pwood999 said:
Silly people should view & test drive the car . . . . . & then pay when they collect it.
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Learned that lesson the hard way, bought my last Disco D1 on "the bay", guy had it in Brisbane, 2000 klms south of where I live, in the photos it loked perfect, despite many phone calls and assurances from him the Disco was good it was not all it was said to be, and I was the highest bidder and paid with Paypal.
Flew down to pick it up, great, clutch was not working, would not disengage, the release fork had broken, and a long time ago, the car had been parked up for a while, though still registered.
Despite threatening to wring this guys neck I had to live with the fact it was going to be a long drive back with no clutch, the trip was a nightmare, I could have had the clutch fixed but did not have the funds or time to have it done before we were home, and I always do all my own work. Got all the way back in 24 hours, only went through one red light at about 3am in Cairns, still knife edge stuff.
The good thing is, after replacing the clutch and fitting a new release fork the Disco has been a great buy for the bargain price I bought it for, just the start of the relationship was a bit rough.
Reported the guy to ebay, no replies, I guess they got their cut and were not interested in the wash up.
So my advice, as has already been said, see it and drive it, then pay the dosh if it is all as advertised, otherwise walk away.
 
Go to Range Rover on the bay, refine to Newly Listed and low and behold there are '9' scams in the first 12 listings, WTF?
My gripe is with Ebay, how are these even getting on there?

A blind man could spot they are bogus from a standing mile but the law of averages suggests some naive bugger is getting stung!!
 
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It would seem that the £5k mark would avoid some of the fraud detection software or so they think. My friend was scammed by somebody pretending to be from talk talk and were on the phone to him in the process of transferring £5k out of his bank and his bank phoned him on his mobile and told him to hang up as they had blocked it which I thought was pretty good.
 
I was scammed years ago, was looking for a door for a car of mine and decided to use find-a-part, turns out you can quite easily buy the software that breakers use to see your request, long story short I received a call from what I believed to be a legitimate breaker who surprise surprise had exactly what I wanted in correct colour and very cheap and would be sent quickly.... I stupidly gave my card details without checking the given landline number, needless to say when I did try it it WASN'T a breakers, sh!t...drove to my bank and they were in process of blocking the fraud already.
The tea leaf 'breaker' had already used my details to buy 14 £10 phone top ups.., all refunded by bank amazingly, given my stupidity.
Got in touch with find-a-part to discover they knew all about this crook but between themselves and the Police they couldn't trace him. Useless.
Obviously this crook was sitting comfortably somewhere intercepting random requests and getting a few mugs like me who should know better.
Lesson learned...I think.

Mere peanuts compared to being scammed buying a half price RR or Q7 though, :eek:
 
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If you see a scam listing in eBay, please report it. I have reported two this morning, one Range Rover, the other a boat. Both listed at £5k or under and both really worth about £10k.

Other clues are phone and email in the listing and a request to use them to make contact rather than go through eBay. Usually very low feedback, ie under 10, and usually accounts that have been dormant do a while.
 
Just a pity Ebay won't do their job and Police their website for the benefit of honest buyers and sellers.
All about the money for them.
 
myfirstl322 said:
This probably.:(
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-paid-5190-for-a-car-on-eBay-where-is-it.html

I recall when I advertised my l322 I was hounded by a scammer claiming to be an off-shore worker who wanted to buy it for HER 17yo son, 'she' wanted my paypal details to do an immediate payment and arrange collection.....yeah right, I basically said cash only deal and after a few more attempts at getting my details 'she' gave up.
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yes.. there's that scam.. to pay by paypal, and once the vehicle is collected, dispute the transaction, where paypal then rescind the funds.

This can be done even after the funds have been transferred into your account.

i've had a few people want to buy one of my cars unseen. If someone wants to buy unseen, its bull****, i wont even get into discussing price until someone has actually viewed it.

the cheap 'deal' car is often to take the money then never deliver.

If a deal is too good to be true. then it is.
 
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My brother suffered the Paypal scam on a £1000 Suzuki jeep sale. PayPal wanted proof of postage !!!

But eventually we got refunded after they admitted the credit card on buyers account was stolen.

Always used cash for cars before & ever since. And always test drive & view documents.
 
PayPal payment protection doesn't extend to cars, so not sure the dispute route really works. Someone tried to scam me once by insisting if I wanted to buy the car I had to pay on PayPal. I said no, cash on collection, they suddenly went very quiet on me.
 
holidaychicken said:
Have you been reporting them or tried to arrange a viewing ?
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Been busy, Just tuned in to my usual What looks tempting on the bay . And tbh I'm tired of the rigmarole, there should be a mahoosive report this ad button on every ad
A Landyzone massive viewing would be entertaining, particularly if you spun @gold rover round 30 times, head on her baseball bat, and then shouted 'Dick @ 9 o'clock'....:eek:
Imagine the giggles as she reels round and round, and lands on me with my big haggis supper!!
Aren't I offal...:D
 
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This one is suspicious to me, but not because of the price (WHICH IS A SCAM!!!!!).....but because I'm fairly certain this car was up for sale last month for c.£12k.
Are these scammers stealing ads somehow and regurgitating them with ludicrously low prices?
 
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