Complaint Review: TNT - Kathleen Scott

I received a response to an ad on Craigslist for a Dell XPS M1710-$550 the next day.

Here's the response:

Hi there,

Sorry for my late reply but I'm currently in England, Wolverhampton. I was promoted to Sales Administrator and I have to take a 6 months trainning program here in UK, before I'll be back home, in States.
The laptop is still available, in perfect condition, and I will sell it only in US because here the warranty and the DellCare are US registered.

I can't use the laptop here in UK because it works on 110 V. I didn't know about this problem when I moved here and another reason why I am selling the laptop is because I have just received a new laptop as a birthday gift here in UK, so I do not think I will be using my old laptop any more. I don't have use for 2 laptops.
I have attached some pics with the laptop to this e-mail so you can see the condition of the laptop. I bought the laptop 12 months ago and it still has 12 months of Dell transferable warranty remaining ( you can extand the warranty for one year on your name ).
I hope you are still interested and we can make the deal happen right away.
Since I can't meet you and make the exchange, I would like to use a service that will help us with that:

www.tnt.com/tnt.express.wolverhampton.depot/third_party_service.html

TNT is a worldwide delivery company (like Fedex, DHL or UPS). You can see from their procedure that you will be able to check the laptop before I receive the payment. If you are in a hurry, I will use 2 day delivery (on my expense).

Let me know what you think.

Best Wishes,
Kathleen

It came with 3 photos and the service tag. It's a legit machine registered with www.Dell.com with the warranty expired. I didn't care. I just thought she might have extended the warranty.

The process seemed legit. So I followed it and got scammed. I sent the cash as well as the Western Union Agent even sent it with the wrong name. I was very foolish.

I hope other learn from my mistake.

Uzadawg
Seattle, Washington
U.S.A.