Too good to be true?

Stolen, divorce, Hubby died, who knows.

-- "My mission in life - make everyone smile !"

Don’t go near it, send me their number and I’ll call them. i sure would jump on the plane.
Mike

I’d sure like to get my hands on that plane for $60. I’d check it out… just be real careful.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I don’t currently own any hand planes, so I’m a bit nervous of what I need to be careful about…..Obviously I’ll be careful for the standard bait-and-switch CL stuff. It’s located in a really good part of town, so I’m a little less worried about it being too shady also, but we’ll see what happens if they email me back.

-- Ryan -- Maple Grove, MN

I’ve generally gone with the “it’s worth having a bit more of a conversation” attitude towards Craigslist stuff, but I’ve also bailed out on one posting gone totally weird (decent deal on a computer, but when I called he said he wasn’t in the city that the post was in, 40 miles away, and he’d happily meet me in the parking lot of the Ikea mid-way between us. I said “no”).

Seems like the prices on the Porter Cable are a little under half of street price. When you consider that you’ll be buying them from someone without a store front or support maybe that’s not too far off the mark, though that Lie Nielsen jointer seems way way low.

Call ‘em up and have the conversation. If you get them from their house and the backstory makes sense and they’ll give you a written receipt and you feel comfortable with it, why not? And on the other hand: if things feel weird, then you might be the guy whose instincts result in return of stolen property.

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

Well, apparently it was too good to be true – for me at least. No email by this evening, and the posting has been deleted. Someone got a heck of a deal (or the poster realized their mistake, either price or otherwise)

-- Ryan -- Maple Grove, MN