muckypup
Well-Known Member
As you know Harlequin is for sale as I want to take my boating in a different direction. She is on the usual sites, and I have had a few genuine enquires and then this one... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
<span style="color:green">
Good Afternoon,
I will like to know know your final selling price of the boat and if you have any available picture of the boat, i will like to see it with the present condition of the boat.
Regards
Dr Bryan Adams
</span>
Wow Bryan Adams is interested in my boat. mmm.... the bad spelling starts alarm bells ringing immediately. It might well be genuine so I replied.
<span style="color:blue"> I have set up a website with many more pictures and more in-depth
descriptions of the boat.
http://www.harlequin-princess.co.uk/
If you have any more questions then please don't hesitate to ask. </span>
A reply came in very quickly....
<span style="color:green"> I'm really glad to hear from you,I will have to contact my client in UK .who is owing me some funds of £90,000 to issue u the check....after you have deposited the check and it is cleared you will remove your money and send the remaining to my shipper who will be coming to your place to do the pick up of the boat.I'm based in France..if its okay by you i will need your info below.
Full Name:
Address:
State:
Zip code:
Country:
Phone number:
As soon as i get your info i will contact my client to send cheque to you via ups or fedexs...consider the boat sold to me...hope to hear from you soon... </span>
Ah.... as I suspected. France my arse, more like nigeria! But the weather is naff and SWMBO wants me to board out the loft so I take the time to reply.
<span style="color:blue"> Ah, France.. I own several properties in France. Where are you based? Do
you not wish to view the boat in person?
</span>
Any sensible purchaser would want to view the boat, survey the boat, sea trial the boat.... reply was
<span style="color:green"> I live in paris and i am a very busy person so i won't be able to come see the boat so get back to me will all the information i asked for th my previous mail..
Full Name:
Address:
State:
Zip code:
Country:
Phone number:
So that payment can get to you intime....we could arrange meeting maybe after this transaction... </span>
Yeah right as if he is getting any details off me. The tone is getting stroppy though. I wonder how long I can milk it. I send back the following.
<span style="color:blue"> Paris, I know it well. I travel there on a regular basis with work and will be over in a couple of weeks. We could meet up and I could show you more pictures and you could read the surveyors report. How were you thinking of shipping the boat over?
</span>
Actually I don't go to paris very often but he will not know that. His reply was...
<span style="color:green"> i need this boat next week...it a surprice package i have for my wife so i need you to get back to me now and we could arrange something later...we could even do business together sometime... </span>
Wow... I wish SWMBO would buy me a new boat as a "surprice" package. As for business I'll bet my dog that as soon as he received some money he would vanish off the face of the earth. I'll try a Bryan Adams reference and see if he notices...
<span style="color:blue"> That would be a nice surprise for her! My wife and I have always wanted a boat since back in the summer of '69. You wouldn't be able to get her to france for next week - I know the marina is booked up for lift-outs for the next two weeks. You would then have to arrange a lorry (the boat is too big for car and trailer). Have you considered simply sailing her over the channel? </span>
<span style="color:green"> I have made arrangment for the boat my shipper will come pick it ... </span>
Ok, I'll try the money aspect.
<span style="color:blue"> Who is the shipping company? I mean £35,005 is a lot of money to transport a boat to france. I could give you the numbers of a couple of local transport companies here who will be much cheaper? Most of them will accept cheques or credit cards so you could pay them directly.
</span>
immediate reply of
<span style="color:green"> dr_bryan_j4@yahoo.co.uk
... This user doesn't have a yahoo.co.uk account (dr_bryan_j4@yahoo.co.uk)
</span>
Looks like he got cold feet and bailed out! Be careful out there... it's a jungle!
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Steve
<span style="color:green">
Good Afternoon,
I will like to know know your final selling price of the boat and if you have any available picture of the boat, i will like to see it with the present condition of the boat.
Regards
Dr Bryan Adams
</span>
Wow Bryan Adams is interested in my boat. mmm.... the bad spelling starts alarm bells ringing immediately. It might well be genuine so I replied.
<span style="color:blue"> I have set up a website with many more pictures and more in-depth
descriptions of the boat.
http://www.harlequin-princess.co.uk/
If you have any more questions then please don't hesitate to ask. </span>
A reply came in very quickly....
<span style="color:green"> I'm really glad to hear from you,I will have to contact my client in UK .who is owing me some funds of £90,000 to issue u the check....after you have deposited the check and it is cleared you will remove your money and send the remaining to my shipper who will be coming to your place to do the pick up of the boat.I'm based in France..if its okay by you i will need your info below.
Full Name:
Address:
State:
Zip code:
Country:
Phone number:
As soon as i get your info i will contact my client to send cheque to you via ups or fedexs...consider the boat sold to me...hope to hear from you soon... </span>
Ah.... as I suspected. France my arse, more like nigeria! But the weather is naff and SWMBO wants me to board out the loft so I take the time to reply.
<span style="color:blue"> Ah, France.. I own several properties in France. Where are you based? Do
you not wish to view the boat in person?
</span>
Any sensible purchaser would want to view the boat, survey the boat, sea trial the boat.... reply was
<span style="color:green"> I live in paris and i am a very busy person so i won't be able to come see the boat so get back to me will all the information i asked for th my previous mail..
Full Name:
Address:
State:
Zip code:
Country:
Phone number:
So that payment can get to you intime....we could arrange meeting maybe after this transaction... </span>
Yeah right as if he is getting any details off me. The tone is getting stroppy though. I wonder how long I can milk it. I send back the following.
<span style="color:blue"> Paris, I know it well. I travel there on a regular basis with work and will be over in a couple of weeks. We could meet up and I could show you more pictures and you could read the surveyors report. How were you thinking of shipping the boat over?
</span>
Actually I don't go to paris very often but he will not know that. His reply was...
<span style="color:green"> i need this boat next week...it a surprice package i have for my wife so i need you to get back to me now and we could arrange something later...we could even do business together sometime... </span>
Wow... I wish SWMBO would buy me a new boat as a "surprice" package. As for business I'll bet my dog that as soon as he received some money he would vanish off the face of the earth. I'll try a Bryan Adams reference and see if he notices...
<span style="color:blue"> That would be a nice surprise for her! My wife and I have always wanted a boat since back in the summer of '69. You wouldn't be able to get her to france for next week - I know the marina is booked up for lift-outs for the next two weeks. You would then have to arrange a lorry (the boat is too big for car and trailer). Have you considered simply sailing her over the channel? </span>
<span style="color:green"> I have made arrangment for the boat my shipper will come pick it ... </span>
Ok, I'll try the money aspect.
<span style="color:blue"> Who is the shipping company? I mean £35,005 is a lot of money to transport a boat to france. I could give you the numbers of a couple of local transport companies here who will be much cheaper? Most of them will accept cheques or credit cards so you could pay them directly.
</span>
immediate reply of
<span style="color:green"> dr_bryan_j4@yahoo.co.uk
... This user doesn't have a yahoo.co.uk account (dr_bryan_j4@yahoo.co.uk)
</span>
Looks like he got cold feet and bailed out! Be careful out there... it's a jungle!
/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Steve
