I received this email (to undisclosed recipients) which is well into the "seems-to-be-good-to-be-true" territory:
"I got a Yamaha Baby Grand Piano to give away to someone that can cherish and take good care of her. Let me know if you are interested or refer someone who might be interested."Not recognizing the sender, I replied:
"Have I seen this piano before?" (a good opening query to disguise my distrust)
The reply: "
The Yamaha Baby Grand Piano (model #DGB1) used to be owned and played by my husband who passed away last year. It was last tuned sometimes around October last year before he passed. I'm moving my properties to California and I don't think my husband will be happy if I sell this piano, at the same time am settling to a home of lesser space, so I'm hoping to give it out to someone who is a passionate lover of the instrument. I wasn't going to leave it alone in an empty house.The Piano is currently in storage in Tennessee with the movers I employed to move my properties from my house. In attachment is the pictures of the Piano. Do let me know if you are interested."
This could easily be a set-up for me to agree to pay shipping costs for an excellent & free piano, only to have the piano disappear into thin air once the check for the shipping clears. I know my next reply, but I wanted to see if maybe some scammer had scraped up all the addresses on this list, with the result that all of you had received the same offer.
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William Ballard RPT
WBPS
Saxtons River VT
802-869-9107
"Our lives contain a thousand springs
and dies if one be gone
Strange that a harp of a thousand strings
should keep in tune so long."
...........Dr. Watts, "The Continental Harmony,1774
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