Fwd: Re Advertised "1985 4000s Quattro" at $900.00

[Brett Dikeman]

At 9:10 AM -0700 8/12/04, mike mcclurg wrote:
>Gosh, I even put the following statement in my ad in
>Marketplace:
>
>(((Please have the exact change ready....no checks for
>thousands of dollars more than the purchase price will
>be accepted.)))

>  > We are interested in buying your above mentioned
>  > 1985 4000s Quattro  at advertised rate.

Notice the double-space after the exact text of the subject of your 
ad.  As with all of these emails, they're generated automatically by 
software that scans known classifieds sections, parsing them for the 
item name, price, and contact info- then sending out an email with 
that info filled in.

Looks like they've bumped things up a notch in the programming 
department- finally figured out people were not fooled by the ( ) 
around each item in the form letter that had been filled in.

Brett
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