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Old 05-02-11, 13:59
Grant Bowker Grant Bowker is offline
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Default Carrier for sale in Alberta on Kijiji

http://bc.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-...AdIdZ248469481
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"Mostly complete...missing some of the armour approx. 1/3 has been removed...should run..with a litte elbow grease..Awsome project.....These are getting Hard to find!! Call 780-669-0492....Second world war tracked armoured vehicle....For sale Now!! The One pictured is not the one I am selling...it is the same type though. Mine needs work to bring it to the same condition as the one in the picture!! Buy this Canadian Army Brengun Carrier Now!!"
The photo is of a nice looking & complete carrier - gives no indication of the condition of the vehicle being sold.
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Old 05-02-11, 14:59
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If you wanted to be a real $hit, tell fleabay's management that he is misrepresenting his listing. Picture cannot match the description, unless the 1/3 missing armour is the entire right side.
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Old 05-02-11, 15:16
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I don't see it as fraud since they clearly say "The One pictured is not the one I am selling", but the photo isn't very useful, except to someone who doesn't know what a carrier should look like.
You know the phrase.......Only believe x% of what you see and 0.5x% of what you read and 0.25x% of what you are told........less if it's on the internet (and then it's either worthless or 100% true even if it should be an obvious BS call).
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Old 05-02-11, 15:42
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Bob Barker used to deal like this all the time. "Do you want whats behind the curtain?"

Unbelievable that someone would try and sell something at $12,000 and not even be able to supply a photo.
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Old 05-02-11, 19:18
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I,m with Rob on this one. If you are too lazy to furnish some pics for a $12G sale I would be leary in dealing with someone like this....

I was speaking with a fellow today as a matter of fact regarding buying and selling on the Internet. I told him rule#1 IS TO NEVER, EVER MISREPRESENT ANYTHING that you put up for sale.
Whether buying or selling, buyer beware is key, pics, questions, phone calls etc are cheap in the longrun.

This kinda reminds me of a certain Bren gun deact that was sold here recently, something about pics representing an item that wasn't what was being sold.....
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Old 05-02-11, 23:55
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I don't disagree with any of you that it would be much better if there were an accurate photo of what is being sold. Even no photo would be better to my senses than a photo of what the item could be turned into with some/copius work.
All I'm saying is that in this case they want to sell something, describe it (hopefully accurately) and do say that the photo is not the item being sold. It can be misleading if the buyer doesn't read carefully, but is not fraud because it is stated the two items are not one. I wouldn't buy based only on their description, particularly with the misleading potential of the photo, but that's my choice to make.
I originally posted the link so that if anyone was interested on the terms given they could investigate further to find out if the carrier met their needs/interests.
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Old 06-02-11, 00:50
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No Prob Grant!

It is great for Mlu's members to pass along info like these for sale ads.

It just drives me crazy when guys post ads using other peoples pictures or something totally apart from what they are selling...
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