Fahrenheit531 

Check out the ultimate in stem shifters, courtesy of this Tiger brand 10-speed:

thumpism 

Not a bike but it matters not.

https://richmond.craigslist.org/zip/...877214043.html

Free hunk of metal - previously a lawnmower (Bon Air)


condition: salvage
make / manufacturer: John Deere
model name / number: D110 I had my John Deere D110 riding lawnmower go up in flames the other day. If you would like the metal remains of it you just need to come and pick it up. It accessable by vehicle.

Let me know if you are interested.

mixteup

I like it !

bikecrate

How does that happen? Smoking while filling the tank up?

madpogue 

^^^^ Or filling the tank while it's running (spark). Whole gas stations blow up that way, yet you still see people with spark-ignition engines filling the tank while the engine is running.

Note, BTW, the distance between the camera and subject....

RubeRad

... is much greater than the distance between the subject and that wood fence, or that wood shed, or that wood chicken coop?

CliffordK

Good place to mount your warning bells?

RubeRad

If you crash you might get hit right in the bells

Fahrenheit531 

^ You forgot to include the $500 punchline.

CliffordK

Ohhh... The extremely rare 600 DX version. One of a kind?

Not the far more common 600 AX version.

xiaoman1 

Now that's HOT!

madpogue 

Once again (the fender makes it all the more ).....

https://madison.craigslist.org/bik/d...877847660.html

Folding bike - like new - $90 (East Madison)

Archangel1183

The picture of bigfoot was clearer.

madpogue 

^^^^ Photo taken from Google street view, garage door happened to be open....

deux jambes

Gets ‘em every time...

himespau 

I don't get it.

deux jambes

Typical CL scam. If I didn’t tell them they were being reported, the person posing as a buyer was going to send me a “google phone verification code” in their next message. They would instruct me to send the code back to them claiming that would prove that my ad is real. But doing so would link my phone number to fraudulent acts they’d commit. If you haven’t seen this scam then you haven’t sold much on Craigslist.

Its always an out out of town area code. They almost always use the ads full title in their first text. And their English is usually pretty broken.

There are lots of mention of this scam online. For example...

https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/vi...hp?f=6&t=85110

madpogue 

^^^^ Somebody should (or maybe somebody already has) come up with an app that allows you to send them a code that makes it appear to verify that "you are real", but links to completely bogus information, all the while fishing for the source of where they're attempting to mine it. I.e. "scam-back".

Simplest protection against this - DON'T DO CL with a smart phone. CL Email is anonymized; another advantage to "C&V" technology.

RubeRad

Or just send them a different verification code. If they say it's wrong, ask them to send you another. Rinse. Repeat.

deux jambes

That be giving them more time than I care to. And, I’d much prefer to scare the sh*t out them if I can. They never respond after reading “FBI!”

himespau 

Yeah, I don't own a smart phone. The only cell phone I own is a pay as you go deallie that I keep in the car for emergencies (sometimes take it with me on very long rides) or when I have a rare instance that I need to text someone (my kids' friends' parents only want to communicate that way, but it's hard with an old flip phone). I'm definitely a luddite when it comes to phones and I only do CL via e-mail. After a couple of messages, I to to landline.

Darth Lefty 

Why after 20 years (30?) of internet scams have the scammers not figured out that their language is the tip-off?

CliffordK

Well, some of us haven't seen that. Although I might get suspicious when a person will only talk to me with my doing some verification something.

I've actually had several Craigslist purchases were 100% of the communication was via texting. In fact, about the only thing I use Texting for is Craigslist.

When I was using Yahoo chat, I'd get some random foreign "women" popping up. I'm not sure how they found me, but the first thing they would always do was start with a beep.

That was almost 100% indicative of a fraudulent person from outside of the USA.

Anyway, so I'd have a little fun. They would claim to be Americans, and list a state. So, I'd try to come up with some obfuscated questions that Americans from the place they listed would know the answer to.

So, for example, the one from Ohio, I asked, "What Ohio city was named after a famous explorer?"

For the Florida resident, I asked "Who is Andrew?" While it wasn't exactly a "Who" question, anybody from Florida would have the answer.

Archangel1183

Yep. That's actually "getting them". I sometimes pretend to be a scammer too and tell them that Google is going to call them to verify their account.

himespau 

I wonder if there has been an unofficial moratorium on new babies being named Andrew in Florida in the last 30 or so years.