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It’s a 30 second video explaining it:
Anyone ever heard of a scam like this?
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Did they speak with some sort of an accent? It's a variant of a well known scam on another continent.
yes that or they pull a vacuum hose on the test drive
Interesting… I’m selling two cars now, and I don’t allow anyone time alone with the car, nor permit them to distract me in the way the guy in the video did.
I let the buyer look it over, but they’re not allowed to be under the hood without me watching them. Just common sense.
Kind of like the very large salesman looking at my trade (81 Mustang with 200 straight 6 and automatic). I insisted on riding on his evaluation drive and watched him rev the engine and leave his foot on the brake, with him insisting it was a “bad engine with no power”. I told him to take his foot off the brake and maybe it would work better. I got out of there when they kept my keys and tried to force me into a deal on a worn out Firebird.
I let the buyer look it over, but they’re not allowed to be under the hood without me watching them. Just common sense.
Kind of like the very large salesman looking at my trade (81 Mustang with 200 straight 6 and automatic). I insisted on riding on his evaluation drive and watched him rev the engine and leave his foot on the brake, with him insisting it was a “bad engine with no power”. I told him to take his foot off the brake and maybe it would work better. I got out of there when they kept my keys and tried to force me into a deal on a worn out Firebird.
Or, in the old days, cross two plug wires.
GEEZ…That makes trading a vehicle I look like the safer bet…
Kinda. Do your due diligence. Many police stations have dedicated areas for FTF part of online transactions. Only allow one person to come maybe two depending on your comfort level. Talk to them before hand and ask some questions to establish some things.
I had my hand-painted mercedes 240d for sale for like $1500. Some guy from Worcester, MA wanted to look at it. 2.5 hour drive. Ok, whatever. He shows up in a shiny BMW with three other intimidating friends. They take the car 2/10 of a mile up the road and back and declare that it was overheading, that the temp gauge was in the red, though it was back to normal, now.
That's technically impossible, there's no way to inject that much fuel to make that much heat in three minutes. I didn't get into it with them, I was mostly shocked by their statement.
Then they were "on me" about how they made such a long drive. I wished them a pleasant drive home.
I'm not going to let one a-hole detract from selling a car privately when it's time though.
That's technically impossible, there's no way to inject that much fuel to make that much heat in three minutes. I didn't get into it with them, I was mostly shocked by their statement.
Then they were "on me" about how they made such a long drive. I wished them a pleasant drive home.
I'm not going to let one a-hole detract from selling a car privately when it's time though.
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