious I could try to get down there to look, or help arrange details.
I think Tri-5s have been declining in value as the demographics with money to spend get younger and younger. That could very well be legit.
In reply to pointofdeparture :
Not a chance. Just from what I see in those photos, I could pay someone to haul it back to Chicago and get 5 times what I had into it.
In reply to Russian Warship, Go Berkeley Yourself :
That's what I thought.
Yeah, $2000 is way, way too good to be true.
So how does this guy profit by running this scam? He gets your phone number? Educate me GRMers.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
Probably to fish working phone numbers and e-mails to swindle Grandma out of her life savings. I looked up the number, and there was a rash of bogus IRS calls in 2015 (all phone calls from the IRS are bogus. They send official letters. Thats it)
They make it so cheap that your judgement goes out the window and you Venmo before your erection goes away and you think it through.
I forget what the psychological mechanism is called, but it has to do with risk/reward discernment. It's the same reason that some people fell for the Nigerian prince trying to give you $20M. The obvious signs are that it's way too good to be true, but some people assign a greater importance to the potential reward than they do the potential risk. The scam never would have worked if the Nigerian prince was offering twenty bucks and a six pack of Miller. The crazier it is, the closer you get to the threshold of where someone will take the bait
It's the same part of the brain that determines your level of OCD and your tendency toward addiction. Everyone's brains process cause/effect and risk/reward differently.
Yeah scam for sure plus the contact description sounds fishy alone. Plus an actual 57 vin is probably worth 20 to 30k.
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