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johndeeregene

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had it happen twice on a couple of items i had for sale.
phone rings says it is a AT&t operator with a relay call. which is what a deaf person could use, ask about item, cond, lowest price, an ask what type of payment, an would like to have a shipping agent to arrange payment of cerified check. when i told them to tell them it has to be postal money order, cash, any other payment, item would be held until payment is cleared, if same day pickup cash only. operator told me both times person hung up.
at times i have sold item before with check but i usually ask what the name of the bank is before hand, not the number i will get that myself. i have been took this way yet.
just thought you all should know
gene
 
i have not accepted any checks for 10 years.
I demand a written contract and money order mailed to my address.
It is impossible to collect a bad check.
 
Unless you personally know the person calling you, you should automatically assume that any relay call is a scammer. It used to be that you needed TTY equipment for a relay call, but a few years ago they opened it up to internet access, and the scammers figured out quick that it is a great way to hide their identities and horrific accents. Unfortunately, relay operators are required to only repeat what they are told and are not allowed to tip someone off when they they think the "deaf" person is actually a scammer.
 
Scammers Using those TTY and other deaf services makes the deaf people look bad. I'm hard of hearing and I have to use this service.

Now I wonder if people will hang up on me!
 
know just what you are talking about, I have 2-2Ns listed and this just happened yesterday to me, Just exactly as you explained. The scarry thing is he was really knowlegable about tractors. S.T.
 
All that being said...what are you gonna do when they bring you a PO Money order and it is fake? Just a question. I am only gonna take cash...it could be fake too...Gene
 
I received US Postal Money Orders for a tractor I sold. Took them to the bank & they were ready to cash the with no problem. I asked them to verify that they were good before I cashed them. The Bank Manager made a phone call, zxzxzxzxzxzx They had been cash a year before & had been modified. Had I cashed them, I would have been charged with defrauding the bank to the tune of $3,600.oo Bucks. I only accept cash now, & hope it's not phony.
 
Tractor collectors should be a bunch of good guys, like farm kids. a few are not. They take advantage of your good nature.
 
Regarding phony currency- son is an engineer for the state highway dept., they got a new color copier that was really zooty- so they decided to see how it did copying a 20 dollar bill (we have new bills with colors, to foil counterfeiters)- instead of copying the bill, it just flashed a message "unauthorized copy- denied." The bills have a metallic strip in them, guess it tells the copier not to copy. Then everybody was wondering when ATF would come a' callin'. . .
 
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