tdk
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Nov 15, 2017 11:34:37 GMT
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From the other side of the coin my fave is a text that solely reads "WHATS YOUR BEST PRICE M8?" instant delete... Worse than that on facebook selling a car for £850 . 200 Thats it - not even a pound sign or ' would you take ' etc I had people messaging me over a few hours asking me loads of questions sounding really interested and then they would say ' thing is i only have £150 ' . I had that once. It really annoyed me. Car was £2000, no px, no offers without viewing first. I got "500" by text, said no. Then "600" from the same number which I ignored, then "650 and px a Fiesta diesel" from the same idiot. I replied "OK, come and get her". A few hours later two cocky kids turned up, having driven 80 miles to my house. "Nah, just kidding, it's £2000" I told them. Did I feel guilty for wasting their time? Nope.
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tdk
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Nov 15, 2017 11:36:04 GMT
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"Future classic" in an advert is a NOPE from me, plus "just needs....", "ice cold air con", "probably just...." and "selling for a friend". All nope. So many good cars for sale, no need to deal with idiots
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Nov 15, 2017 14:36:55 GMT
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"Future classic" in an advert is a NOPE from me, plus "just needs....", "ice cold air con", "probably just...." and "selling for a friend". All nope. So many good cars for sale, no need to deal with idiots I hate the "been told it just needs..." adverts. Usually it's a mate of a mate has told them an oil change will get rid of that knock on the engine, or the clouds of blue smoke.
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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Nov 15, 2017 16:10:29 GMT
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"Future classic" in an advert is a NOPE from me, plus "just needs....", "ice cold air con", "probably just...." and "selling for a friend". All nope. So many good cars for sale, no need to deal with idiots
Ahh, the old - Just needs a Re-Gas one...
My Wife chrunched my old company Vectra Elite over a high kerb whilst parking. Thought nowt of it at the time but realised over the next couple of weeks that air was not cold. (Almost new car)
Put it in the local main dealer to be faced with 'Its got a crushed condeser etc. sir - That'll be £700 plus VAT!!
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-( 10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily 03 Import Forester STi - Sold 98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-( 99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold 02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX 88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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Nov 15, 2017 16:58:04 GMT
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The words "I'm not a mechanic...." always serves as red flag for me...if it's local I'd take a look but wouldn't chance travelling a distance to view it.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Nov 15, 2017 18:25:18 GMT
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Dealer or mechanics selling cars for spares or repair whith the words easy or cheap fix. Pretty sure if it was, you would fix/bodge it up and sell it on at full retail.
Or cars advertised as a good runner, with the top half of the engine in the boot.
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Last Edit: Nov 15, 2017 18:26:01 GMT by joem83
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Nov 15, 2017 20:06:05 GMT
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Quite a common one with D20 Navaras at the moment. Engine in bits in the back and people are still paying £1000 for them. Madness!!! . I replied "OK, come and get her". A few hours later two cocky kids turned up, having driven 80 miles to my house. "Nah, just kidding, it's £2000" I told them. Did I feel guilty for wasting their time? Nope. Perhaps the funniest thing I've heard today, and something I'd love to fond myself in a position to try.
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tdk
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Quite a common one with D20 Navaras at the moment. Engine in bits in the back and people are still paying £1000 for them. Madness!!! . I replied "OK, come and get her". A few hours later two cocky kids turned up, having driven 80 miles to my house. "Nah, just kidding, it's £2000" I told them. Did I feel guilty for wasting their time? Nope. Perhaps the funniest thing I've heard today, and something I'd love to fond myself in a position to try. I closed the front door and left them there. The funniest thing was they stood there for 15 minutes, presumably waiting for me to re-appear, then had an argument about something, then drove off. Most amusing.
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Nov 19, 2017 18:36:16 GMT
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Click on ebay advert to be met with "details to follow"
But details are never put up!
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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Nov 19, 2017 21:00:15 GMT
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Nov 19, 2017 21:41:02 GMT
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Quite a common one with D20 Navaras at the moment. Engine in bits in the back and people are still paying £1000 for them. Madness!!! Perhaps the funniest thing I've heard today, and something I'd love to fond myself in a position to try. I closed the front door and left them there. The funniest thing was they stood there for 15 minutes, presumably waiting for me to re-appear, then had an argument about something, then drove off. Most amusing. I’m sure it made you feel good, but it’s a wonder you didn’t get your windows put in, either the car or your house. I don’t really see how inviting someone to your house & then pi$$ing them off is a great idea.
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tdk
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I closed the front door and left them there. The funniest thing was they stood there for 15 minutes, presumably waiting for me to re-appear, then had an argument about something, then drove off. Most amusing. I’m sure it made you feel good, but it’s a wonder you didn’t get your windows put in, either the car or your house. I don’t really see how inviting someone to your house & then pi$$ing them off is a great idea. Not sure I'd do it now, this was a few years ago.
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Nov 20, 2017 10:43:06 GMT
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I saw something on ebay over the weekend that immediately made me go "NOPE". Then I mysteriously uncovered about 5 similar ads, and they all got pulled again... so it was clearly a scam.
For some reason ebay threw me up a V12 e-type Jag with a £1000 starting bid. The ad was from a seller called (EG) BillBloggs. The ad then said it was for sale, and enquiries should be made to "my fiance" who was called Ian had a gmail email address that was Ian.dhfhdfhfd.39345827345923.gmail.com.
So, so far we have a Bill Bloggs advertising the car, and the name Ian with a dubious email address.
