Stupid Scammers, I Hate Them All!
So I posted a for sale ad on Craigslist yesterday. A baby bouncer, today I received an email from someone interested. I thought cool. They said they hope I still have it.
I replied yes, I still have it and to let me know when they could pick it up so we could agree on a place to meet up at.
They responded:
"Thank you for getting back with me
I just want to make sure i am going to buy the same which i am looking for.
I can't afford another mistake as i did in the past.
Please check the video and confirm that it's the same u have.
WATCH VIDEO
If its the same one I will be there today to buy it
Thanks"
How come I didn't notice right there and then that something wasn't right?
So stupid me goes to watch the video and it says I need to first download some crap FLV Player, so stupid me starts to download it, then while it's almost 50% downloaded stupid me finally realizes, OH CRAP! and try to exit out but it wouldn't let me, so I just hit the power button to shut off my computer.
I then restarted it but the crap had already done it's job. I clicked on Firefox and instead of the usual firefox/google homepage, BING comes up, huh? This was the address:
http://www.bing.com/?pc=Z001&form=ZGAPHP
I just went into Tools and Options and restored the default homepage but I wonder if this idiot is still somewhere on my computer, probably, I wish I had the money to have a computer geek come take a look.
I'm debating whether to send the person an email back telling them what I think about them, or saying "Yeah, it's the same bouncer" and see what they say back. What do you guys think? When I started typing this I was mad but now I'm more calm but still a bit mad. These people are retarded jerks that need to get a life
My experience is there are many, many good people online. It is those few that never learn. There is not a short cut to building a sustainable business. Sure there are awesome tools to help us, however we still need to be human. Victoria ;)
Like I said, what I said probably didn't make a difference, but it made me feel better.