Selling a car overseas - avoiding scams

For less than 1k I don't think I would want the grief with ebay and paypal, there are a lot of decent Americans as you can tell on this forum but the only ebay buyers I used to get problems with were American!

I would have thought that the shipping cost would be more than the car's value.

I had an American guy come and buy my Honda Legend recently, I was a bit sceptical as he was willing to pay essentially full price compared to the other offers I was getting.

But he turned out to be legit, he had a niche in importing right hand drive cars to the US, even if they didn't seem to be particularly exciting or rare models..

Difference was, he was in the UK at the time so was able to come buy the car in person and pay by bank transfer which I think is one of the more secure methods as a seller. I don't know if it's a viable option if they're actually in the US though?

hes selling it through a classified advert so ebay and paypal fees don't come into it

aslong as he takes plenty of pictures and has receipts of delivery to port etc I don't see a problem with it,western union as someone mentioned i do see as probably the only way to guarantee the money cant be clawed back though.1000s of nigerian scammers have been using western union for years to receive money (other nationality scammers are available)

all cars that are 25 year old or more are now very tempting to the USA at present,even in RHD form which is a bit worrying to be fair as will only make our cars rarer and more expensive than they already are

there are lots of 1990s VAG cars going over there,prices once over there are pretty eye opening

Quick update.

Spoke to the guy on the phone today. He’s offered to pay friends and family PayPal and will pay me to deliver it to Liverpool docks.

I’ve asked why he’d want to buy a car that’s not worth much in the UK and he claims they didn’t get the 460 over there (I’m going to check this). Anyway I’m going to send him some more photos and see if they put him off haha.