Frauds

I saw a picture once of an super MVDTA. It sold for $29000

I have also seen the nigerian scam, where someone emails you saying for example he has 30 million here and will write you a 30million check but you have to send 25million to this place..... and you keep the change..... and people fall for that.

Found this today while searching the internet. Note the date of the ad and the "This is for real" part:

For Sale: (4/30/98) Brand new Ferguson 35, 1956 (First year), gray & green in color (Only year of that color, zero). 7 tenths of an hour, has factory shipping tag still attached to tractor. All paperwork included. Stored inside heated building since new. This is for real, $25,000.00. Lloyd Wenger, 831 Hilltop Road, Myerstown PA 17067. Phone (717) 866-7147 eves, Fax (717) 866-4300 or E-Mail me at: lwenger@prolog.net

It is as-advertised. Only a few minor scuffs on the tin and some small bits of surface rust on all 4 wheels. It is complete with drawbar and stays, paperwork and also IIRC, a laminated copy of an old newspaper article concerning the tractor's history.

I chuckled last Sat. at a small tractor show with probably about 40 to 50 tractors. Some of the tractors were in fairly good original condition, most were in restored condition. A few were in near perfect restored condition, including one beautifully-done 450.

While a few of them had For Sale signs, it struck me that more had NOT FOR SALE signs on 'em.

Reminded me of the time I complimented a guy at the old Granger's Picnic tractor show, about how his restored M Farmall hadn't looked that good since it left the factory. He got a tad upset, said it hadn't looked that good WHEN it had left the factory. ;o)