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$1000.00 NEW Garmin 496

Here's the Craig's List link:

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ele/1326478107.html

Thanks - I sent him/her an e-mail to find out more about it...good find Bengie! If true, this is the deal of the year! MM

My guess is that it is a scam. When I was looking for my 496, I contacted all kinds of people on Craigslist, and I never found one legitimate deal.

Thanks John, I am very skeptical, but will look into it. I have been on E-Bay for years and am very careful about these types of deals. Thanks. MM

My bets on stolen, if there is an actual 496 for sale.

We had someone raid my home airport a year ago or so who made off with a couple of Bose headsets, we ended up finding them because they put them on Craig's list.

If its legit, that sure is a heckuva deal though!

Jacob

FYI, the seller never called or got back in touch with me....must have been either a great deal that went fast, or false. I'll never know, but thanks for all the warnings, folks! I'll probably buy one from Tropic Aero when the time is right. MM

He's probably out of the country....


say, maybe.....Nigeria!

Gotta great deal on an O-200.




Cheap.

Well, the $1000 Garmin 496 deal is a scam....

I wanted to believe, mainly because I had previous experience of being on the receiving end of a great deal. Back in the late 80s when the HP LaserJet II was THE printer to have, none could be found for less than their list price of $2,795.

But then my boss told me of a friend who won a LaserJet II in a raffle-contest. He didn't want or need it, so he offered it for $1,000.

I snapped it up and was very happy. That printer served me well for two decades.

So when this Garmin ad came along, it matched the true story I experienced.

Alas, it's a fake - starting with the unusual grammar of his e-mails, that fact that weeks later this "great deal" is still available, his insistence that he'll provide an invoice through eBay so "the transaction is insured and secured", his inability to be available in Philadelphia for me to pick it up in person, and finally an article from eBay about Garmin GPS scams [reviews.ebay.com]. Luckily it didn't cost me $1,000 to find this out!

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PS - When I bought the laser printer 20 years ago I don't think the seller realized that he'd have to pay tax on 'income' of $2,795, the list price of the printer he'd won. I figured out later that, after taxes, he barely came out ahead on the $1,000 sale.

PPS - One female friend suggested that instead of spending $1,000 on a laser printer I should instead take my girlfriend at the time on a vacation. The friend was a writer and verbally painted this idyllic scene of my girlfriend and me lounging on a tropical beach.

I then talked to a male co-worker. He cut me short by saying "Don't do that! That printer will be there long after the girl is gone!"

I listened to the guy - and he was right.

Those old HP LaserJets were bulletproof. When I worked in the public schools, it was very common to see them with 1,000,000 pages printed, and still going strong with no problems!