topaz

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Someone bought a CSL and paid in full.

The delivery never arrived

http://www.cslregister.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1483

haz87

Ouch

carfixz

so he paid all that money for a car he had only viewed in pictures sent to him, some people are far too trusting,
personally if i was spending that much money on a car i would like to physically see the car and drive it.

999

oooo that would hurt

Elvis

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FPMSL, paying for a car before seeing it,

fuzzy

to trusting? id say thats downright stupidity if its true . a fool and his money is soon parted.what sort of idiot buys an expensive car, pays up front and hasnt even seen it in real life?

rs1072

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OMG

tejy

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omg..i got scammed too..but it was for an xbox 360 on gumtree...Ł200 of my student loan gone on nothing

matts1

WTF!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE ARE STILL IDIOTS THAT FALL FOR THIS!!

"I had payed the full amount to have the car shipped to me and then made aware today that its a scam and its just randoms pics of a car."

I would also like to see how cheap the car was? too cheap perhaps??

It is almost laughable imo that someone would pay for a car in full without viewing it. Especially one where the owners had moved abroad and taken the car with the number of scams that use this ploy.

There is always one (or four in this case lol!!) out there that make these scams going.

matts1

to add, he did a hpi check - where did it come back to on the address iirc you have to confirm where they live and the chassis number.

iirc you can confirm

reg
chassis number
date or first reg
number of owners
owners name and address
date they bought it

surely the scammer didn't have all that info?

Rab

You have to wonder just how some people manage to survive on a day to day basis with that kind of stupidity fogging they're brains.

matts1

Rab, makes you wonder!!

I can appreciate getting stitched up on an an item for a couple of hundred, but he must have been talking ALOT of money.

Thing is usually these scams are done by advertsing the car VERY cheap, so greed must play a large part

Lambchop

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topaz any idea what the reg was?!

JK99

It's a lassie from up this way that 'bought' it.

She paid market price for it really - so she'll be down over Ł20k! A massive lesson to be learned from this. Still can't believe she would've bought a car for that sum without ever seeing it!

The story was fairly common for up here - a lot of high end motors are sold on behalf of people as the owner works abroad due to the Oil. I guess that's one reason why she was more comfortable with doing the deal.

topaz

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Yes, it was a car for sale recently that had already been sold, dont want to disclose as that car has a new owner. The scammer used the pics on the original advert.

Lambchop

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I just spoke to RS Toughy and wondered if it was the one he was having. ie advertised elsewhere using the pics.

S1rst

Shocking! But even more shocking that someone can even consider it as genuine.

As much as i feel sorry for the guy, as long as there are mugs like this around then the scammers are staying put and earning obsene amounts of money from it.

Mister G

That's awful. That said I wouldn't hand over my hard earned for a car I wasn't driving away that day....

JK99

This one was black when I saw the pics on EastsideVW. Is the one Toughy went for black?

Lambchop

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no dark grey, phew!

kosman

what a fookin wally

dreamin

i wouldnt part with ANY amount of money wether it be large or small for a car ,

wot is wrong with these peole , more money than sence is definately summed up here me thinks !!!!!!!!!!

LIVE N LEARN, bloody expensive lesson tho !

B16 Will

Why in gods name would anyone pay in full for a car they have never seen/driven and then just wait for it to turn up? Hes been well and truely had, and its his own stupid fault!! Id only be willing to do similar with a main dealer, and even then, only with a brand new car. What kind of money would he have handed over, circa 15k??

SelbyRST

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Feel sorry for the bloke, but how stupid can you get. I wouldnt even put a deposit down on a car with out going to see it, meeting the owner etc!!

topaz

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more like 25

fuzzy

is this a wind up? its got to be surely? 25K handed over just like that...?

carlo

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Feel sorry for him but these scams arent a new thing cant beleive he fell for it

topaz

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its a her...

Oranoco

Is this really, honestly NOT a wind up.

Unfortunately most scams are based around human greed. People get hooked as they think they are getting a bargain. As the old saying goes 'If it seems to good to be true, it probably is'.

Bloody expensive lesson to learn

cossie04

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Feel sorry for her but FFS, how thick can you get!

Chip

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Fucking amazes me how people so stupid end up with 10s of thousands to give away in the first place.

S1rst

Well now i can 'almost' understand why/how its happened......

But why didnt her boyfriend/husband/dad/someone with a bit of sense/ stop her from doing this!?!?!?!

I wouldnt even pay a main delaer in full without seeing and driving the car so why someone would even consider handing over Ł20k+ to a stranger is unreal, and actually quite worrying.

dovboy

couldn't agree more chip

B16 Will

Oh dear

JK99

She's generally pretty clued up when it comes to motors. She's had some decent motors when they were reasonably new so it's not the first time she would've spent ŁŁŁŁ's on a car. As said above, this car was advertised at circa Ł25k.

Her last car was a freshly imported EP3 Type R in Champ White iirc. That would've been bought without seeing it in the flesh possibly.

She also had a Mk4 R32 when they were fairly new so that would've cost a fair bit too.

Obviously it's very silly looking back at it but I'm sure there's been less elaborate scams that have caught people.

Personally, I'm the same as you guys. I'd never put ANY money down on a car without seeing it - even if that meant possibly losing the car.

RS Grant

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Damn shame... was talking to her a week ago and she was really excited about getting hold of the car too.


Cheers,
Grant

robocos

I sold a car through ebay for 11K without the buyer viewing it. I didn't even receive a phone call about it prior to auction completion.

I didn't scam him either!

Chopshop85

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no sympathy for her at all.
slingin 25k at someone who has shown you some pics of a car! you desevre to be scammed. I WISH it was that easy to make money!

god job theres some proper bottom feeders in the world to stop the rest of us getting screwed by curiosity

twoblacklines

people with lack of common sense to do such a thing dont really deserve nice cars!

Martin-Hadland

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Did the guy pay in full before collecting it??