I thought this was amusing/interesting: Today's Orange County California offerings seem to be dominated by somebody from Coto de Caza, an upscale community in South Orange County. I would sort of like to know the story behind this, but, frankly, I suspect money laundering.
Me too. Or so I thought. I have had luck selling any item I put up there in pretty quick time, but watch out for scams from buyers. I had someone this week come up with a story that they were out of the country on business, and that they wanted to buy an item so they were going to have their administrative assistant mail me a check. They quickly informed me that the bank check was sent out for the wrong amount, and they were nervous about it, and wanted me to send back the balance. When I recieved the check, it looked legit, and from an official institution, but I smelled something fishy. I had the check looked at at my bank. Turns out it was a scam, and I would have been on the hook for the bounced check, and charged a fee, and possibly had my account flagged and shut down. Meanwhile I would have been out any money I sent the person. (I dont do alot of banking business or this kind of stuff, I just assumed that any bank coming from an instiution was legit, and I wasnt on the hook for anything. I thought the sender would get hosed, not me. ) I guess there was an articlae on msn.com that talked about a firm out of Milwaukee that has been doing this and sure enough my envelope I got was from Milwaukee. The same group was meeting local sellers in shopping mall lots, and mugging them. In hindsight, it seems obvious, but just wanted to let anyone know that if they dont want to do cash or paypal, then tell them to take a hike.