Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Posted on Craigs list
I did report this ad to the st.louis PD

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M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

Looks suspicious but you can do the exchange at a local police station.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Oie!!!

JohnM Loc: Springfield, Illinois

may have been the kit that was dropped into the river?

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

You call the # for me and I will do the exchange at Th e PD

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Yeah right !!!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

It could also have been the photographer died and the family was selling the gear without knowing its real value.

Back in the 70's two friends of mine stopped at an estate sale on the front lawn of a house in Beverly Hills and found it was the gear of a Hollywood portrait photographer who has died and his sister, who knew nothing about photography was selling his stuff and giving the money to charity.
One guy got a Leica for $35 and the other got a Hasselblad for $50. (each with a lens) They tried to explain the real value of all that gear to the lady but she told them "Thank you, I will put the higher prices on the other things but you two get those at the marked price for being honest. The money is all going to charity. My husband and I don't need the money as we are very well off, or we wouldn't be living where we are." Even the professors in the photo department at the university were impressed - one of them contacted the women and bought everything that was left, all the studio gear and took over the lease on the studio which the lady didn't know what to do with as it was paid for a year in advance.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Odds???

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

Once on the New Haven Craigslist I saw an ad for a 3D printer. In one of the pics you could clearly see a label that said "property of Yale University".

I reported it to a very appreciative detective on the Yale Police Force. Sent him a link to the sale.

In New Haven the Yale Police have the same powers of arrest as the New Haven police.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

That makes sense but the phone number is a South Texas number, I'll leave it up to the St.Louis Detectives

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Lottery ticket odds

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Could be a cell phone number. Our oldest son has kept his cell phone number after two moves, 6 years on active duty in the Army etc.
With computers to keep track they no longer make you change your number every time, at least not with cell phones.

Or it is being sold by a business that handles Craig's List, Ebay and other on line sales. Thanks to the internet they can be just about anywhere and still handle your sale for you. You just have to give the items to the buyer when they show up to get them.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Here in So Cal we had a small news filler article about a lady who had her very high end mountain bike stolen. She watched the local Craig's List and sure enough it appeared for sale. The picture even showed a couple of scuff marks she recognized. So she took a friend and they drove over to look at it (the guy had a big sale at a swap meet). Serial numbers filed off - except one place she had engraved it in a hard to see spot. She asked if she could take a test ride around the block and he said OK, after all I have your car here (her friend was ducked down and hiding.) So she took off down the street and her friend took off after her in the car. She called the local cops and told them what happened and gave them her report number from when it was stolen from her garage the week before.
Guess what, the cops never heard anything about a stolen mountain bike and the people who ran the swap meet found the guys ID and info was all fake.
So she stole her own stolen bike back and the cops laughed about it.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Cell phones are portable, both figuratively and literally.
(The "wireless" system doesn't care where the phone is located. But some people change them when moving to get a local number for where they moved to. We did.)
Land lines not so much. They have to stay because they are hard wired to the local exchange.