DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

like the headline says ...

----------
Collins Duminda
7 Westland Gardens
Alverstoke
Gosport
Hants
UK
PO12 2LT
----------

I offered my 914 for sale on a german online market place and somebody from UK contacted me and showed interest
In general I'm open to every buyer, but this one smells a little suspect ...

I just wonder if this is a valid post address and a real person - not any kind of criminal intend ...

any input would be highly apreceated

thanks in advance,

Gustl

The address checks out:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&saf ... e&resnum=1

HTH

Gustl wrote: I offered my 914 for sale on a german online market place....

in 2001 / 2002 I won an auction for a Hammond B3 complete with Leslie - original UK 240V. Anyone into these things will tell you this is a rare beast (only around 250 having been made and most ruined).

Final bid was for about £2,500 - very good value - I was most pleased......

Guy emailed immediately the auction was over saying I had to pay immediately or he would list it again. I replied this was a little harsh, but as a gesture of good faith, I'd send 50% to him and the rest in cash on collection.

I wasn't very well at this time - so a chap who worked for me set off in a hired van (another £400 of costs all in) and drove to the address in Eastbourne.

He got there to find it was a dentist practice and no one had ever heard of the supposed seller - or my missing B3.

In short I was down £1,250 (50%) and the £400 it cost to go and collect.

Sussex Police were very helpful - the guy 'Oleg Omerovich' had numerous aliases and was linked to organised crime, money laundering, people trafficking and other horrific acts - he was well known to them but kept popping up like a weed in the garden each time he got caught out.

I don't mean to do your man a disservice - he may be absolutely delightful - but for me, unless I see someone, I'm not interested in doing high value trades at a distance.

Sorry - just my point of view....

Philip

Ian's is correct the address looks okay. I wonder if the first names are Colin S. ------- He has a foreign sounding name.

Roy

You can buy credits on 192.com and look him up on the electoral roll - in other words, identify if someone with that name is currently paying tax at that address.

Philip

Gusti

Try a Google search of the name Collins Duminda - it shows some trade directories with the same name. Looks a bit odd to me.

Roger

thanks @ all for your input

it seems odd to me too ... this is why I have my doubts ...

is there something like an online phone register for UK phone numbers ?
if I could find out the phone number, I could try to reach him on the phone and ask if he's real ... not a dentist or something else ...

of course I would prefere to sell it fact-to-face ... but I would have no problem with a serious deal with a UK guy

Gustl

Got a landline number for him ?- should begin 02392 ------

That's about 10 miles from me but an awful drive - I'd be happy to call him for you - I'll be able to tell if he's local alright.

Won't really know if he's a good buyer tho

Steve

He shows up in the Mumbai business directory for London,

I'm not racist in any way but I'd be treading oh so carefully here....

40 scout wrote:I'd be happy to call him for you - I'll be able to tell if he's local alright.

Won't really know if he's a good buyer tho

Steve

thanks for your kind offer - if I get a phone number I might come back to it

all in all it sounds more and more weird to me

I work in Gosport and can check out the address if you like....

Alverstoke is a posh area of Gosport.

Cheers

Charlie

Online phonebook is here
http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha ... h.publisha

Don't think that name is in it - but then neither am I as you can opt out when you get a bt line

Charlie McLaughlin wrote: a posh area of Gosport

Didn't know Gosport had 'a posh area'