Theres a local free classified service i read quite a bit looking for deals on computer and electronics stuff. http://www.craigslist.org (theres actualy sites for a truckload of cities around the country and abroad now). Kickass site to find a huge variety of stuff for sale/job openings/apartments etc etc.
However, the mere existance of craigslist isnt why I posted this. Tonight while i was looking through the computer listings, I ran across the following post/add. Ive seen this guy's posts before, they're normally quite sensible. I cant figure out of someone is playing a joke with this or this guy has just gone batsh!t insane.
Heres the link to the post: Garrr!!
I have a feeling that it will be removed in the not-too-distant future, so for posterity I copied/pasted it below as well.
My money is on demonic posession and the 'Prayer' he is requesting in payment will involve a good deal of the blood of a goat, as well as some of yours and a non-revocable lein on your soul. I could be wrong, but. . .
Probably my favorite bit is the line at the end: "NO BUILD, NO UPGRADE, NO FIX I GO HOME!!!" Uhh, yeah, good lord does that mean if you actually do perform some work you're never going to leave??
FREE COMPUTER REPAIR OR TROUBLESHOOT/ UPGRADE IN EXCHANGE FOR A PRAYER? (fremont / union city)
Reply to: anon-41020125@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-08-30, 10:43PM PDT
I WILL PERSONALLY UPGRADE, REPAIR, BUILD YOU A NEW SYSTEM FOR FREE!!! THATS RIGHT NO CHARGE (THERE MUST BE A CATCH SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH ME I AM CRAZY?, OR I AM A THIEF OR SOMETHING? NO, ACTUALLY I WANT SOMETHING FROM YOU, SOMETHING THAT IS PRICELESS IN COST, BUT COSTLY IN SOUL, I WANT A PRAYER FROM YOU TO GOD, THAT I DON"T WANT YOU TO TELL ME. I WANT YOU TO HOLD THAT PRAYER INSIDE YOU...SLOWLY INSIDE THIS SOMETHING SOME DISEASE I BELIEVE IS KILLING ME INSIDE THOUGH I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT, AS I USE TO BE A VERY LAID BACK PERSON, BUT NOW I GUESS IT IS PROBABLY MY TIME TO GO...SLOWLY OR QUICKLY NOBODY BUT GOD KNOWS.. SO HERE GOES MY AD, FEEL FREE TO QUESTION ME, BUT I BELIEVE THAT SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD THERE ARE HEARTS THAT HEAL...ALL I AM ASKING IS TO LIVE THROUGH ANOTHER THREE YEARS OF COLLEGE TO GET MY COLLEGE DEGREE AS A COMPUTER ENGINEER, AND IF I DIE AFTER THEN SO BE IT, at least I Met one Goal for my parents and myself. It would be good to see pass that day and perhaps see my other dreams come true, BUT UNTIL THEN....I will only ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER IN EXCHANGE FOR MY SERVICES, A PRAYER THAT IS DEDICATED TO MY WELL-BEING AND MORE LIKELY TO FAMILY'S WELL BEING AS WELL BECAUSE OF CURRENT HEALTH PROBLEMS I AM HAVING THAT NO DOCTOR NO BLOOD TEST,NO URINE TEST, NO CAT SCAN, NO X-RAY & 12 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL VISITS, TWO PHYSICIANS (1 BEING MY PEDIATRICIAN EVEN SINCE BIRTH, ONE EUROLOGIST, A LOT OF ER DOCTORS INCLUDING STANFORD ER & BAY AREA HOSPITALS SUCH AS WASHINGTON, St.Rose, CANNOT SOLVE. I ONLY ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER FOR YOUR PRAYER, PLEASE DON'T SAY YOUR PRAYER AROUND ME JUST KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART IF I GET TO FIX YOUR SYSTEM..TIME IS PASSING AND SO IS MY LIFE....MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND I HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO REALIZE WHAT LIFE REALLY IS AND ITS PURPOSE....LOVE, PEACE, HAPPINESS..I HOPE YOU ALL FIGURE THE MEANING OF LIFE AND I PRAY AND HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE A DISEASE TO FIGURE THINGS OUT...I PRAY FOR ALL OF YOU IN GOOD HEALTH AND FAITH IN GOD... MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL....
