Later when I was checking my e-mails, I not only found my snipping tool thingie, but several weird e-mails. There were three failed delivery notices for when I tried to unsubscribe to Sen. Ben Nelson's updates:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
senator@bennelson.senate.gov(Never was successful unsubscribing, finally stopped receiving updates when he left the Senate.)
And two that were for failed delivery for craigslist. One for the four-wheeler I bought 2½ years ago and the other for the Boston Whaler I bought last summer. (As you may gather, I've bought a number of things via craigslist and have also used craigslist to sell things. Some items I've posted sold, some didn't.)
Also a reply to an e-mail where I disputed a medical bill for a cat scan from several years ago.
Have a similar ringtone on my cellphone to let me know when I receive a text.
I have had pretty good luck with e-bay.
ReplyDeletethe Ol'Buzzard
The Old Lady tried selling some vintage dresses on e-bay and someone tried scamming her. Said she sent a money order and didn't get the dress. Finally had to do arbitration thru e-bay and when The Old Lady asked what address she sent the money order to, she couldn't answer because The Old Lady only had an e-mail address in the posting, no mailing address. After that we figured the hell with e-bay. There are also scammers on craigslist, but easy to avoid by doing the final deal in person.
ReplyDeleteA Craigslist story: A local advertised his iPhone on Craigslist. He got a response and arranged to have the guy come by his house to look at it. The guy showed up...pulled a gun...took the iPhone...plus several other electronics. He is still at large.
ReplyDeleteI have sold on Craigslist, but I always make the transfer in a public place.