Scam sellers on PH

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:43

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?d=7444

Fancy a Range Rover Sport 2006 - 29k on the clock?. Only £11,000 to you, Sir.

Or how about a BMW 325 soft top 2007 with 27k miles?. A bargain at £6600.

PH seems to be hit by these cretins quite regularly, although only a complete berk would be taken in by them.

stulid · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:46

nice phone number too, where does that connect too? Bangladesh?

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:47

Well, it's certainly not going to be someone in Portsmouth answering it.

[TW]Fox · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:48

Other than greedy people who would be stupid enough to even think that might be a good deal?

The government should set up a similar enterprise themselves - we could make stupidity a taxable commodity.

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:51

[TW]Fox;18035430 said:
Other than greedy people who would be stupid enough to even think that might be a good deal?

Idiots.

This has to be an absolute steal, no? :cool:

:-

SpeedFreak · 19 Dec 2010 at 16:52

While I'm not going to suggest that being stupid means that you deserve to be ripped off, when a car is that cheap, if you are foolish enough to just cough up the cash then sympathy is hard to come by. A three year old Cayman at less than 1/3 of list price would surely raise anyone's alarm bells?

Matmulder · 19 Dec 2010 at 17:42

+34 is Spain?

And don't you have to pay to put up Traders adverts? But I suppose if they sucker one person...

Scania · 19 Dec 2010 at 18:13

Matmulder said:
+34 is Spain?
.

Indeed it is.

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 18:16

I clicked on "Report to Administrator" for the Range Rover when I first started this thread. They look like they have removed that advert in particular but only that one?. Despite me adding that the other vehicles being advertised by the same seller were all obviously scans in addition to the Range Rover. Is the reporting as a scam ad system on PH automated or something?. I would have thought it sends an alert of some sort to a human admin who then looks into the adverts circumstances?.

*EDIT* The Cayman and 325 have been taken down too.

Fr0dders · 19 Dec 2010 at 19:49

to be fair to PH they do usually respond to any adverts you report.

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 19:56

Yeah, maybe it's because it's a Sunday. I see the Range Rover, Cayman and 325 are back up again.

sanaxe1 · 19 Dec 2010 at 19:58

How does the scammer get money off people? Surely people are not stupid enough to pay up front without seeing the car are they?

Fr0dders · 19 Dec 2010 at 19:59

sanaxe1 said:
How does the scammer get money off people? Surely people are not stupid enough to pay up front without seeing the car are they?

They don't pay the full ammount.

They usually pay a fee for some made up reason about needing the money to get the car off the docks or something.

People pay it, then hear nothing. People are that stupid :/

Justintime · 19 Dec 2010 at 20:00

Yes they are.

Draeger · 19 Dec 2010 at 20:10

Or worse still, some folk are that gullible that it's not unheard of for situations to arise where the buyer contacts the seller and arranges a time and place to view the car. Buyer turns up with a wad of cash all excited about getting a car at a price they can't believe and "seller" turns out to be an armed robber who relieves them of their wad of cash and legs it.

Jono8 · 19 Dec 2010 at 20:17

Just lol at those prices

chrism · 19 Dec 2010 at 20:25

range rovers back on

Dogbreath · 20 Dec 2010 at 10:01

[TW]Fox;18035430 said:
The government should set up a similar enterprise themselves - we could make stupidity a taxable commodity.

I see people queuing up at the lottery counters in shops everyday to pay their stupidity tax

DM · 20 Dec 2010 at 10:03

Dogbreath said:
I see people queuing up at the lottery counters in shops everyday to pay their stupidity tax

Well thats not actually stupid, you might even win

Draeger · 20 Dec 2010 at 10:16

I think the PH admin have taken the sellers adverts down now. The link certainly no longer works. :cool: