Remembering an old scam pulled on a friend of mine.

This was back twenty years ago when the two cylinder craze was in high gear. My friend wanted a JD "G". They had gone from 5-6 hundred dollars to 2-3 thousand in just a few years. You have to remember that this was before the Internet. He placed an ad in a major farm publication looking for one. He got a reply from West Virginia saying they had a fresh painted one for $900. They conversed for a about a month by mail. HE finally send them a cashiers check for the $900 plus an additional $400 dollars they agreed to deliver the tractor to him for. About this time I became aware of the "deal". He was over bragging about how he had found a JD "G" for half what I was asking for a good one I had.

He got his tractor a few days later. If I had not been good friends with the mail carrier he would have been able to hide his "good" deal. What he got in the MAIL was a JD "G" toy tractor that was freshly painted with a spray can over the mud and grim.

HE even drove to West Virginia to look for HIS tractor. He had been writing to a post office box in a really small town. The local Post Master laughed at him. He tried to get the Post office involved. They told him he was out of luck as he had received what he had been sold: A JD "G" with fresh paint. Neither one of the two had ever stated that it was for a full size tractor. A local lawyer there told him he was out of luck trying to sue.

He has the honor of having the highest priced toy JD "G" tractor I know of.

This is like these guys that are sending for parts and stuff from England and other far away places. If your as naive as this you kind of deserve the skinning you are going to get.

Just about any part you want is available here in the US. Never pay for anything without seeing it first. I get many old parts here COD. If they are not what I think they should be I refuse delivery.

Funny and sad at the same time.
An expensive lesson to learn.

My wives sister and her husband fell for one of those "come listen to our sales pitch on a time share and have the chance to win "X". They actually paid $40 to listen to a sales pitch, they are sooooo stupid that they fell for it twice by 2 different scammers. I have no sympathy for idiots.

Nobody deserves to be treated like that but if it's true, it must have been a really inexperienced lawyer he talked to. Gross misrepresentation comes to mind along with fraud and other charges.

This is a true story. The reason the lawyer said he did not have a chance is that he did not even have a "real" address for those that got him. He had gotten the cashiers check on a national bank. The receiver cashed the check a hundred miles away from where he had been mailing the letters. Second the PO box he had used had been turned back into the the Post office. HE had no idea who had scammed him. Also have you ever gone into a small town as an outsider and been able to get any information on a local?? Not going to happen in the WV mountain country.

What made me remember this is the early posting that was about a scam on an injection pump out of England. The poster had not lost any money but it seemed he had sent the money and was lucky enough to wake up and stop it before it had been cashed in.

My point being is that why are people so naive or gullible to fall for these type of things???

There is no truer saying than "You can't cheat an honest man."

Folks that get sucked in by this sort of thing are trying to pull a fast one, get something for nothing and then b!tch when it bites them on the butt.

No sympathy here.

And every one makes fun of us West Virginians

If they went to a Time Share sale, and it only cost them $80.00 they should be in Church praising God. You can t give a Time Share away, and you can t sell it either.

It's hard to believe anyone would buy a tractor without going to see it, start it, and driving it.