domderbyshire

domderbyshire

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Morning, All.

Just a heads up on item number 262851648191. I enquired about this vehicle back in the summer and was told it would be shipped to me on release of funds, sent to the seller through PayPal. I walked away, especially as the seller would only converse via email and was vague about the specifics of the vehicle. There seem to be a lot of these types of advertisements around at the moment that offer the car cheaply and demand contact via an email address. Be careful!

Many thanks,

Dom
 
You can also see a reflection of a man in one of the photos. I asked if I could speak with him to discuss the car, but received more evasive answers in response. At least last time it was not SO ridiculously cheap. If I could have that car for 4K I'd be pretty pleased with myself!
 
domderbyshire said:
Yes, it is, but it's presented as a classified listing, so that's the price the vehicle is offered at as there's no auction on the item.
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I meant a reasonable starting point from which to haggle. I'd struggle to give more than £2000 for an 18yr old tratter personally, but I hear they've gone up in price lately
 
I didn't report it, but it does indeed appear to have gone. Perhaps eBay themselves spotted the duplication of the previous ad. and pulled it.
 
There does seem to be rather a lot of this around at the moment, when I was looking for my defender a month or two ago I kept coming across them- almost all listed the location as generically 'London' and wanted contact via email, as far as I can tell they're cloning other people's listing (or at least pinching thier images,) I came across a few where I'd looked at the genuine listing a few weeks previously. Apparently they get you communicating outside of eBay, ask for payment by bacs or western union with the promise of shipping the car, of course no car arrives and having completed the transaction outside of eBay you have no comeback. In all fairness however, you'd have to be a bit mad to send a private person large sums of money with no recourse in the first place!
 
I am part of a team of volunteers who report dodgy listings and also help people who have been scammed get their money back, yes it is true most scammers use barclays bank and when pressured in the correct way they cough up because they are hosting the fraudulant account.
There are 1000's upon 1000's of listings like these, motor homes, motor bikes, cars 4x4 and even commercial trucks.
I have been using ebay since 2001 and helped on the official help forums for 8 years, now it is all done away from ebay as we used to use private groups hosted by ebay but they started spying and removing members who had got to know a bit too much.
I wouldn't buy a vehicle unless I had seen it, had a drive, got the paperwork and paid cash and driven away. It amazes me how many and there are 10's of thousands of them who see one of these adverts and pay up front never seeing the vehicle, some get sold up to 30 times before the single listing is removed after being reported. Jack Buster team has already helped get back over £2 Million to scammed people, get 1000's of accounts shut down in the last two years alone.
 
Yes there are four other listings from him, all massively under priced. A classic Ford, a motorhome, JCB and a caravan.

lt's amazing how these scammers can brazenly operate in public without anything being done.
 
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