HAWAIITALKS!

How many have bought and then realized it might be a scam?

I'm asking because I bought what I thought was a good thing a couple of weeks ago, but now I'm seeing the exact same picture of the item I bought with the exact same post/description. So I emailed the person selling it from a different email address and low and behold, it's the same person selling it! Only problem, if you can call it that, is that it's an item that you're typically only going to have one of if you have one at all and it's kind of weird to be selling multiples of it at different prices. I bought mine for $250 and the guy's selling another one now for $300.

Now I'm wondering if this guy somehow got this thing illegally and is selling them "blackmarket". Does anyone know who to email to report something suspiscious and possibly illegal?

i'm sorry...what are you trying to ask?

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This is what I bought:
ComforTrac

The same exact posting/pictures except the guy was asking $275, not $250 like I initially thought (I had to go back and look at my old emails). Normally you would think that a person would only have one of these things around the house because he would have gotten it from his doc/physical therapist.

In his email to me when I bought it, he said that he had no papers/instructions for it because the doctor's office that gave it to him didn't have them/couldn't find them (sounded kind of funny to me, but I had no reason to not believe him). In the email I just sent him, I asked about papers and he said that he did not have them (didn't give a reason, but said he would find the instructions online).

Guess I'm just asking if anyone else thinks this is fishy sounding, too, and if there's anything I can do? Report the guy to proper authorities? I mean, it works great and all, but if he's getting his supply from somewhere other than proper places then I'd rather not be a part of his "scam". Hope that made sense...I'm just talking out loud for the most part right now...venting/rationalizing, I suppose.

some people get things like this if they require doc prescriptions and sell them online. my brother got some sleep apnea machine that requires a doc prescription from something like CL because he doesn't have insurance to pay the doc for the prescription

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so you mean you're worried you bought stolen goods?

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Yes! Thank you, Lois, for speaking my exact thoughts! LOL! I know I babble a lot, and my mind goes faster than my fingers can type. I was sitting here thinking "How do I put this so it makes sense to everyone else?" LOL!

Shin--I know people get things off of CL when they can't afford to get them anywhere else, but I was more concerned with the fact that this guy had more than just the one item he sold to me--normal people wouldn't have two or three of these things in their house. Or at least I don't think they would....

well since you dont know for sure if its stolen theres not much to do. it would be hard to try and trace the item

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Yeah, you're right...I just hate the thought that I may have inadvertently "helped" someone get rid of "merchandise".

i now where your coming from ive heard some pretty bad stories from CL

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• he's coming across like it is his personal one, but if he is the same person, then yeah imho i think it sounds funny. BUUUT like Robin said, cannot prove anything, so watchu gonna do? unless you save all the listings (if there's more after this) and then you detective out and find out if the seller works at a medical warehouse and is lifting these things.

• i know i wouldn't have the time to do that. if he's doing this shit then he'll get his.

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It's definitely the same person. I emailed him from another email account I have and his reply came back with the same email address. I still have the emails he sent to me from when I purchased from him and I have his phone number as well.

You should hear the stories i've heard concerning the Personals Section of Craigslist.

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And here I thought "CERVICAL TRACTION UNIT" was like a sybian or something. *head smack* filthy mind!

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Ty is trying to figure out how it works!

Ya sick bastid!

MMMMM Sybian!

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Yah, lol. I'm not sure which part im supposed to insert into my cervix.

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well if it bothers you i'm sure there's a unit you might be able to contact with your concerns and the emails you have gathered so far.

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ROFL!!!

I know peeps that recovered their stolen stuffs via craigslist.

I suggest you tell less ppl what you bought MLE, esp if it was a deal

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When I saw the first pic I thought it was a self-serving sex machine, with a vibrator attached to the chair...complete with a gauge to measure rpm's!!! MEAN!!...but I was wrong .

If the seller has "multiples" of the same item, he could have bought it in bulk (like pallet size) at a discount, and is trying to sell it individually for a profit. If his price was at a discount compared to buying it from a reputable source, that could be what's happening. Ebaying-at-Craigslist.

P.S. I wish I had a cervix. Those Hondas are so compact and easy to park...oh wait...that's a civic.

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Hey, don't diss Medical Fetishism. Ever wrap a girl in miles of ace bandages and then stuck her to a pole for several hours?

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Then your next thought was "Why is MLE buying one of those? And telling everyone about it!"

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Actually, my next thought was "Ooohhh...MLE...you bad-bad girl . How about you, your sex-machine, and my video camera? We go..."

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Oh jeez! At this rate, we're going to have to move this AD! Besides, I'm a good girl , not one of those weird, fetish crazy ones leading double lives .

And what the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!

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You're a dude.

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