By Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PE, Canada, January 29, 2009
I’m repeating this article from Eclectic Mind – the same guy is trying to rip people off all over Canada, in Winnipeg, MN Fort McMurray, Al, Granby QC. According to one comment “This scammer is also selling motorcycle parts on Craiglists from the Atlantic Provinces.”
So be careful…
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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