I WILL BUILD YOU A Computer FROM BRAND NEW PARTS THAT ONLY COSTS $250 TO A MAXIMUM OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SPEND FOR A COMPUTER THATS TOP OF THE LINE OR A COMPUTER THATS MIDDLE OF THE ROAD TO A COMPUTER THAT YOU USE JUST FOR BASIC USE!!!!!!!!!Want an..Upgrade..FREE, its cheaper to do?...Want me to Troubleshoot FREE.?..Free Advice Need a New
Computer...Repair/Upgrade...Advice/Suggestion Free!Hey there folks....Hope your all doing great...Well, here goes anything. I am a Technician of 8 years, and A+ Certified, and can do networking with basic network and the not so basic network equipment (Such as Cisco Networks), I have a large diverse profiles of PC Building, Repairing and Upgrading. You can Save a lot of Money on Building your own Computer...You can Build a state of the ART $3000 System which you see at your local best buy/circuit city/Fry's Electronics for less than half including Monitor for $1000 thats less than half, one third of the cost, and
I will only ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER IN EXCHANGE FOR MY SERVICES, A PRAYER THAT IS DEDICATED TO MY WELL-BEING BECAUSE OF CURRENT HEALTH PROBLEMS I AM HAVING THAT NO DOCTOR NO BLOOD TEST, NO CAT SCAN, 12 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL VISITS, TWO PHYSICIANS, ONE EUROLOGIST, A LOT OF ER DOCTORS CANNOT SOLVE. I ONLY ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER FOR YOUR PRAYER, PLEASE DON'T SAY YOUR PRAYER AROUND ME JUST KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART AND IN EXCHANGE I WILL BUILD your own dream computer (providing you provide parts, and I will PROVIDE SOFTWARE FOR FREE!! or any computer/upgrade for that matter ( I DO PROFESSIONAL WIRING INSIDE COMPUTERS JUST LIKE THOSE PROFESSIONAL ALIENWARE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE MORE AIRFLOW/COOLING inside the system and I also provide Software of your choice including Windows XP Professional, 2000 Professional, etc...(MS-Office 2003 Standard & Norton System Works 2003 (norton anti-virus 2003/ghost 2003, professional versions) at no extra charge included. I also upgrade computers New Motherboard/CPU Installation for flat rate of just thirty dollars(includes software. Troubleshooting your P.C. (excludes hardware installation and upgrades) but will no more be than twenty dollars @ max(and that's the max meaning Searching a couple of hours to find the not so common PC problems). Best of All My WORK IS GUARANTEED....Think of all the money you save just Building a DREAM SYSTEM WITH MORE MEMORY THAN THAT COMPUTER IN THE ELECTRONICS STORES ARE OFFERING FOR MORE SYSTEM TYPICAL SYSTEM FOR Less Than $1000.00 is as follows, if you purchase the parts on your own.
WITH EACH AND EVERY P.C. I UPGRADE/BUILD FOR YOU THE CUSTOMER I WILL PROVIDE GHOST IMAGE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE P.C. THAT WAY IN THE FUTURE YOU Don't HAVE TO INSTALL DRIVERS / OR OTHER SOFTWARE THAT HAS BEEN INSTALLED AVOID THE TRIP BACK TO TECHNICIAN's OFFICE and also not to mention headache's sometimes people have with P.C.'s. EVERYTHING THING ON YOUR COMPUTER including drivers/data/software will be back up CD's...so what are you waiting for...? Give me a e-mail if your curious? Questions?
Here is a spec of what I can build for you..at a very good exact price.. priced at today's market & priced accurately (including tax), This is one of the high end systems, ask the price for any system its up to you...I can build the most for your buck.
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz 800 Front Side Bus ($150)
-HIGH QUALITY (ASUS or ABIT Motherboards, SUPPORT DUAL CHANNEL, FIREWIRE IEEE1394 FOR CONNECTING YOUR CAMCORDER TO YOUR PC RECORDING HOME MADE DVD's.)
