In a message dated 2/8/2006 9:26:42 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I asked the seller if I could pay and pick up the machine in person since I live in Washington (I don't really). His response had nothing to do with my question, in Nigerian English. "Good day, My name is Martin Trance and i have this EDISON IDELIA D2 CYLINDER PHONOGRAPH for sale.The price as you probably know is 1899 usd. As soon as you ll decide to buy the PHONOGRAPH i ll need your address to ship this. You need to have the cash ready,i cant wait for a loan cause may take several days. The money will be transfered under my name as soon as you ll check the shipping.Let me know soon. Thats all i have in mind for now but please e mail me so we can talk more. Have a nice day" Heh. Any thoughts on a good response to keep him going? Mike I wrote the guy too. I got an exactly identical response. He answers no questions. But that's what I expected. I know it's fruitless to bother with this...but this type of fraud really bothers me. I let Jean-Paul know about it and he agreed that this was his machine. I tried to bait him by asking the address to which the money can be sent---but I expect no answer now. The offering has now been withdrawn by eBay. If I hear anything else, I'll post the response. I know this was an obvious fraud...but I still appreciate the group response. Thanks. ---Art Heller
