RE: {Chrysler 300} Parts for 58 D convertible

You wrote that you joined the club on June 27 and placed an ad on the Club's website on June 29. But the Club does not allow members to directly place ads on the website. You have to submit an ad to Bob Merritt (I believe) and he will add it to the website a few weeks later.

Another thing: If you are contacted by an individual based on a parts for sale/parts wanted ad you posted, if the name doesn't sound familiar such as a frequent contributor to the group, then post a message asking if anyone has done business with that person. That's how we ferret out scammers on facebook. That would work here on the listserver as well.

Hello all,

I've thought about responding on this subject for some weeks now, procrastinating as usual. However, the continuing contacts that I have received from scammers coming through the club's website makes me think that maybe I have a responsibility to speak up. Here's my tale:

With the restoration of my 300E coming along nicely, on 27 June of this year I joined the club. I was immediately favorably impressed with the "in house" technical discussions, and parts sales and suppliers sourcing that I saw happening on the almost daily "listserver" emails that I received.

As soon as I joined, I placed an ad in the "Parts Wanted" section of the club's website for a few 300E parts that I still needed (power antenna, map light lenses, horn pad).

On 29 June, immediately after joining the club, an email came across the listserver (to all of us) stating that a member was breaking up a 300E for parts. Hey, the fish were jumping in the boat!

To make a long story short, the guy had a great story and seemed perfectly legit, but I lost some money to a scam. At that stage, I just couldn't bring myself to believe that scammers would be active in such a narrowly focused sphere as we 300 guys live in. Bob Merrit and Gloria Moon were very helpful and I still really enjoy, every day, reading the club members' back and forth comments on such a wide variety of subjects.

However, scammers operating inside the listserver email chain were not the only issue. Twice since, I have been contacted by scammers responding to my "Parts Wanted" ad. By now, I hope I'm wary enough to smoke out a scam, but folks, it's not just Facebook that has the problem. There's trouble here in River City.

I guess my net comment is, of course, to beware.

And, oh yeah, I'm still looking for those map light lenses and I really need a power antenna assembly (or at least the chrome bezel that sits on top of the front fender).

Wish I could have attended the recent California event. Sounded great.

Colin Campbell

Salt Lake City, Utah

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 9:43 PM Ron Waters <ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fair warning. This could be a scam. His facebook profile says he lives in Los Angeles. But he said in the post that he lives in Ohio. There are lots of scammers on facebook polluting our car groups. A red flag is that he doesn't answer questions and just says 'PM me'.

Ron

From: chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chrysler-300-club-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jwheath68
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2022 10:12 PM
To: Chrysler 300 Club International
Subject: {Chrysler 300} Parts for 58 D convertible

A fellow Named Matt Lester in a FB group entitled 1957 1958 1959 Desoto And Chrysler Owners Parts For Sale/Wanted is selling fenders, doors, bumpers, interior, full dash, more I think as a lot, wants to messaged for price, looks like LA area. If anyone is interested. Jim
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