Posted by Bryce Frazier on March 13, 2017 at 12:25:19 from (97.73.64.146):
This is off topic, but a warning to us all!
A neighbor lady (60's?) is cleaning up a small property that she leases (leases the land, but owns what is on the land). She no longer wants the lease, and the owner isn't going to lease it any more, so she is just clearing it all off. There is a big shed, 5th wheel camper, and a small mobile home. She asked me to help her in getting rid of stuff, in return I go the shed! (pictures are of me dragging the thing home!! )
Anyways, fast forward a week or two, she tells me that she had a guy call her wanting to buy the 5th wheel camper trailer (30 foot in decent condition). She said that this guy claims to be a friend of her ex husband, however they have never met. He out of the blue offers her $2500 for the camper (which I think is too much) Cash, and he said he will pick it up as soon as he can. She called it a deal, and said they would talk later in the week.
This is when it starts to get weird.
She calls him a few days later, and he tells her to sign the title, and send it to a PO box in our town, and that once he got the title put into his name, he would then go out and put the wheels on the trailer, take it off the blocks, and drag it back to his place. He said that after he had it at his house, and in his name, he would meet her somewhere and "get her paid up". She agrees.
She starts telling me this story the next day, just so that I know some guy by the name of Darold is picking up the trailer! I hear little red flags everywhere!! I was SHOCKED that he expected to be able to do all of that, before any cash changed hands?? I told her absoultly not, and that I would have the signed title, and meet him at the trailer when he wanted to pick it up, and that he would hand me the cash before the wheels went on it, period. I told her my concerns, and that I honestly thought he would probably drag the thing home, and never talk to her again, and she would never get paid.
She tried to call him that day to tell him the changes in the deal, but he didn't answer the phone, so she left a message. 2 days later she called again, phone number was no good. He called her a few days after that and she told him the situation, and he said that "Because you clearly don't trust me, I am no longer interested in buying it from you. Either we do it my way, or not at all." and she just hung up on him.
She was shocked, I was just baffeled. To me it was clearly a scam waiting to happen, and had I not said something, I believe he would have done nothing short of steal that trailer from her.
To camp it all off, she asked her ex this morning about this Darold guy, he doesn't know of one. . . .
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