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We’ve been trying to sell an old ShopVac on Facebook Marketplace recently. We didn’t have any hits on it for weeks, then Sandy gets a message from a guy named “Darren Knowles” the other day, interested in the item. I blocked out our personal details in the screenshots in this post, by the way. Here’s the conversation:
At the point where Darren started a Facebook call, Sandy answered it and spoke to him. She was pretty confused with what he was saying, and since the Paypal e-mail address was mine, she gave the phone to me to talk to him. I was confused already, wondering why she would give her phone number to this person, but she didn’t, he started a voice call on Facebook. I learned that afterward. I took the phone and he said he sent the $50 payment to my Paypal address and was asking if I got the e-mail or the mon
At this point I was confused for a few moments, as I read this e-mail, first to myself, then out loud over the phone conversation with “Darren” (who I also now realized had a pretty odd accent for a guy named Darren, by the way), and I told him I was certainly NOT going to pay $300 for a “Paypal Business Account” or have him pay $300 for this and re-imburse him for it. I said I’d figure this out and get back to him, then I hung up.