A 23 year old father of two killed, and his 73 year old grandfather clinging to life over $4k. I read stories like this and I'm torn apart. I mean seriously, look at the two low life's. It's honestly infuriating.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nor...ng-granddad-grandson

I guess the least I can do is donate to the Go fund me and hope that justice is served, I doubt it, but I guess I can still hope.

The sad story aside, you've got to be careful out there. Those SOB's!

Tragic.

With FB marketplace. You have the ability to screen buyers/sellers based upon their FB profile. If they look legit, it will likely be OK.

I took $5K in cash to help my daughter buy her first car. It was an estate sell but using a family members FB account. All worked out fine.

Just last week I sold a car part to a guy 3 hours away. Used Facetime to inspect the part and his local family member picked it up. All went well.

Too bad for this young man and grandfather that the scum were looking to simply rob them.

Buyer beware.

That's a truly sad situation.

Never used Craigslist and almost certainly never will, but, if I did and really, really wanted something like this deal, I'd damn sure make sure the deal went down in a police station parking lot.

Carrying thousands in cash to the hood? Just a sad, sad mistake.

In the parking lot outside of our local police station there are two parking spots deemed "Safe Exchange". They are within 30 feet of the door to the station. No guarantees but reasonably safe. When I sold my Tacoma on Auto Trader, that's where I met the buyer.

the stereotype confirmed

horrible crime for the victims and family

be careful out there folks -- the animals are among us

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Too bad they didn't profile these two savages and decide against a parking lot rendezvous. Very sad result.

That was a baited hook. Too good to be true. I recently bought a vehicle with cash. It was considerably more than 4000.00 Went with one of my boys. We were both armed. While one of us checked the vehicle out, the other stayed back and watched. when the vehicle checked out I paid for it after the title was produced and signed. Jr DF remained watching. We left together with the new vehicle in the lead.

I do a little of most, Armslist, Craigslist, FB marketplace, whatever, buyer or seller. One needs to evaluate every meet, who, where, when, reason & the deal.

Knowing one side is showing up with thousands in cash is a time to step things up. A meet for a $50 sleeping bag, less of a concern.

Besides the above incident, people have given fake money, done a carjacking of sorts during a test drive & similar.

May meet a guy later today, for starters it’s more farm country than the hood.

Maybe I’ll take my barky Shepherd too, she likes to vet strangers.

Bring a gun, bring a friend with a gun.

Trust no one.

Yep. Don't let a "great deal" blind your common sense.

I was shopping for a bike and found one for a great price. I contacted the seller and we agreed to meet that evening. He sent me the address, but before leaving, I googled it. Turns out the address was a junkyard.

I told him I'd changed my mind and wouldn't be coming. He might have been legit, but I wasn't going to meet anyone at a junkyard after dark, no matter how good a deal it was.

Tamika Shatavia! Friggin' Srabble names!
Went to a small town northeast of here to look at a female boxer for a companion to our boy Jack. Craigslist add. Went to the guys trailer. wife stayed in the car with her Sig in her hand and I had my H&K on my hip in plain sight. no problems but can'be too careful.

I'm not buying anything where I need armed backup. There's nothing I want or could save enough money to make me knowingly take the risk.

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Originally posted by BOATTRASH1:
Tamika Shatavia! Friggin' Srabble names!
Went to a small town northeast of here to look at a female boxer for a companion to our boy Jack. Craigslist add. Went to the guys trailer. wife stayed in the car with her Sig in her hand and I had my H&K on my hip in plain sight. no problems but can'be too careful.

Scrabble names. Ha! Some of my rental equipment had not been returned, so I requested a local LE to go with me to La'Quonda's house to retrieve it. He knew the way, said that she was a frequent flyer.

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Question about the H&K on your hip in plain sight: This was here in Florida?

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
That was a baited hook. Too good to be true. I recently bought a vehicle with cash. It was considerably more than 4000.00 Went with one of my boys. We were both armed. While one of us checked the vehicle out, the other stayed back and watched. when the vehicle checked out I paid for it after the title was produced and signed. Jr DF remained watching. We left together with the new vehicle in the lead.

Exact same way I buy anything from an online want add. Son goes and parks just a ways away. We've never had any problems but it never hurts to be careful.

Life's dangerous. I buy stuff on CL all the time. Just 2 night ago I bought a set of youth snowboard bindings for my 10 YO. 2 weeks ago I bought an out of produciton SCUBA regulator. Last January I bought an AMSEC 6030 safe for $800. Plus countless other transactions.

I rarely buy new when used in excellent condition works just as well for a fraction of the price.

I feel for the family though.

He has a cross tattoo on his forehead. Other than Christ dying for his sins too, I cannot think of anything else positive to add here... wait, there is one thing, North Carolina does have the death penalty.

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Originally posted by BOATTRASH1:
Tamika Shatavia! Friggin' Srabble names!

I once worked in an office with a Black woman in 1990. She was preganat when I was hired, and after a couple of months, she took her maternity leave. When she returned, I asked her what she named her new daughter. The name was a "scrabble name."

But, here's the thing: Up until then, I was under the impression that these weird sounding names were actual names from an African dialect. So, I asked her what the name meant. She got a puzzled look on her face and asked me, "What you mean 'what it mean'?" So, I confessed to her what I had believed about the weird sounding names that Black people are naming their children nowadays. (I worded my response a bit more politically correct, of course.) She replied, "Oh no - we was just throwin' out syllables."

In the late 1980s, I listed a car for sale in a local paper. It was a mint Ford Falcon from the late 1960s. A young Black guy came and looked at it. He communicated that he would think about it and left. Maybe it was sixth sense, but I decided to park the car one block away in my friend's garage.

The next morning - at 3:40 AM - the phone rang. I struggled to mumble, "hello" when I picked up the phone, and a very frustrated and angry voice demanded, "Way da Falcon at?!"

I rented a car to drive to NC from NoVA to buy a bike. Seller invited me to stay at his house, picked me up where I dropped off the rental car. We went out riding in the mountains and his wife cooked us a killer dinner and breakfast. While doing paperwork, he asked if I'd be interested in his Les Baer 10mm. That was a great transaction.

I sold my last Porsche to a guy in LA and drove it out to him. He had wired me $22k and handed me another $22k in wads of cash when I got there. I promptly went to the closest branch of my credit union to deposit it. All good.

I don't like buying anything off Craigslist or any other type of media.

Because of this when I agree to buy anything from a stranger I pick the meeting spot and time of the meet. If the seller starts to get antsy I quickly say not interested and hang up.

I always go armed and depending on the amount of the purchase I have an armed friend or two riding "shotgun"