Every year or so, I am faced with a challenge, buy apple care for my laptop or sell it and buy a new one. Since I’d rather not be just another sheep in the herd, I stick it to the man and usually sell my laptop. I really want a Macbook Pro 15″ because watching two netflix movies at the same time on my current macbook is almost impossible without cutting off at least some part of one of the movies. After working at VMware this summer and making some moneys, I think I’m gonna treat myself to a new laptop. As usual, I put it up on craigslist, and like always, about 95% of the responses I get are bullshit scams. It’s usually someone asking me to fedex the laptop to their kid who studies abroad in exchange for a money order or someone asking me if Ill trade my laptop for some other strange item. This is clearly either a sad attempt at a scam or I’v been sending really nasty emails back to a thoughtful mother who just wants to iChat with her son in Europe. If its the later, I apologize Sylvia Auyong. I did get one response recently though that, in my opinion, oneupd all the other scam responses, and here it is:
Dear seller,
I’m interested in buying this items i love the product and my customers are demanding for it so kindly let me know the present conditions. if conditions are okay then i will be adding $50 to the cost which is my best offer.. I will pay through paypal . Send me your paypal email so that i can may make the payment without any further delay. I will add $140 for the USPS EXPRESS MAIL shipping cost to my store in Nigeria.
Pls get back to me asap-Thomas Smith
So many questions come to mind when I read this. First of all, was Thomas Smith the best African name this person could think of? I think I would have believed him more if it was from Shmarak Obama. Also, giving me more money off the bat than the price I asked for is not the smartest of bargaining strategies I’ve heard of, but then again, maybe The Nigerian Apple Store is really really far away. It’s pretty scary to think that if I keep getting these emails, someone must be falling for them
Well that’s enough for today, I gotta go find out how to print a shipping label for Nigeria. Be safe.