Scams in Classifieds

while I didn't vote on the poll, Craigslist (CL) is a place where people will post crazy prices like E-bay does and if it sells then they make a ton of money on a piece of [censored]. There is a fool born everyday. I've seen CL old bikes classified as the best racing bike out of Europe raced on during TDF's back in the 80's, priced at $1,100 and they were sacrificing the $2,500 it was worth, and it was a junky low end bike worth $25! Or the ad for a fast ultralight racing bike used by pros when they race, asking $600, and it was a cheap mixte worth $75!! Or a very rare racing bike built by the best Italian bicycle designer priced at $1800, and it was a very low end BSA bike built in America. You see this stuff all the time. But like anyone buying a vintage anything, bikes or whatever, you had better know what your buying. There was a guy on Pawn Shop series that bought a vintage ball and cap single shot pistol for $1200, but now he needed the money so he thought he would sell it, and it turned out to be a modern forgery worth maybe $40...the guy was very [censored], but it was his fault because he didn't know his guns and got screwed for his lack of knowledge. This stuff goes on a lot, and it started years ago with fake antiques and fake jewelry, now it's expanded to just about every market you can think of.

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the word of the day is "feckless": (adj, of a person) 1. lacking in efficiency or vitality 2. unthinking and irresponsible

Thanks ....I like it. Damn, these blogs just may be a descent learning place after all!

Here's one I saw on another blog :

Lumpenproletariat Marx refers to the lumpenproletariat as the "refuse of all classes", including "swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel-keepers, rag-and-bone merchants, beggars, and other flotsam of society".