A Sony Laptop was advertised for sale on Craig's List, Ann Arbor, MI, for $400. Sent email to seller. She Susan gibson replied:
Hello
I still have the laptop. I want $400 for it. The laptop was set up for the US, it is 3 months old and it comes with 9 months of warranty.
I have attached some pics with the laptop to this e-mail. I am now in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Since I can't meet you and make the exchange, I would like to use a service that will help us with that:
Http://www.tnt.com/tnt. Express. Wolverhampton. Depot. Overseas. Transactions/details.html
TNT is a worldwide delivery company (like Fedex, DHL or UPS). You can see from their procedure that you will be able to check the laptop before I receive the payment. If you are in a hurry, I will use 2 day delivery (shipping is on me). Let me know what you think.
Best,
Susan
The link did not provide the TNT process so I emailed her again requesting a corrected link... She replied:
From: Susan gibson [mailto: gibson. [email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13 4:52 PM
To: Tom Pate
Subject: RE: the 17' sony vaio vgn ar290g from craigslist $400
Hi Tom
You're welcome.
The laptop came with MS Windows Media Center a Windows Vista Home Premium express upgrade. I only used Vista on it.
The laptop comes with a standard battery.
I am sorry, I must have sent you a wrong link. Here is the right link:
Http://www.shiptnt.com/tnt. Express. Wolverhampton. Depot. Overseas. Transactions/
Please read their procedure and get back to me.
Best,
Susan
The link shows a professional-looking website with instructions for the process wherein I would be contacted by TNT to send $400 to TNT to be held by TNT until I receive the PC from TNT and inspect it, and if I am satisfied, notify TNT to release the funds to the seller... If I am not satisfied, I receive a full refund of the money "no questons asked".
Fortunately, I googled "TNT Third Party Delivery Service" and discovered the scam and previous writeup at the usacomplaints.com website.
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