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Am I missing something?

rnsykes | Posted in Tools for Home Building on October 20, 2009 06:49am

I think I’ve been around for a while, and this is one that we always pull on the new guys when we send them out to the truck for a tool. Maybe I haven’t been around long enough because I just googled this think to see if it actually exists. Is this guy brazen enough to try to pull a scam like this? Or am I missing something?

http://york.craigslist.org/tls/1395310422.html

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    PeterJ | Oct 20, 2009 06:51pm | #1

    I'll sell you one for half that, he must be nuts!

     

    Everything will be okay in the end.  If it's not okay, it's not the end. 

    1. rnsykes | Oct 20, 2009 06:56pm | #3

      thats what I was thinking, but if I were trying to scam someone for a non existent tool, I'd rather them send me money and I'll ship it to them. This guy wants you to come pick it up.

  2. Scrapr | Oct 20, 2009 06:54pm | #2

    Stu Pedas Tools????

    yeah, he's a jokester

     

  3. cussnu2 | Oct 20, 2009 06:57pm | #4

    made by Stu Peda's tools

    what do you think?

    1. rnsykes | Oct 20, 2009 07:02pm | #5

      yeah, I didn't catch that till you guys posted it here, and i looked at it more carefully. Why would someone take the time to post something so ridiculous?

      1. rich1 | Oct 20, 2009 07:07pm | #6

        Anybody notice the disclaimer at the top?

        Avoid scams by dealing locally.   LOL.

      2. DanH | Oct 20, 2009 07:10pm | #8

        > Why would someone take the time to post something so ridiculous?Uh ... Consider your current audience.
        As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

      3. cussnu2 | Oct 20, 2009 07:29pm | #9

        Write him a note and tell him you need a diesel fitter in a panty hose factory.  Pays $80k a year plus full bene's and 5 weeks vaca. and he seems like a perfect candidate.

         

        You know the guy, he stands at the end of the line and says "deisel fitter"

        1. mike4244 | Oct 21, 2009 05:42am | #15

          When I first got off the boat with my brother we looked for work. After two weeks of looking I finally get a job in a ladies underwear factory. The boss tells me $5.00 per hour and I start in two weeks. My brother applies later on in the day and gets hired at $20.00 per hour and starts the next day. I go back and ask the boss "what gives,you hired me at $5.00 and I start in two weeks,you hire my brother and he starts tomorrow at $20.00 per hour.

          The boss says to me, your brother has a very important job, he's a diesel fitter. I asked him if he knew what a diesel fitter did. He said no,but it sounds important.

          I told him back in the old country I did the last thing on the assembly line,sewed the crotches in the ladies drawers. My b rother was the inspector,he checked them out and hollered "deese ill fitter ,deese ill fitter!

          My camel joke is even better, Mike

      4. DianeA | Oct 20, 2009 07:51pm | #10

        >> Why would someone take the time to post something so ridiculous?Spend some time reading the "Best of Craigslist" section and you'll have your answer...

  4. DanH | Oct 20, 2009 07:09pm | #7

    Call him and ask him if he has a left-handed smoke shifter.

    As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
  5. YesMaam27577 | Oct 20, 2009 10:27pm | #11

    That guy must be trolling for maroons.

    As for me, I'll never fall for anything like that again!

    I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone,
    And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone;
    I can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone,
    So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here. (Phil Ochs)

  6. 6bag | Oct 20, 2009 11:46pm | #12

    when i was much younger i worked in a auto parts store (they had a few stores in the area).  when it got slow and we were bored, we would call the other stores and ask if they had parts that didn't exist.

    drum brakes for a 1983 corvette

    plug wires for a 6.9 diesel

    upper radiator hose for a vw bug

    my favorite was the squeegee sharpener

    think about it.

  7. mike4244 | Oct 21, 2009 05:30am | #13

    The Stupeda Strectcher is my favorite tool. I just rocked a 200 board house using only 100 sheets. Saved almost $1000.00 in material alone. Hopefully the mudstretcher will be out before I start finishing. $250.00 is a bargain. The new in the box version is $350.00

    mike

    1. DanH | Oct 21, 2009 05:33am | #14

      I got a stretcher stretcher. Saved over $100 on the stretcher.
      As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz

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