I'm gonna post a quick experience trying to sell something on kijiji which is similar enough. It's a cautionary tale.
I was selling a camcorder and a bunch of accessories. Got a response! The person responding told me they had a cousin who was doing missionary work in africa and it was perfect for them. They'd forward me the shipping address and buy it for them. Great! The camcorder I have is a Canon HV30 and it's a bit older so it still uses miniDV tapes instead of SD cards. Being the friendly guy I am, I wanted to double check that his cousin would be able to get tapes for the camera. The response didn't answer the question but gave me more info about the transaction. I followed up, again double checking about the tapes. I'm good like that.
Still nothing re. the tapes in the response. This is when alarms started going off. Did some quick googling cause I was curious. Shocker. It's a scam.
I don't remember the specific details, but from what I recall about the scam pparently what would have happened was the money would show up in my paypal, I'd ship the camera off then about a week later I'd find out the money came from a fake credit card or account or something, bye bye cash, bye bye camera, sucks to be me.
Aside from the obvious fact that it was based in Nigeria where a lot of scams seem to come from, part of how you can tell is the person responding wont reference the item directly cause they're reading off a script. At no time did the person say the word 'camera' or directly respond to my questions unless it was about the payment or address.
So yeah. That's my story. You've been warned.
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