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Shipping a Car to Australia
inspiremetosave
Posts: 160 Forumite
Hi,
I am selling a car on Ebay and have a buyer interested who is in Australia. He wants a friend to check over the car which we have agreed to and then if all is well he wants us to take it to a shipping company that 'he has used before' for delivery. We have already said that we will wait until payment clears before doing so. What can go wrong? How can we protect ourselves? The car is for 11k.
Thanks
I am selling a car on Ebay and have a buyer interested who is in Australia. He wants a friend to check over the car which we have agreed to and then if all is well he wants us to take it to a shipping company that 'he has used before' for delivery. We have already said that we will wait until payment clears before doing so. What can go wrong? How can we protect ourselves? The car is for 11k.
Thanks
Targets for 2014 :
OP mortgage £18000
Pay £4260 into ISA
OP mortgage £18000
Pay £4260 into ISA
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I am assuming your car is not one of a kind..
a rare collectable...
no other cars of this type exist....
that it does not have a royal/celebrity provenance?
In that case its a scam....
Please do not continue with this you will loose..The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary…
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Sounds very fishy to me. I would say no, you can't ship the car abroad.0
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it is a classic car, would be quite hard to get in australia i presume, can you tell me what kind of a scam - what would the buyer do? thanks for replyingTargets for 2014 :
OP mortgage £18000
Pay £4260 into ISA0 -
Make sure you're familiar with used car scams, and you can decide for yourself if this person is trying to take you for a ride.
http://www.buyyourcar.co.uk/car-buying-scams.aspx
http://www.usedcaradvisor.co.uk/avoid-used-car-buying-scams.html
The question does bear asking: why would someone in Oz want your car?My TV is broken!
Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j0 -
Probably not as hard as to get it back once its gone! :eek:inspiremetosave wrote: »it is a classic car, would be quite hard to get in australia i presume, can you tell me what kind of a scam - what would the buyer do? thanks for replying
How is the buyer intending to pay? Somehow I suspect it's not by his 'friend' delivering you the £11k in hard cash is it?
Why can't his 'friend' organise taking delivery and taking to whichever shipping company he wants to use?"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
Thank you for all your help and advice. We have advised the 'buyer' that we are not prepared to continue.Targets for 2014 :
OP mortgage £18000
Pay £4260 into ISA0
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