Jacob - Expect Random

Ok so I have been trying to sell a diamond ring on ebay and craigslist for like the last two months.  Craigslist was a total bust, because I received about 8 scam attempts in the first three days.  Then my first attempt on ebay was obnoxious because some idiot, who was probably attempting to scam me, used the “Buy it Now” for full price, and I never heard from them again.  So basically I had to wait two weeks before I could report the item unpaid, then another 9 days before I could close the case because the buyer STILL hadn’t responded in any way to ebay or myself… During which I can’t be doing what I set out to do which is sell the RING.  Anyway this morning I had an email saying I had a question from an Ebay user about my listing.  The question was as follows:

Which, due to my months of practice, keen eye for scams, and lack of retarded tendencies, I replied with the following:

No, you are a scam. (This is actually similiar to my reaction each time, if I actually bother to reply)

So you would assume the person would see that and be like oh crap, and move along, or delete their account, etc.  However, this idiot didn’t even read the reply, they simply saw that they had one, and went on with their scam:

 HI ,

I’m very glad that the item is still available! (Is that what I said?)
First of all I want to apologize for my english and for my late answer, I was out of town with some business. (Yeah your answer was so “late”, I waited hours for it)
I decided to buy your item so please tell me if it`s necesarry to bid on it.
Like I said you in my first email I want you to ship it via FedEx International Priority (3 days or so) because I need it fast.

Blah blah blah, they always need it fast, they are almost always in another country, they never speak very good english, or ironically, the only ones that speak english fine, apologize for it.  In any case, I just thought it was funny that I got another response despite my answer.

Anyway, the person’s email address is fabanlom@me.com which is interesting because those are paid accounts, unless they just open trials all the time and discard the email address when one of their scams finally works…  Otherwise, their ebay name is luidarteee and he/she referred to her/himself as Fabian. 

Not sure what the point of posting this was, but maybe you will recognize a scam, because if they haven’t gone anywhere yet, they are gonna be around for a while.