Calling all fraud experts

theheyes said:
Sorry, I'm just a sucker for irony.

Generally you would contact the ads company. I wouldn't bother sending the rude email, he'll probably just add it to a spam list. Waste of time.

Unfortunately if someone is going to fall for a scam if it's not that one there won't be long to wait before another comes along.
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LOL - I mean abysmAl :D
 
divosuk said:
He states :

"I dont want it to get old in my backyard"

and then states "it is with me in Germany"


It sounds a bit dodgy - and for me personally I wouldn't go near it.....but..


1st question to ask - Where is he ?
Then - Where is the car ?
Then - Where is the car registered ?
Then - How much to get the car into the UK if it's not here ?
Then - where is the history / log book VIN etc.

Simple.
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You do realise soldiers are stationed in German barracks?
 
DunK1 said:
You do realise soldiers are stationed in German barracks?
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Yes I am very much aware of that, but here's my problem. Why is this advertised on Belfast - Gumtree? Cuchulain makes a great point. Why would I buy without viewing first? I appreciate the fact he may actually be German or some other language and I'm not expecting amazing English but this really is awful. £3200 with GBP after I think pretty much says it all.
 
theheyes said:
Sorry, I'm just a sucker for irony.

Generally you would contact the ads company. I wouldn't bother sending the rude email, he'll probably just add it to a spam list. Waste of time.

Unfortunately if someone is going to fall for a scam if it's not that one there won't be long to wait before another comes along.
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Where's the irony? I don't see any. *squints*
 
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kylew said:
I know, but I still fail to see why it's ironic? Stupid maybe but not ironic...

Yes, I'm severely pedantic.
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It's ironic because he followed a statement bemoaning the state of literacy by a misspelling.

That's proper irony, not as televised by Alanis Morisette (or however you spell her name ;)).
 
sixty said:
kylew, are you on crack? Or did you just not read the original post?
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I'm being pedantic about just how loosely people use the word 'irony' or how they think something is ironic when it isn't.

A lot of people take coincidences, idiocy (not necessarily the OP) and an unfortunate circumstances to be ironic.

A good example of something being ironic is when some one tries their best to not to do something because they know that it will result in a negative outcome.

Everything they do to avoid this outcome ends up being the reason for the negative outcome after all.

So if they hadn't tried so hard to stop something happening, the thing they were dreading so much wouldn't have happened in the first place.

Simple? No? Exactly. That's why people get it to wrong.

Apostrophes though? (yeah completely unrelated I know) Are so easy to understand but I would guess that at least 50% of the people on this forum don't have a clue how to use apostrophes.

The point of this rant? I'm horribly pedantic and sarcastic which a lot of people seem to take as me being odd or stupid.
 
kylew said:
I'm being pedantic about just how loosely people use the word 'irony' or how they think something is ironic when it isn't.

A lot of people take coincidences, idiocy (not necessarily the OP) and an unfortunate circumstances to be ironic.

A good example of something being ironic is when some one tries their best to not to do something because they know that it will result in a negative outcome.

Everything they do to avoid this outcome ends up being the reason for the negative outcome after all.

So if they hadn't tried so hard to stop something happening, the thing they were dreading so much wouldn't have happened in the first place.

Simple? No? Exactly. That's why people get it to wrong.

Apostrophes though? (yeah completely unrelated I know) Are so easy to understand but I would guess that at least 50% of the people on this forum don't have a clue how to use apostrophes.

The point of this rant? I'm horribly pedantic and sarcastic which a lot of people seem to take as me being odd or stupid.
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It IS irony...

"the English is absolutely abysmul."

Yet abysmal is spelt wrong. When the entire point is about spelling and grammar :p
 
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Pestilence said:
It's ironic because he followed a statement bemoaning the state of literacy by a misspelling.

That's proper irony, not as televised by Alanis Morisette (or however you spell her name ;)).
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It's the same irony that Alanis Morissette attempts to use.

If I was to have a rant at some one for saying something like thing's apple's banana's or cane's, and my rant contained apostrophe misuse, according to your logic that would be ironic.

Moronic, yeah but not ironic.

If I was ranting about apostrophe misuse and purposefully made mistakes in my rant as a dig at people not knowing how to use them, that would be verbal irony, but the act of me making the mistake itself isn't ironic, it's idiotic or ignorant.

It's like telling some one not to do something, then doing it yourself. I'm sure there are people that would think that was also irony. No, it's hypocrisy.

 
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Strife212 said:
It IS irony...

"the English is absolutely abysmul."

Yet abysmal is spelt wrong. When the entire point is about spelling and grammar :p
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I refer you to my last post. :D

It's idiotic for him to do that. He's even being a bit of a hypocrite.

Oops looks like I've derailed another thread with me being pedantic.
 
kylew said:
It's the same irony that Alanis Morissette attempts to use.

If I was to have a rant at some one for saying something like thing's apple's banana's or cane's, and my rant contained apostrophe misuse, according to your logic that would be ironic.

Moronic, yeah but not ironic.

If I was ranting about apostrophe misuse and purposefully made mistakes in my rant as a dig at people not knowing how to use them, that would be verbal irony, but the act of me making the mistake itself isn't ironic, it's idiotic or ignorant.

It's like telling some one not to do something, then doing it yourself. I'm sure there are people that would think that was also irony. No, it's hypocrisy.
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I think your pedantry is perhaps breaching boundaries here. The OPs infraction is far further reaching than Morissette's. It DOES breach genuine irony. Should it not, I would reckon around 70% of literary irony would amount to nothing more than hypocrisy should your particular standards be taken into account. ;) There's a fine line there.
 
Irony? Yes. Idiocy? Yes. Sometimes when you go into such a rant your posts don't really make any sense. Bare in mind that I had just typed out a paragraph of the most foul and abusive email imaginable so perhaps I wasn't thinking straight. If you want my opinon, I find your views rather shallow and pedantic :D
 
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