Craigslist scammer. How do you report this?

[DebtFreeMe]

Came across this post when I was searching adds http://tucson.craigslist.org/clt/3076648210.html

He is either really ignorant or he's just trying to steal what he can from others that are to ignorant.

Anyone know how to report this? Or should I even report it, I'm very libertarian leaning, so if consenting adults want to pay those prices for silver clad bars, who am I to decide otherwise?

[Thogey]

I should offer to buy them all and have him drive to Prescott, than change my mind.

[shinnosuke]

What does he mean be "clad?"

If you want to junk him, you simply have to click on the "spam" link in the upper right corner of his ad. If enough people click there, craigslist will remove his ad.

[Thogey]

I flagged is as miscategorized because the title says .999 fine silver art bars.

[Engineer]

I flagged the ad, but it wouldn't hurt to put up another post letting people know its a scam.

On the subject of libertarianism; I agree there's no need to report him to the authorities, but there's nothing wrong with warning your neighbors about a con man. If people keep outing him, he'll move on to greener pastures.

[Bluegill]

I'm really not seeing how this is a scam. He fully discloses what they are and the pics fully disclose what they are. He states that they are indeed clad bars, just like the pics show...

After reading the ad and looking at the pics, I knew exactly what was up for sale. I saw no misrepresentation in the ad.

However, as pointed out the title does exclude "clad". An honest oversight or deliberate misrepresentation? Seeing as how he fully states they are clad bars in the body of the ad, I 'm leaning towards the former.

That said, I still flagged him because of a pet peeve of mine. He states $20, yet that is not his true price. I get annoyed with that practice. I flag nonsense like that when ever I come across it. That is not an honest oversight...

[NHsorter]

Come on Bluegill, you really read that ad and don't think that the guy is total scum? He is clearly trying to rip off the ignorant. It's a pure scumbag play. Sure, it's probably not breaking any law, but he is still scum.

I just flagged it.

[DebtFreeMe]

Thanks all for your advice and help. Engineer, I do have to agree with your take on being libertarian, warning others about a bad deal/possible scam is different than asking the authorities to step in.

Bluegill, although I agree with you that he does state the word clad, all throughout the post he talks as if these are full silver bars; he talks about melting them down. We in the PM community know that if you melt down a clad bar you will end up with worthless crap not a lump of silver, but for those that may not be as into this as us, all they see is that it is .999 silver and may not know what clad means, and therefore miss the fact that these are just a very thin layer of silver on top of some very inexpensive filler base metal.

So is he committing fraud, no, is he playing to the ignorance of people that may be looking for the safety of hard money without the education needed to not get ripped off by some of the lowest common denominators in the PM community, yes... (Please note I think on here and some other boards, we as a community do a great job at weeding out these kind of folks early on, that's why I enjoy this community).

I have now also flagged him.

Thanks again.

[aaa30040]

Someone is selling them on ebay also. I almost bought one because after reading the title it seemed like a deal. Good thing my phone rang and I had time to read the whole listing before I hit buy now. Definitely trying to take advantage of people who only read the title, but then have no basis to complain since they didn;t read the whole listing.

[galenrog]

Sent the listed this msg:

"The clad silver bars you have listed are NOT valuable. They are art bars of a base metal that is plated with silver. The bars are NOT pure silver. The bars under the silver plating are likely a brass or bronze alloy. I am a regular buyer of silver and am offered such items on a regular basis. Look at the writing on the bar itself. The word CLAD means exactly that. Total silver weight of these bars is likely less than 1/10 gram. Please take these items to your local coin shop and have my opinion validated by a local professional."

Hope this helps the lister, but I doubt it.

[JobIII]

Way to go, team. After seeing all the fake bars, I'm sticking to junk silver. At least for now.

[OtusLotus]

the item has been flagged for removal