I almost got ripped off on a Mac Pro today. David Cole answered my Kijiji add in Charlottetown with a sweet deal that was a total scam. His email addresses are gloryandpride@msn.com and david.cole@msn.com.
The add from last month, when my XP box was dying, said
Wanted: MacPro or iMac Quad or dual quad is best configuration although I will consider anything midrange and up
Everyone was telling me a quad Mac Pro would do video editing better and faster so that’s the way I was going. A new one was like $8,000 plus taxes, too much for my unpaid, never profit organization.
Not one peep from the ad until today when a guy emailed me and offered this for $2,600
Newest 
Charlottetown Ads for “Mac” in computers 15-Dec-08
MINT Apple Mac Pro 3.0GHz Xenon 8-Core SuperWorkstation ($2,600.00)
Super, it was the cat’s ass. Everything, not an option missing – a real $9,000 loaded Mac Pro Quad,
3.0 GHz 8-core Mac Pro workstation Operating System:Mac OS X 10.6, Leopard Memory (RAM):8 GB
Hard Drive Capacity:1.2 GB • 1.25TB Storage (500GB Boot Drive + 750GB Secondary Drive)
12GB of 800mhz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC memory (6x2GB)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR4 memory (two dual-link DVI)
Two SuperDrives: 1. Upgraded Pioneer DVD-RW 20x DVR-116D Burner & Pioneer DVD-RW 16x DVR-112D Burner
AirPort Extreme card/Bluetooth + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Under Apple’s full 1-year warranty until 8/7/2009.(Serial No. G88330DHXYL)
Memory: 12GB of 800MHz DDR2
Included accessories:Apple Wireless Keyboard,DVI to VGA Adapter,USB Keyboard Extension Cable
30″ Apple HD Cinema Display
There was a sorta of amateurish picture and cut and part of the ad from original text and part cut and paste from Apple.
Checked out the listing. A dream come true, someone in Charlottetown who has what I want at 1/3rd the price. Wrong – whenever something is too good to be true, it is.
I was a little wary so I said yes, then he dropped the price to $2,400 if I acted right away. When I asked for a copy of his Apple invoice I got something with all the names blocked out. Hmmm.
Then I found out he was “travelling on business” but if I sent $2,000 in 2 envelopes to eBay or the post office – it was getting nutty by then – eBay would release the computer from the shipping company in Victoria (BC) while he was in London, England.
The whole thing had a great style of increased excitement to bite now! Do it, I’m a family man and you can trust me.
But of course, once your antennae are up, they don’t go down. Scouting around I found the same ad in Toronto.
So no id, no purchase invoice, and no warehouse in Victoria BC. He may be a family man but he is a good con man too.
I guess that’s why Kijiji is for local business.
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