1 GB RAM PC2700 or PC3200 Running AT DUAL CHANNEL (INCREASED PERFORMANCE BANDWIDTH (thats right folks 1,000MB RAM) ($150.00 for PC3200)
160 GB SATA HARD DRIVE (150MB/SEC) (8MB CACHE...VERY FAST DRIVE!!!) ($120.00)
GEFORCE FX OR ATI RADEON 9800(GAMER/GRAPHICS/VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM!!!) ($120-$180)
52x CD-RW DRIVE 2MB or 8MB BUFFER(Plextor, Sony, Lite-On, ) ($35-$45)
DVD +/- RW Drive (NAME BRAND Plextor, Sony, TEAC,Mitsumi) NOT GENERIC)<-burn DVD Movies ($70-$120.00)
-EXTREME SOUND SYSTEM SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2($80.00)
-State of the art Surround Sound System ($100-$120.00)
-ATX STATE OF THE ART WITH COLORFUL FANS AND Powerful Powersupply See-Through Acrylic window or the Choice of having an Aluminum Case ($60-$130.00)
-Afraid to much of a hassle? Figure this...most companies computers go out within 2 years have software problems/hardware gets too slow? The computers that are built by hand can be upgraded for future technologies..you build your own you save a lot of money and don't lose money. Spend $1500.00 at circuit city/best buys/Fry's and you will get a system thats worth less than half the following year or years to come. While you can build the same system for half to begin with...now what do you think of that?
-Best of all When you build your own system from Hand each part is Warrantied three years....Computer manufacturers like Compaq...HP Warranty there system one year now a days...and only 90 days on Software....so what do you think of that...?
I HAVE WORKED FOR COMPANIES SUCH AS FRY'S ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUIT CITY sales positions and offering free tech support to customers..so if you have any questions feel free to e-mail me...
HAVE ANY QUESTION CONCERNS JUST Shoot an e-mail will get back to you as soon as possible...Upgrade/Troubleshooting/New PC/Network Issues...just e-mail me will give you as much as help as I can give you free suggestions/comments/advice and estimates on how much your problem...IN EXCHANGE I ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER!!!....Have a Great Day Folks!
NEED REFERENCES... I HAVE A LOT OF REFERENCES...JUST WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR Give me an e-mail, by the way I am not to good to be true. Honestly Rates are as they say they are!!! FREE TO BUILD YOU A NEW SYSTEM, SOFTWARE PROVIDED, FREE !! TO UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM, SOFTWARE PROVIDED, FREE TO TROUBLESHOOT YOUR SYSTEM SOFTWARE PROVIDED!!!!! NO BUILD, NO UPGRADE, NO FIX I GO HOME!!! I CAN ALSO GIVE YOU FREE ADVICE!!!! So please don't hesitate to ASK QUESTIONS!!!
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
41020125
However, the mere existance of craigslist isnt why I posted this. Tonight while i was looking through the computer listings, I ran across the following post/add. Ive seen this guy's posts before, they're normally quite sensible. I cant figure out of someone is playing a joke with this or this guy has just gone batsh!t insane.
Heres the link to the post: Garrr!!
I have a feeling that it will be removed in the not-too-distant future, so for posterity I copied/pasted it below as well.
My money is on demonic posession and the 'Prayer' he is requesting in payment will involve a good deal of the blood of a goat, as well as some of yours and a non-revocable lein on your soul. I could be wrong, but. . .
Probably my favorite bit is the line at the end: "NO BUILD, NO UPGRADE, NO FIX I GO HOME!!!" Uhh, yeah, good lord does that mean if you actually do perform some work you're never going to leave??
FREE COMPUTER REPAIR OR TROUBLESHOOT/ UPGRADE IN EXCHANGE FOR A PRAYER? (fremont / union city)
Reply to: anon-41020125@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-08-30, 10:43PM PDT
