Strange private messages

[tbm3fan]

How many of you get private messages from whoever (always brand new members no posts) saying they are interested in buying that car or a part and you have no clue as to who they are and why? Just got another one in the last day about buy the car and ship to PA.

 

[300rag]

I have had the odd one, usually looking for something that was listed 4 or 5 years ago, or one of my not mine threads.

 

[67newport]

i get them. sometimes the ads 2,3,4 years old and always from a new member. sometime i just ignore them sometimes i answer back 'not mine' as stated in the add.

 

[commando1]

I've gotten a few PM's from unknowns asking me if a car, I never had, was still available.

 

[saforwardlook]

Glad you bought this up since I am getting them too - I am assuming it is some kind of software glitch but maybe moderator can clarify.

 

[Boydsdodge]

My PMs might be legit, but each of them only have been members for a short while and a couple of posts. All are asking if and when I was selling my Imperial.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Clueless random new members that get overexcited while using their phone to access the Internet.
Most likely a n00b at using the 'net my bet. Graduates of FaceBook to forums.
I get them and surprising on something in a for sale post many years old. I have fun with them, some respond with a sorry, some don't.


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[Joeychgo]

I am assuming it is some kind of software glitch but maybe moderator can clarify.

Not a software glitch

Clueless random new members that get overexcited while using their phone to access the Internet.
Most likely a n00b at using the 'net my bet. Graduates of FaceBook to forums.

A little harsh but this is most likely the likely explanation

 

[tbm3fan]

Here is the reply from the moron who emailed me about a car for sale which is impossible.

"Then update your ******* page"

From: fuselagefever

 

[Joeychgo]

Here is the reply from the moron who emailed me about a car for sale which is impossible.

"Then update your ******* page"

From: fuselagefever

My guess is - he saw an ad for a car you posted that was a 'not mine' that you put in the wrong forum. I just moved several of them to the correct forum.

That said, it was no cause for him to be an ***.

 

[tbm3fan]

My guess is - he saw an ad for a car you posted that was a 'not mine' that you put in the wrong forum. I just moved several of them to the correct forum.

That said, it was no cause for him to be an ***.

If my memory is correct I haven't posted a Craigslist car for sale this entire year even though I know the rules for getting it right.

The ones you moved are ancient and quite possibly before things organized into members and not mine.

 

[commando1]

A little harsh but this is most likely the likely explanation

Not harsh...

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Ah it's people with phones and they mash something that the didn't intend to mash, kind of like a miss click, now the new miss-mash. Happens to me all the time since I don't have needle point fingers but big fat old dead working man fingers. Now the thumb type'rs that's a skill I will never master in my lifetime.


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[commando1]

Now the thumb type'rs that's a skill I will never master in my lifetime.

They are the ones you can't read their texts in the first place. No punctuation, spelling shortcuts I don't understand and a goulash bash of upper and lower case letters used indiscriminately.