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Subject:Re: is this a scam!?
From:Mike Collum
Date:Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:17:27 -0500

It looks like you may have done well to ask.  Here is what I got when I
clicked on the link:

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Mike

craig cowan wrote:
> I am buying a jetta off the craigslist and wondering if this is a scam
> method. I know there was some discussion earlier on buying a winter
> car, and a discussion a while back about being scammed on ebay. The
> car is listed here http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/car/267755416.html
> and looks to be a great deal. I have talked with the seller, and hes
> going through an escrow company that he has a contract with (the
> reason he cant just sell it to me face to face and save costs) through
> www.internationalvehicletrade.com. He says i sign up with them, he
> pays to deliver the car, i get 6 days to inspect it, if i like it he
> flys down (from canada) and finalizes all the paperwork. All costs are
> incured on him.
>
> Is this a real method of buying cars, or am i gettings swindeled?
>
> -Craig
> '85GL sunroff
> (Shopping for a winter car)
>