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    Beware of Craigslist scams

    Hi BBC! New member here and looking to buy my first boat. While looking around on Craigslist I've already found an active scam going on that I'd thought I would share with the community. There were a couple of recently listed Skeeter boats that "were too good to be true". https://myrtlebeach.craigslist.org/b...724966957.html was actually this boat on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-SKEETER-ZX-200-YAMAHA-SHO-200-DUAL-AXLE-TRAILER-NEW-CONDITION/173587047592?hash=item286a9824a8:g:24gAAOSwCshbGHr O:rk:10:pf:0&vxp=mtr. A $40k boat for $6800. I actually called and spoke to this seller on eBay and let him know his boat posting was being used in a scam. He was very interested and had this happen to him before.

    Here's another one - https://tampa.craigslist.org/hdo/boa...725799745.html. https://www.ebay.com/itm/2010-Skeete...d/123421533624

    The scam is the 'seller' poses usually as a divorced woman or has some emergency that they have to pay for - and usually involves an escrow / shipping company which will handle all the details. I checked out the site that the person was referring to and initially it looks legit. I did a search for scams and found this interesting post from the BBB. https://www.bbb.org/en/us/article/news-releases/17905-vehicle-shippers-springing-up-on-internet-may-be-scams-bbb-warns

    Just thought this might be helpful to the forum.

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    When I was looking at boats I saw a lot of boats priced way too low and figured they were a scam, just wan't sure how it worked. I would see the same boat with different specs sometimes posted in multiple cities. Was very annoying. Interesting to see how they do it, reminds me of an old scam of people renting house in areas they didn't live.

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    Why can't they use their powers for good! Lol

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