Email, Facebook, Tweet, Instagram, Whatsapp and SMS EVERYONE you know in Gauteng.
Wait till someone contacts you and then try to work out who they are as your friends have shared the details.
Arrange to meet in a public place, with security, in day light, in an area you know well.
Message a friend with the name of the person, cell number, where and when you are meeting.
Make sure your phone is fully charged and has credit.
On route to meeting this guy at his place of work which is a government office, I messaged my friend with a description of what I was wearing. Having driven round the one way system in Pretoria, road blocks and protests outside the Tshwane Postal Depot. I pulled up at a petrol station to check if there was someone else near by that was secure I could meet this guy at.
I found a secure car park, parked near the entrance and security booth. I phoned the guy, told him to meet me there, kept my key and parking ticket in my pocket and paid the security guy to stand with me while I waited.
Over the top? No, not in South Africa. I was very anxious, my friends BIL took a friend with him and met the potential buyer at a mall, they were both bundled into the boot of the car they were trying to sell and held hostage a couple of hours drive away, until one of them was taken ill and they were driven back to the outskirts of town.
No I haven't sold my car yet, but he said he'll get back to me this afternoon.
I do hope he buys it, I don't think I could go throughout that again.
You've written the manual now!
ReplyDeleteFunny, but also not so funny!