CL Too Good To Be True?

[jamesemery728]

Anyone else seen this CL ad in their area? Sounds too good to be true to me.

***Home Depot gift card worth $500 for sale - $140 - (Augusta)

 

[forceyoda]

Yeah, i am thinking it is. The exact same ad was posted in EL Paso.

 

[ATTappman]

Yes, saw it on my local CL. Sounded like a scam.

 

[stock z/28]

It was here also (Lafayette, IN) for a $100.


Seemed a pretty obvious scam.

So I offered $50.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Gotta be a scam. It would be more worth it to buy stuff to resell on Craigslist at a slight loss than sell it for $140.

 

[ItBurnsWhenIPee]

Ive always wondered who in the hell CAN'T spend $500 at Home Depot?

That right there always told me it was a scam.

 

[skipskip]

I must live in a high rent , or low intelligence, district.

It was $330 for $400 here.

Skip

 

[GT89mustang]

Was $140 for 500 here. I have seen some legit ones on there though, but not at that much of a loss.

 

[ImportTuner]

It was $140 for $500 in the SF Bay Area too ..

 

[Bo Heck]

Same ad in all the southeast CL sites I look at. Varying prices, I flag them as spam.

 

[X1 Mike]

My local CL has one for $110, so what is the scam? Are people getting robbed when they show up or are they buying an "empty" gift card. I should offer to meet at the local HD and if it works I'll pay $200.

http://daytona.craigslist.org/tls/1267384298.html




$500.00 Home Depot gift card for sale: Never Expires...No Service Fees - $110 (Daytona Beach)

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Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-07-13, 10:46AM EDT



Home Depot gift card valued at $500.00 for sale. The card does not expire and never charges a service fee. The gift card can be used at all Home Depot stores nationwide. Great deal, email now.


Location: Daytona Beach
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

My local CL has one for $110, so what is the scam? Are people getting robbed when they show up or are they buying an "empty" gift card. I should offer to meet at the local HD and if it works I'll pay $200.

Those would be my guesses. If I was even 'thinking' of buying one, I'd make the guy meet me at Home Depot to verify the card has the value on it the guy claims.

This is one of those, 'if it sounds too good to be true' type of things.

 

[Heathens]

same thing posted here in Columbus yesterday. $500 for $140.

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

My local CL has one for $110, so what is the scam? Are people getting robbed when they show up or are they buying an "empty" gift card. I should offer to meet at the local HD and if it works I'll pay $200.

There are several common scams that I am aware of.
1. You show up and get robbed/carjacked, etc. The place where you show, they have chosen at random
2. You show up/meet at Home depot (place of gift card), go in and verify, come out and pay. They either go in when your shopping (have an accomplice waiting) and use a scan of the barcode (self checkout), or are on a cell phone where a person is placing an online order with the barcode info (draining the card they just sold you). They can then return that merchandise and do the same thing again.
3. (the most common I've been told), you buy/verify the card, but it has been given to them when they returned merchandise. When that merchandise is recognized as stolen, HD voids the card (all balances on it go ****, and your out)
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I am aware of.

 

[evintho]

I'm sure you guys know about the 20% off Home Depot coupons on Ebay for $15-$20? Whenever I'm gonna spend a few hundred at HD, I grab one out of my drawer.

HD 20% off coupons

 

[Elroy]

I want one with a big balance. Who do I talk to?

1,900 Posts. Good Night all

 

[Kevin54]

Same ad in different CL cities all over Ohio. Anywhere from $115 to $140.

 

[fatfillup]

The scammers are playing to our greed. Too often we let the lure of easy money cloud our judgement and reason. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably ain't true.

 

[BigRed390]

Ours is up for a whopping $120! We must have a really desparate seller!

 

[expatriated]

As soon as my $20 million comes in from this e-mail friend of mine in Nigeria, who's dad is a prince, I'm gonna buy a bunch of these cards!

 

[vernon]

yeah there was a few here in nj 500 for 150

 

[Danglerb]

Amazing how the same old con always finds new suckers.

 

[Bo Heck]

I want one with a big balance. Who do I talk to?

1,900 Posts. Good Night all

Again in the first person? You are slackin for sure.

 

[Ttankersley]

Here too $150 for $500