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shardian:
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--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 17, 2007, 10:57:48 am ---sharidan, you live in a different place than he does. In some areas it's just not wise to let someone case your home after advertising that you have expensive things in it.
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That's pretty much the situation. Lived in a poor part of a college town for years, and it just evolved as a common sense thing.
One of the few times I did let some buyers into the gameroom, some of my stuff disappeared. Basically, I used to pick up jewelry I found in parking lots. We're not talking anything valuable, but single earrings or the occasional bracelet. Had it up on the wall in the gameroom as a "treasure" display.
Two guys show up from Dallas to buy one of my machines, one of them was left in the gameroom alone for 2-3 minutes. He managed to take most of the stuff and snag some random small things on the floor under one of the games.
Then you always run the risk of, "oh wow, I don't want this game, I want THAT one" and they're trying to get your Funhouse for $300.
And..... then I moved to St. Louis and there's so much weird and random crime. :-P
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The more I hear from you guys who are in bigger cities, the happier I get for deciding to stay in WV.
ChadTower:
This type of crap happened a lot where I lived in NS, which was very very rural. People would go to buy an item 50 km from their house, case the joint, and if it was worth it, burglarize the place later on. It's not a city/urban thing, pieces of crap criminals are everywhere.
shardian:
Well damn. i need to turn to a life of crime because I have been to some rich people's houses. :laugh2:
ChadTower:
Can't tell you how many times I've gone to look at a game or console purchase and it's a $700k+ house... the guy isn't quite home yet from some errand... and he left his wife alone to answer the door to some random guy from the internet.
I don't even want to go inside in those instances it's such an ill advised thing for them to do. I won't even let my wife answer the door to give away a Freecycle item if I'm not around. She puts it out on the porch and locks the door.
Crax:
Anybody have any experiences with google checkout? It's pretty new still, so I don't know if very many people are using it yet, but could be an alternative if you are having problems with paypal
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