So I put my car on various websites and people from overseas keep emailing me about it. The want to buy the car and pay for the shipment. It's weird just because the are overseas. One guy said he will send me 7000 USD, if I deduct the final price and then use the rest for the shipment cost to his private shipper. i don' t know whether to trust them. Or should I just let them send me the money and not ship the car. What? They are overseas, who cares.
Thanks for your help.
2007-09-24 05:19:02 · 9 answers · asked by armyff 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Buying & Selling
It sounds to me as though the overseas buyer who offered to send you $7000 is a scam artist, and I would not trust him. This is actually a very common scam in which an oversaes buyer will send a money order for more than the value of the item being purchased, and ask that you either refund him the difference or pay the diffefence to a third party. The money order later turns out to be a forgery, and your bank will force you to pay them back for the full amount of the money order. You are then out both the car and your money. Since the scam artist is overseas, you would probably have no recourse. I would use extreme caution when dealing with any overseas buyers. You are probably better off selling to a local buyer for cash. I do not recommend accepting money from an overseas buyer and not shipping the car, since that would make you just as guilty of fraud as an overseas scam artist.
2007-09-24 05:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by mike k 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam. They will send you the "money" which will be a counterfeit bank check or money order. The private shipper is most likely be someone in the United States who will take the car to ship it but it truth they are not shipping the car anywhere and you are stuck with a bogus check and no car. This is a very common scam on EBay. I always put that I only accept Postal Money orders because they are harder to forge. I also say i am going to check funds on a bank check as well. Also if you check the funds on a bank check don't call the number on the check look the number for the bank up yourself. These are steps you should take so you don't get conned. Also if it sounds too good to be true it most likely is.
2007-09-24 05:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by walkerhound03 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
READ EVERY post on here, this is a scam, do not respond to responses like this other than to report them to the respective places your ads are on. I listed a car on a well known site once, and i got a response almost instantly, it asked a couple generic questions(most of which were answered in the ad already. I responded and moments later a response like you described came back offering to send a check way more than the price of the car. Just so you know, stuff like that doesn't happen in real life.
2007-09-24 05:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by kiakrash 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John, you are being scammed from thieves. They'll send you a bogus check, you'll ship them the car and in a month you'll get a notice from the bank that the check is no good and your car will be long gone.
Anyone offering overseas money is a thief.
2007-09-24 09:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by mccoyblues 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the two way $1000 for an undertaking-free oil pump substitute is insane. The section is approximately $one hundred and with a chum one would desire to alter it out in a nil.5 day in the storage. Its an undertaking-free remember of draining the oil, dropping the oil pan, swapping the pump, setting up a sparkling pan gasket and reinstalling the pan then refilling the oil. If the pump is extremely vulnerable, and your lifters are ticking a sparkling pump offering greater tension would help with that undertaking. yet truthfully, the engine is drained and probable needs a minimum of a acceptable end rebuild by using fact the lifters are actually not staying pumped up after the engine is close down.
2016-12-17 09:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Overseas selling and shipping can be a problem, unless you are useing E-bay / paypal, I would wait for a local buyer.
2007-09-24 05:40:39 · answer #6 · answered by "Mario" 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baby doll I will bet you a dime to a donut that 100% of those offers are scam. They will wind up bilking you out of not only their money but your money too...
Why don't you advertise your car in local free want ads? Every community has them...
2007-09-24 05:26:16 · answer #7 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a total scam. Don't do it. Go to www.craigslist.org and click on "avoid scams and fraud" to read about it.
2007-09-24 05:28:35 · answer #8 · answered by L. T. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dont do anything, wait for an american buyer to pay for it.
2007-09-24 05:25:38 · answer #9 · answered by darrin b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