Then at the bottom of the ad, it had a seller's details that were "Richard Snuggins Classics"
So that's three names.
But funnily enough the exact same ad text was used to sell two e-type Jags for stupidly cheap prices, and a lush 911 Turbo too. Each ad came from a different seller account. Each seller account had 'hundreds' of sales and 100% approval rating. Each ad said "Need to sell our cars quick, please get in touch with my fiance Ian"
Each Ian had a different, but very similar gmail "ianhenend.575849383774.gmail" style address.
Each address at the bottom fo the ad text was different despite the text and the treatment for the text being identical, and all ads mentioning an "ian".
Each got removed almost instantly by ebay.
And it left me wondering... were those legitimate seller's accounts that got hacked? Or is it possible to hack into ebay and set up a bogus seller account that appears to have long history and good feedback?
And I also wondered
Is it really worth all the effort setting up so many gmail accounts, hacking into (or inventing) so many ebay seller accounts, and knowing that ebay is just going to pull the ads within the hour way before you've had a chance to sell the car?
I just couldn't work out what made all that effort worthwhile. There must be some way of hacking into anyone who bids... that can be the only thing that would make all that effort worth doing. Otherwise it's just a very juvenile waste of time.
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Last Edit: Nov 20, 2017 10:44:45 GMT by Deleted
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Nov 20, 2017 11:31:39 GMT
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Quite common on Gumtree that, it only takes 1 gullible person to transfer them a deposit to make it worthwhile.
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Nov 20, 2017 11:48:52 GMT
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Well maybe, but they've got to pray ebay doesn't spot the obvious scam before the auction ends and they can get a deposit. I guess they might be gambling that somebody out there contacts them directly and asks how much for a cash sale before the auction ends, and if they get that and can do it directly without ebay mediating the transaction they'd be home and dry. But really... are people that stupid? You'd surely want to see the car first and they clearly don't even own the cars, they've just borrowed pictures in the same way they've borrowed ebay accounts and legitimate home addresses included in the ads (I looked them up on Google Maps. They were using real people's addresses). I wish I'd screen-shotted them before they disappeared. The three of them together (plus two others I didn't really pay so much attention to) make it really obvious it's a scam. In the case of the e-types there were two e-tyoes listed... so surely anyone looking at e-types would have seen both ads and realised they're the same text (with bits in blue, bold, italicised, underlined etc) , different cars, different accounts, both have a fiance called Ian but two same-but-different random generated gmail addresses, and two physical address at different ends of the country. You would have to be spectacularly stupid and yet also relatively wealthy to fall for that and hand over a deposit for an e-type Jag. The two e-types are still coming up in the search but the ads have now been removed. It's pretty obvious when you see two £1500 e-types amidst pages of £70k+ etypes...
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Nov 20, 2017 19:02:36 GMT
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Greed is strong in some. The same as the people that immediately say they will definitely havevuour car then mess you around before giving you a excuse because they have no money.
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Nov 26, 2017 10:14:41 GMT
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Just seen this on a Mercedes - "full service history" in the heading, but means...
Full service history up to 84000, but now on 146000.
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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Nov 26, 2017 10:19:35 GMT
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Just seen this on a Mercedes - "full service history" in the heading, but means... Full service history up to 84000, but now on 146000. Might be full and just not had a service in 60k, nowt wrong with that
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Nov 27, 2017 14:49:02 GMT
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I saw something on ebay over the weekend that immediately made me go "NOPE". Then I mysteriously uncovered about 5 similar ads, and they all got pulled again... so it was clearly a scam. For some reason ebay threw me up a V12 e-type Jag with a £1000 starting bid. The ad was from a seller called (EG) BillBloggs. The ad then said it was for sale, and enquiries should be made to "my fiance" who was called Ian had a gmail email address that was Ian.dhfhdfhfd.39345827345923.gmail.com. So, so far we have a Bill Bloggs advertising the car, and the name Ian with a dubious email address. Then at the bottom of the ad, it had a seller's details that were "Richard Snuggins Classics" So that's three names. But funnily enough the exact same ad text was used to sell two e-type Jags for stupidly cheap prices, and a lush 911 Turbo too. Each ad came from a different seller account. Each seller account had 'hundreds' of sales and 100% approval rating. Each ad said "Need to sell our cars quick, please get in touch with my fiance Ian" Each Ian had a different, but very similar gmail "ianhenend.575849383774.gmail" style address. Each address at the bottom fo the ad text was different despite the text and the treatment for the text being identical, and all ads mentioning an "ian". Each got removed almost instantly by ebay. And it left me wondering... were those legitimate seller's accounts that got hacked? Or is it possible to hack into ebay and set up a bogus seller account that appears to have long history and good feedback? And I also wondered Is it really worth all the effort setting up so many gmail accounts, hacking into (or inventing) so many ebay seller accounts, and knowing that ebay is just going to pull the ads within the hour way before you've had a chance to sell the car? I just couldn't work out what made all that effort worthwhile. There must be some way of hacking into anyone who bids... that can be the only thing that would make all that effort worth doing. Otherwise it's just a very juvenile waste of time. This 'seller' popped up a few time in my searches - I made a point of report as many as i could, all with a start price of £500 and the same garbage about 'please contact my fiance' with a garbage email address. Thankfully, even though his/her ads do still appear, you can rarely click through to them, as you now get 'ad not found'. Seems we are not alone in reporting the cretin....
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paul99
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Nov 27, 2017 15:05:21 GMT
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I just couldn't work out what made all that effort worthwhile. It only takes one mug to put down a £500 deposit.....
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