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Selling my car
Topic Started: Mar 22 2011, 08:31:16 AM (209 Views)
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I advertised my car for sale on the Internet last week, and I have had 4 interested buyers so far, all from overseas.....

Knowing something about scams, I did some checking on the email addresses and phone numbers used.

The common trick is:
They agree to buy the car, trusting your word that it is in good condition.
They send a cheque for the amount + an extra $750 (or so) on top to cover freight costs, and ask you to send that $750 by Western Union to the freight organiser.

Result so far:
You have a cheque in your account for $x,000
You have paid out $750 in your real money.

Result in 2 weeks time:
The bank bounces the original cheque, you have $750 less than you did before, but normally you still have the car, as no one comes to collect it.

The Scammer has your $750.
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ABCDiamond
Mar 22 2011, 08:31:16 AM
I advertised my car for sale on the Internet last week, and I have had 4 interested buyers so far, all from overseas.....

Knowing something about scams, I did some checking on the email addresses and phone numbers used.

The common trick is:
They agree to buy the car, trusting your word that it is in good condition.
They send a cheque for the amount + an extra $750 (or so) on top to cover freight costs, and ask you to send that $750 by Western Union to the freight organiser.

Result so far:
You have a cheque in your account for $x,000
You have paid out $750 in your real money.

Result in 2 weeks time:
The bank bounces the original cheque, you have $750 less than you did before, but normally you still have the car, as no one comes to collect it.

The Scammer has your $750.
Its a huge, well known ebay scam. They are usually from Nigeria.
i had one guy who bought a $10 item from me and sent a cheque for $1000! Errmm? A few too many zeros I tell him. Oh he says, in that case you can give the "change"to my agent (read money launderer!) when he picks up the item. Opps too late I tell him I have ripped it up and reported him...never heard from him again :whistle:
Edited by Hevs, Mar 22 2011, 09:12:53 AM.
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Theres another huge scam for large ebay items...... The buyer pays you with Pay Pal, then tells Pay Pal they never got the item. Pay pal automatically find in the buyers favour. NEVER except pay pal for a pick up transaction.........
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We sold the old hyundai on Ebay and buyer bought it on buy it now within 15 mins. Instructions said cash on pick up but the bloody buyer was in NSW and paid via paypal.

I was really annoyed, wanted to refund the paypal and buyer got shitty as wanted to pick up the car. I said no way and waited until paypal payment cleared and was in my bank account.

Buyer sent his son to pick up the car and they harrassed me with emails and phone calls complaining about the car, saying it had stuff wrong with it. This was crap as we had the car serviced and paid $900 to get it roadworthy and it was sold with 5 months rego, and valid roadworthy. It was his own fault for not coming and inspecting the car before buying so I told him to basically f##k off.

Then then the idiot started a dispute with Ebay which evenually was thrown out the window as he had nothing to stand on, but it was stressful and took a lot of my time replying to Ebay etc. He tried to leave me bad feedback and I left him the same but we argeed though ebay negotiations to withdraw the feedback for each other, which was fine, although I still think the idiot deserved bad feedback but I had to withdraw it to have mine withdrawn too.

All in all, I would never sell a car on Ebay again - way to much stress involved.
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