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BK:
Looking on ebay yesterday,came across a 1997 90 in Manchester on a classified ad,nice lookin car,black with a few toys,low mileage and two owners(turned out to be 4)at an unbelievable price of,wait 4 it....£1700.00!!!!!!!!!!! so I thought ay up whats this?so I mailed the seller and asked if the price was geniune.....turned out it WAS!!!! BUT the guy had no feedback and had been registered since 03 :-k and he said hed had a family emergency and needed the money(even though he had it on a 27 day listing :-k)so he said he was out of town and so I couldnt view it!!!EH? :shock: he said he could deliver the vehicle anywhere in the uk for free and wanted my full name and address so he could start the transaction!! :lol: :lol: :shock:he said i could HPI it from the photos on ebay :lol: :lol:!!! and was I interested?........ER NO!!! I said to him (via email cos he had left no phone number!!!)that this is not the way people do business and i would need to see the car,V5,and check it over before any £ changed hands,he said he would "offer an e-bay refund" if I didnt like the car!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :doh: :doh:.............so if anyone sees this motor again on ebay with a knock down price [color=BEWARE!!!!!!!!

BK:
OH!!!! and  :lol: :lol: :lol:just had a look now and its not there anymore!!!!!its been taken off ebay :lol: :lol: :clap: :clap

Guardian.:
theres loads of it on ebay, selling allsorts, and you have to pay and cannot collect, or they are in timbucktoo, just dont get involved as you will get stitched up, and kiss goodbye to your hard earned money.
nothing is cheap in this world, everything has its price, and always sell for around a set figure, its not likely something thats megga cheap it right or it wouldnt be there, someone would have bought it already.

BK:
Well i knew it was cheap so I had to have a nosey,it just seemed too good to be true,I have never seen a scam like that with a car,especially a landy

crazymac:
There has been loads of RR Sports on there lately like this. 06 and 07 plates with no reserve and buy it nows of £7K and the like!!!!

I tend to trawl ebay for something to do (how sad am I??) and everytime I find one I report it to them, and they are always removed.

Thing is though, some of these appear to be sellers with a few hundred positive feedbacks as well!! Their accounts have been highjacked! You can usually find the pictures the scammers are using on another genuine listing! When I see this I email the genuine seller (IE the one selling the car for the proper price!!) and they have always been greatful of the heads up.

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