I WILL PERSONALLY UPGRADE, REPAIR, BUILD YOU A NEW SYSTEM FOR FREE!!! THATS RIGHT NO CHARGE (THERE MUST BE A CATCH SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH ME I AM CRAZY?, OR I AM A THIEF OR SOMETHING? NO, ACTUALLY I WANT SOMETHING FROM YOU, SOMETHING THAT IS PRICELESS IN COST, BUT COSTLY IN SOUL, I WANT A PRAYER FROM YOU TO GOD, THAT I DON"T WANT YOU TO TELL ME. I WANT YOU TO HOLD THAT PRAYER INSIDE YOU...SLOWLY INSIDE THIS SOMETHING SOME DISEASE I BELIEVE IS KILLING ME INSIDE THOUGH I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT, AS I USE TO BE A VERY LAID BACK PERSON, BUT NOW I GUESS IT IS PROBABLY MY TIME TO GO...SLOWLY OR QUICKLY NOBODY BUT GOD KNOWS.. SO HERE GOES MY AD, FEEL FREE TO QUESTION ME, BUT I BELIEVE THAT SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD THERE ARE HEARTS THAT HEAL...ALL I AM ASKING IS TO LIVE THROUGH ANOTHER THREE YEARS OF COLLEGE TO GET MY COLLEGE DEGREE AS A COMPUTER ENGINEER, AND IF I DIE AFTER THEN SO BE IT, at least I Met one Goal for my parents and myself. It would be good to see pass that day and perhaps see my other dreams come true, BUT UNTIL THEN....I will only ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER IN EXCHANGE FOR MY SERVICES, A PRAYER THAT IS DEDICATED TO MY WELL-BEING AND MORE LIKELY TO FAMILY'S WELL BEING AS WELL BECAUSE OF CURRENT HEALTH PROBLEMS I AM HAVING THAT NO DOCTOR NO BLOOD TEST,NO URINE TEST, NO CAT SCAN, NO X-RAY & 12 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL VISITS, TWO PHYSICIANS (1 BEING MY PEDIATRICIAN EVEN SINCE BIRTH, ONE EUROLOGIST, A LOT OF ER DOCTORS INCLUDING STANFORD ER & BAY AREA HOSPITALS SUCH AS WASHINGTON, St.Rose, CANNOT SOLVE. I ONLY ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER FOR YOUR PRAYER, PLEASE DON'T SAY YOUR PRAYER AROUND ME JUST KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART IF I GET TO FIX YOUR SYSTEM..TIME IS PASSING AND SO IS MY LIFE....MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND I HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO REALIZE WHAT LIFE REALLY IS AND ITS PURPOSE....LOVE, PEACE, HAPPINESS..I HOPE YOU ALL FIGURE THE MEANING OF LIFE AND I PRAY AND HOPE THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE A DISEASE TO FIGURE THINGS OUT...I PRAY FOR ALL OF YOU IN GOOD HEALTH AND FAITH IN GOD... MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL....
I WILL BUILD YOU A Computer FROM BRAND NEW PARTS THAT ONLY COSTS $250 TO A MAXIMUM OF WHAT YOU WANT TO SPEND FOR A COMPUTER THATS TOP OF THE LINE OR A COMPUTER THATS MIDDLE OF THE ROAD TO A COMPUTER THAT YOU USE JUST FOR BASIC USE!!!!!!!!!Want an..Upgrade..FREE, its cheaper to do?...Want me to Troubleshoot FREE.?..Free Advice Need a New
Computer...Repair/Upgrade...Advice/Suggestion Free!Hey there folks....Hope your all doing great...Well, here goes anything. I am a Technician of 8 years, and A+ Certified, and can do networking with basic network and the not so basic network equipment (Such as Cisco Networks), I have a large diverse profiles of PC Building, Repairing and Upgrading. You can Save a lot of Money on Building your own Computer...You can Build a state of the ART $3000 System which you see at your local best buy/circuit city/Fry's Electronics for less than half including Monitor for $1000 thats less than half, one third of the cost, and
I will only ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER IN EXCHANGE FOR MY SERVICES, A PRAYER THAT IS DEDICATED TO MY WELL-BEING BECAUSE OF CURRENT HEALTH PROBLEMS I AM HAVING THAT NO DOCTOR NO BLOOD TEST, NO CAT SCAN, 12 EMERGENCY HOSPITAL VISITS, TWO PHYSICIANS, ONE EUROLOGIST, A LOT OF ER DOCTORS CANNOT SOLVE. I ONLY ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER FOR YOUR PRAYER, PLEASE DON'T SAY YOUR PRAYER AROUND ME JUST KEEP IT IN YOUR HEART AND IN EXCHANGE I WILL BUILD your own dream computer (providing you provide parts, and I will PROVIDE SOFTWARE FOR FREE!! or any computer/upgrade for that matter ( I DO PROFESSIONAL WIRING INSIDE COMPUTERS JUST LIKE THOSE PROFESSIONAL ALIENWARE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE MORE AIRFLOW/COOLING inside the system and I also provide Software of your choice including Windows XP Professional, 2000 Professional, etc...(MS-Office 2003 Standard & Norton System Works 2003 (norton anti-virus 2003/ghost 2003, professional versions) at no extra charge included. I also upgrade computers New Motherboard/CPU Installation for flat rate of just thirty dollars(includes software. Troubleshooting your P.C. (excludes hardware installation and upgrades) but will no more be than twenty dollars @ max(and that's the max meaning Searching a couple of hours to find the not so common PC problems). Best of All My WORK IS GUARANTEED....Think of all the money you save just Building a DREAM SYSTEM WITH MORE MEMORY THAN THAT COMPUTER IN THE ELECTRONICS STORES ARE OFFERING FOR MORE SYSTEM TYPICAL SYSTEM FOR Less Than $1000.00 is as follows, if you purchase the parts on your own.
