Seems a bit odd to me...

[Ant Wells]

Put my car up for sale on autotrader 2 days ago and I received an e-mail of interest from someone. However, from what I can understand they are going to send a cheque of £2550, from which I am to deduct my asking price for the car and send the rest to his shipping company...

Does this seem right to anyone or could it be that they're just shipping it abroad?

Any advice is welcomed.

 

[Sean Round]

Mate, stay well away..

Its a money laundering scam...

 

[Darren]

I would say "no no no!"

for starters... cheque.
too easy to cancel and take back.

reducing asking price... means that if they buy it for say £10, and the £2500 cheque gets bounced, technically they haven't done anything wrong as your price was £10 and the shipping company bought it for that.

I'm pretty sure a while ago I heard about lots of people getting ripped off with this sort of thing.

Anything which sounds too good to be true or dodgy on the internet normally is.

As you have posted this on the forum I can guess that you already think it is dodgy... so it probably is!

Darren

 

[Darren]

here ya go chap

http://www.autoshippers.co.uk/car_shipping_scam.htm

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Scam/

i would report them to the website chap

 

[Ant Wells]

I do think it's dodgy lol who would pay £1500+ shipping to export a car that is readily available in Europe anyway?

Just thought I'd get other people's opinions

 

[Ant Wells]

Well I don't know who they are yet...I'll play along with it and see how much info I can get first and then report them. Cheers for the advice guys, glad I dodged this!

 

[Darren]

oh, and the second part i typed about the reducing cost of car I mis-read the post

I thought they wanted you to reduce the price.. hehe

defo a scam tho

 

[Tommy K]

Sister Boyfriend was about to get done until I heard about what deal he had done.


Bloke rang up and wanted his car. Said he'd pay instantly by PayPal and send a bloke on a flat bed to collect, as he was working.


Did the deal but luckily, bloke with flat bed broke down on the way to collect.


I heard about the deal and told him to check his paypal and take money from paypal and put into his bank.... which he did.


Funds not cleared!!


After 3days funds not cleared and man was there to collect the car. Told the bloke he couldn't take the car as funds hadn't cleared....

Bloke with flat bed made a phone call, then handed over the cost of the car.


Logged into paypal and the funds were still there.... so thought we'd been paid twice. Next day they had been retracted.... don't know wen they were removed, but it seems strange we'd asked paypal to move them - yet the bloke could take them back 4 days after he'd sent them!



Only sure way of a deal is cash, cash in your hand before you let it out of your sights!!!

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[Ant Wells]

There's some right tw*ts out there! Why do people think they can con people out of their hard earned money/possessions?!?

Bloody rediculous!

 

[Mike]

cant believe you needed to think about it mate lol

i had this once via swapz for my sumasung gt phone.i wanted £100 for it,this guys with 0 feedback offered me £250 inc shipping via PayPal and he wanted it sending asap..So the gf sed ok then heres my email add,which she gave him.1 hour later,in my emails there was an invoice of £250 off paypal BUT it looked doctored.the blue colour was very light sky blue and it didnt look right.
So i logged in and 0 was in it.i got on the phone to them and reported that person and also on swapz.The day later that person was not found.

scammers,will do anytiung to get money off ppl.

A Fiat Marea in a Bravo Shell..its good to be different