Selling my car - Is this a scam?

jaydeeuk1

I'm quite intrigued to see what happens.

I'll offer odds too...

Scam 1/10
Not a scam 7/1

Scam was originally 1/1000, but odds lengthened slightly after OP confirmed cold hard cash was handed over.

oldtoolie

I sold a car via eBay to an African man. He came down to Portsmouth from London, looked at the car, paid £600 cash which I eyeballed. His eBay feedback to me was, "This is the most wonderful car ever, Thank you Thank you.

So take your customers where you find them, just make sure you still have all your fingers at the end of the deal.

cwoolhouse_2

Still none the wiser. No phone call from the guy. Bank re-confirmed it was £500 in cash paid over the counter and is sat in my account.

Utterly confused now.

crazyguy

He may come round and take the money back in kind, lol

cwoolhouse_2

He'll have to be bloody good at guessing where someone lives though.

Flyboy152

crazyguy wrote: »

He may come round and take the money back in kind, lol

What on Earth makes you think that?

davemorton

Flyboy152 wrote: »

What on Earth makes you think that?

I think it was meant as a joke.

Flyboy152

davemorton wrote: »

I think it was meant as a joke.

It's difficult to tell in this thread, seeing as there is so much rubbish being spouted. :cool:

gaz_jones

How rude is Vax!

For the record, I had a very similar thing happen to me when I sold my last car.

On the Sunday night I put my car, a BMW 318Ci, up for sale on Autotrader for £4800. The next morning I got a call from a Kenyan gentleman that was interested in the car. He asked me to take the advert down if he paypaled me over a £200 deposit. I received that no problems.

He was then due to come and collect the car later on in the week, although he didn't specifiy which day.

It got to Friday and I was begining to think he wasn't going to call. That afternoon he did call and arranged to meet me that evening. He turned up, had a cursory glance around the car then handed me the remaining £4600.

He came in for a coffee whilst we signed all the paperwork over and he said about how he was going to be importing it back to Kenya with him. He was saying how over here he could afford such a car, but back home in Kenya he'd have no chance of being able to afford one. He was a really nice chap and I still get emails from him every now and then asking how me and my girlfriend are etc...

It was the easiest car sale I've ever done. And he was one of the nicest gentleman I've ever met.

Let me guess Vax, I was lucky I didn't get scammed? It sounds identical to the OP's case so going by your logic it sounds like I'm lucky to still be alive!

gordon2

So OP did he come for the car?