>Hello fellow hams.
>I recently posted my Ameritron ALS 600 solid state amp for sale on several
>of the amateur radio classified sites.....I had the amp listed for $800.00
>plus shipping.....I received the email below today offering me $1000.00 and
>no shipping cost because the buyer would arrange for pickup....I would not
>have thought much about this except I remembered another similar offer I had
>received when I listed my Emtron DX-2 SP amp for sale several months
>back.....That time I was also offered a good deal more in payment than I had
>the amp listed for, and they also would have their shipper come buy and pick
>up the amp.....in that case the procurement company said they were in some
>African country.....in this latest case the procurement company is in the
>UK.
>
>My question is this....Have any of the rest of you ever been contacted by
>one of the procurement companies when you had listed items for sale on any
>of the ham classifieds? If so were they legit? My concern is that these
>companies are operating some kind of a scam operation.
*** Free advice: Go to your bank and get a counterfeit-bill testing pen
and ask for the bank's advice on spotting bogus bills. Require payment
in U.S. Dollars. Test the money.
>....I may be entirely
>wrong, but I just have that old feeling in my gut that something is wrong
>here....why would these people offer MORE for the item than it's listed
>price?.....Maybe I am just paranoid....I dont know....what do you think?
>
>Thanks for your time and 73
>
>Tom.....W4TH
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