Well I got scammed for the first time in my life. I try to be as vigilant as possible but been burned. I was schooled too. I placed an ad in various woodworking forums including this one looking for a Byrnes mini thickness drum sander. Someone on another forum PMed me that they know a person who has "them." This should have been my first clue. No one has more than one. My second mistake was not to check this persons on line record on that forum. He was new and just joined 2 weeks ago. I was too anxious because these are hard to come by used. Anyway I got in touch with the person and he showed me a photo of one that was used from the sawdust all over it. OK we set on a price and he said it included shipping. Great. My third clue and this was a hair on the neck tingle thing, he answered some questions and with one word all the time. No details. But still proceding on and he requests for me to send money through PayPal through Family and Friends so he does not have to pay fee. I have done this in the past and figured I am protected by PayPal so I agreed. He said as soon as deal pending clears he will send. Well 4 then 5 days go by and I keep emailing him to send me shipping number and carrier and no reply. Well fast forward 9 days and he finally answers my email and says FedX wants $100 for shipping. Now I knew I was had right there and told him no way and that I want a refund. He emails back and says he will take $50 and send tomorrow. I again refused and demanded my money back and threatened him to tell PayPal. Well I did call PayPal and they tell me that I sent money through F&F there is no recourse for them to take and I was out the money. Now this was the lesson I learned because I never knew that. From now on I will never ever do F&F unless my own family. I know where they live. This is just a warning for anyone that deals with PP and doing any deals. Be careful. I can not even fight this through my credit card because it was not a card that was used.
It is just ashame how people do things like this. Be careful when buying on line weather through this site or any site.
Just to clear something, this person was operating under the guise of PM messages in the classified section. Again did not happen on this site but my message is for any site you go to. This guy had multiple addresses and was from Nigeria as I found out.