WITH EACH AND EVERY P.C. I UPGRADE/BUILD FOR YOU THE CUSTOMER I WILL PROVIDE GHOST IMAGE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE P.C. THAT WAY IN THE FUTURE YOU Don't HAVE TO INSTALL DRIVERS / OR OTHER SOFTWARE THAT HAS BEEN INSTALLED AVOID THE TRIP BACK TO TECHNICIAN's OFFICE and also not to mention headache's sometimes people have with P.C.'s. EVERYTHING THING ON YOUR COMPUTER including drivers/data/software will be back up CD's...so what are you waiting for...? Give me a e-mail if your curious? Questions?
Here is a spec of what I can build for you..at a very good exact price.. priced at today's market & priced accurately (including tax), This is one of the high end systems, ask the price for any system its up to you...I can build the most for your buck.
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz 800 Front Side Bus ($150)
-HIGH QUALITY (ASUS or ABIT Motherboards, SUPPORT DUAL CHANNEL, FIREWIRE IEEE1394 FOR CONNECTING YOUR CAMCORDER TO YOUR PC RECORDING HOME MADE DVD's.)
1 GB RAM PC2700 or PC3200 Running AT DUAL CHANNEL (INCREASED PERFORMANCE BANDWIDTH (thats right folks 1,000MB RAM) ($150.00 for PC3200)
160 GB SATA HARD DRIVE (150MB/SEC) (8MB CACHE...VERY FAST DRIVE!!!) ($120.00)
GEFORCE FX OR ATI RADEON 9800(GAMER/GRAPHICS/VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM!!!) ($120-$180)
52x CD-RW DRIVE 2MB or 8MB BUFFER(Plextor, Sony, Lite-On, ) ($35-$45)
DVD +/- RW Drive (NAME BRAND Plextor, Sony, TEAC,Mitsumi) NOT GENERIC)<-burn DVD Movies ($70-$120.00)
-EXTREME SOUND SYSTEM SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2($80.00)
-State of the art Surround Sound System ($100-$120.00)
-ATX STATE OF THE ART WITH COLORFUL FANS AND Powerful Powersupply See-Through Acrylic window or the Choice of having an Aluminum Case ($60-$130.00)
-Afraid to much of a hassle? Figure this...most companies computers go out within 2 years have software problems/hardware gets too slow? The computers that are built by hand can be upgraded for future technologies..you build your own you save a lot of money and don't lose money. Spend $1500.00 at circuit city/best buys/Fry's and you will get a system thats worth less than half the following year or years to come. While you can build the same system for half to begin with...now what do you think of that?
-Best of all When you build your own system from Hand each part is Warrantied three years....Computer manufacturers like Compaq...HP Warranty there system one year now a days...and only 90 days on Software....so what do you think of that...?
I HAVE WORKED FOR COMPANIES SUCH AS FRY'S ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUIT CITY sales positions and offering free tech support to customers..so if you have any questions feel free to e-mail me...
HAVE ANY QUESTION CONCERNS JUST Shoot an e-mail will get back to you as soon as possible...Upgrade/Troubleshooting/New PC/Network Issues...just e-mail me will give you as much as help as I can give you free suggestions/comments/advice and estimates on how much your problem...IN EXCHANGE I ASK FOR YOUR PRAYER!!!....Have a Great Day Folks!
NEED REFERENCES... I HAVE A LOT OF REFERENCES...JUST WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR Give me an e-mail, by the way I am not to good to be true. Honestly Rates are as they say they are!!! FREE TO BUILD YOU A NEW SYSTEM, SOFTWARE PROVIDED, FREE !! TO UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM, SOFTWARE PROVIDED, FREE TO TROUBLESHOOT YOUR SYSTEM SOFTWARE PROVIDED!!!!! NO BUILD, NO UPGRADE, NO FIX I GO HOME!!! I CAN ALSO GIVE YOU FREE ADVICE!!!! So please don't hesitate to ASK QUESTIONS!!!
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
41020125
