DGS49
Diamond Member
If you have ever tried to sell a vehicle on Craigslist, you have probably had the experience of someone contacting you within minutes of the posting, and ultimately trying to get you to pay for some sort of title report, similar to a CarFax. They are not real people, and of course they have no interest in buying anything, but they want to get you to spend $50 or so to buy that report, after which you never hear from them again. Selling my MC now, I had forgotten how this works. The following is a summary of three days of recent text messages:
Can you believe this a-hole went through all that to sell me a $25 report?
- Are you still selling your bike? (Remote area code on caller ID)
- Yes. The ad is still up. I still have it.
- When can you show me the bike?
- I'm retired. Any day but Tuesday.
- OK. I'll check with the wife. Probably come to see it on Wednesday.
- Has the vehicle (first clue that this is bullshit) ever been used to tow anything?
- Not to my knowledge.
- Can you give me the history of the bike?
- No. I've had it for a year, I put 3,000 miles on it. That's all I know about the bike's history. I bought it at [dealership] last year for [price].
- You can get the history of the bike for me by getting a report at this site (link provided).
- I send him the VIN. "You can get the history as easily as I can. Do it."
- But you can't sell a bike without information on the history of the bike. If I buy the bike, you can add the cost of the report to the price of the bike.
- When you show up to test-ride the bike, I will reimburse you for the cost of the report. (We're only talking about $25)
- I need to have that history before I drive down there...
Can you believe this a-hole went through all that to sell me a $25 report?