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ZippoZ
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weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF
#4832926 - 10/21/05 01:40 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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SO i was selling my jeep with my snowplow in it, i was asking 3k, looikng to get somthingn like 2500, anyways... i for some reason had a really hard time getting the listing on craigs list.... but found someone that was looking to buy one...
i called him up and he came out and saw the jeep, he was only in it for a second, didnt drive it, didnt test the trans, brakes, or 4wd. he just had me turn it on. i mean if yore looking to get a car, dont you take it on a test drive????
anyways, he said that he would buy it, and said he only had $800 on him that he would give me as a retainer. I kept the keys and the title.....
so i had him sign that he would buy the jeep for 2250, and put $800 down, and pay the rest within 2 weeks.
what kind of a person, buys a car without driving it???? i mean shit, it had some problems with the steering, and the brakes, and i tried to explain the to him, but he refused to drive it....
i should note that he says he is a chicago cop, and rolled up in an un-marked cop car.... as he pulled off he tapped his siren for me.....
either way i have $800 of his cash.... and i still have my jeep, and he dont have the keys or title... so i dont see this as being a problem... i mean i contacted him about a listing he had online. its not like some dude came after me, but still its so fucking weird....
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Microcosmatrix
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: ZippoZ]
#4832938 - 10/21/05 01:45 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Burn that pig!!! Do shit to the vehicle that will render it inoperable after a few weeks of driving. Put small slashes in the tires so that after a time they'll blow out. Have fun with that bacon!
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I_was_the_walrus
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4832950 - 10/21/05 01:54 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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on your way to sell him the car, fart in it alot. get all your friends, eat at some awful mexican restaurant, roll the windows up...and just fart for hours.
come on...it'll be hillarious
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ZippoZ
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4832951 - 10/21/05 01:55 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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i harbor no ill will torards him, ok he's a cop, big whoop, im notoging to fuck with him because of that.
it seems after googling his e-mail and phone numerb that he has been looking for a jeep with a plow far and wide.... still , its weird that he didnt drive it at all.....
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Srirachi
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4832952 - 10/21/05 01:55 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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He probably just wants it to plow with and assumes the frame is bent as hell from you ramming drifts with it. Doesn't care if it drives good or not...
OR
the cop was going on a drug buy with 20 grand and decided to keep it... or all but $800 of it anyway... and needed a way to get you to take the money from him. Later on, when the teargas has mostly cleared out of your house, his dirty swat team buddy he's splitting the money with will take your copy of the contract out of your... but hey man, probably he just needs a snowplow maybe.
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Androctonus
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4832953 - 10/21/05 01:56 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Androctonus
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Androctonus]
#4832956 - 10/21/05 02:01 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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The guy probably doesn't know shit about cars and didn't want to embarrass himself. Hopefully he doesn't show up with his know it all buddy and try to back out of the deal. I hate selling cars. With some of the assholes that call and come by I'd rather sink it in the quarry than deal with that bullshit again.
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: ZippoZ]
#4833006 - 10/21/05 02:43 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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yea, don't do shit to the car just because he's a cop 
You know, cops aren't so bad. I know becuase my cousin is a police dispatcher for two stations. The cops are funny as hell too
but yea, maybe he was nervous? or he didn't know how to drive a stick?
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: ZippoZ]
#4833009 - 10/21/05 02:44 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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if youre keeping the title till you get your cash i wouldnt be tooo worried.. thats where most fraud occurs, when somone signs over a fake cashiers check to you for the title.
-------------------- Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect GODDESSES Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud GODS. ~Casil
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badchad
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Todcasil]
#4833144 - 10/21/05 06:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Or, maybe he knows a lot about cars and figures he can fix whatever problems may arise.
I mean, 3K really isn't all that much for a vehicle. He has little to lose.
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Androctonus
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: badchad]
#4833314 - 10/21/05 09:02 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Even a competent mechanic would not buy a car without going over it carefully.
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ZippoZ
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Androctonus]
#4833537 - 10/21/05 11:01 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah i mean, he didnt DRIVE IT!
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Stonerguy
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: ZippoZ]
#4833977 - 10/21/05 12:49 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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As long as you have the keys, title, signed paper work saying he would pay 2500 for it I don't see any reason why you would be getting fucked over. If you saw he has been searching for one far and wide maybe he just wanted to make sure you didn't sell it and only had 800 on him. I think you are in the clear. People act weird nowa days.
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TheDudeAbides
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: Stonerguy]
#4834005 - 10/21/05 12:55 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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He just wanted to see if you would post on here about it..
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: TheDudeAbides]
#4834028 - 10/21/05 12:59 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My guess is that the CPD wanted to find out if YOU really are the Zippoz guy who posts on an illegal drug BB and so they figured they lay a pretty wierd mind-fuck on you that you'd HAVE to post about w/ all your drug-addicted friends.
Their plan is working to perfection, obviously....
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goobler
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: TheDudeAbides]
#4834034 - 10/21/05 01:00 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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well you got me there
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ronald321
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: goobler]
#4834178 - 10/21/05 01:20 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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yea i dont think you have much to worry about
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ZippoZ
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: ronald321]
#4835188 - 10/21/05 05:03 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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oh no, what am i to do???? must burn car as evidence....
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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roby000
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF *DELETED* [Re: ZippoZ]
#4835219 - 10/21/05 05:11 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Twister
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Re: weird, weird shit.... am i getting ripped off WTF [Re: roby000]
#4835355 - 10/21/05 05:48 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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You guys are all way too paranoid. You might want to lay off the grass for a while.
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