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Jim Selby Junior Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 28 jacksonville Florida USA excelsior mini, colt sp350	Unsolicited advertisement. Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 10:18am I know this isn't where I should post to but I just received an unsolicited email wanting me to buy 14000 woodworking plans. I am here to share and receive information with other members of the forum not get advertising from a scam company.
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Reply #1 - Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 11:12am

Jim Selby wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 10:18am:

I know this isn't where I should post to but I just received an unsolicited email wanting me to buy 14000 woodworking plans. I am here to share and receive information with other members of the forum not get advertising from a scam company.

At my age there's no way I'm going to get to use 14,000 woodworking plans anyway! Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

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Don Stephan WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2,659 Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio USA Gender:	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #2 - Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 2:19pm Jim: are you suspecting it originated at Woodtuirners Resource?
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Ron Sardo WR Administrator WR Patron Offline Chief cook and bottle washer Posts: 9,674 Drums Pennsylvania USA PM 3520	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #3 - Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 2:37pm I get them too, they don't originate here
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Rob Grindler Senior Member Offline Posts: 302 kelowna British Columbia Canada Gender:	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #4 - Aug 2^nd, 2020 at 4:23pm I get those on Facebook.
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Jim Selby Junior Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 28 jacksonville Florida USA excelsior mini, colt sp350	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #5 - Aug 6^th, 2020 at 6:46pm It had the symbol for the forum that is the reason I opened the email.
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Ralph Fahringer WR Addict Offline I'm the "Burly" Man!! Posts: 1,629 Ellsworth Maine USA Gender: PM3520b	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #6 - Aug 7^th, 2020 at 8:32am I wouldn't be in such a rush to delete it. Who knows, there might be almost 5 or 6 thousand good ones in that bunch!!
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Reply #7 - Aug 7^th, 2020 at 8:41am

Jim Selby wrote on Aug 6^th, 2020 at 6:46pm:

It had the symbol for the forum that is the reason I opened the email.

Sadly, its not hard to steal a logo, symbol or jpg from the internet.

All websites that have their logo shown in a tab use the same name for that image (favicon.ico). If I were forced to guess I would assume that a dubious character would use that name along with some html embedded in an email which it would then look into your cache to retrieve the image.

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Paul Haus Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 140 Minneapolis Minnesota USA Gender: Jet 1642 extended to 60 inches	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #8 - Aug 9^th, 2020 at 2:15pm I've been getting garbage emails like that for XK plans for $xx.99 which is actually worth about $1.95 long before I joined this site. I guess that means: Tag, you're it!
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It was about 10 yrs ago I clicked out of curiosity. I was amazed that he was showing an item which he had developed plans for. It was my all wood recumbent trike named Dragonwood. Built without plans. Proud to say it took 2 trophies at Detroit Autorama. I wish he would send me that detailed set of drawings and material list that never was.
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Reply #10 - Aug 9^th, 2020 at 4:49pm

David Moeller wrote on Aug 9^th, 2020 at 4:37pm:

It was about 10 yrs ago I clicked out of curiosity. I was amazed that he was showing an item which he had developed plans for. It was my all wood recumbent trike named Dragonwood. Built without plans. Proud to say it took 2 trophies at Detroit Autorama. I wish he would send me that detailed set of drawings and material list that never was.
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David Moeller Senior Member Offline Old chiseler Posts: 314 Linden Michigan USA Gender: LAGUNA REVO 15X24 CONOVER 15 x Infinity Long gone: Shopsmith, Myford ML8, Homebuilt bowl lathe, NOVA benchtop, Delta 46-715 and a Unimat.	Re: Unsolicited advertisement. Reply #11 - Aug 9^th, 2020 at 7:15pm That's me.
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Reply #12 - Aug 10^th, 2020 at 4:35am

look at it this way, most of those plans come from sites that offer them for free! don't waste your money. look for that specific plan you want on the internet, its free to look at the millions of plans out there.

this is what i do. i search for a specific plan or item. i wanted to build hope chests for the girls. plans ranged from free to $30. nothing i liked except for 1, and they wanted $25 for it. i printed out the picture, grabbed pad and pencil and in a couple of hours had working drawings that i built. as i built, i modified the plans for future builds learning as i went along.

do what i did, tell Ted's Woodworking no way.

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Reply #14 - Aug 10^th, 2020 at 8:13am

David Hamann wrote on Aug 10^th, 2020 at 4:35am:

i printed out the picture, grabbed pad and pencil and in a couple of hours had working drawings that i built. as i built, i modified the plans for future builds learning as i went along.

If I'm looking for something in particular, this is how I do it as well.
A photo or basic drawing is all you really need. JMO

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