Selling my car - Is this a scam?

albionrovers

Vax has blown his head gasket !

davemorton

Any updates???

cwoolhouse_2

Yep. Spoke to him last night. He wasn't able to get a day off work, so wants to pick the car up on Saturday. He's going to ring me back on Friday to arrange time.

davemorton

Good good, cheers for the update.

petermcuk

Just wondering if the preferred collection time will be outside the bank's Saturday opening hours...

davemorton

petermcuk wrote: »

Just wondering if the preferred collection time will be outside the bank's Saturday opening hours...

Yes, thats something worth considering.

2nd_Time_Lucky

gaz_jones wrote: »

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!

I had the same with a Mitsubishi- it sounded really dodgy but the cash swayed me, he collected it complete with his wife and MiL in tow :cool: and that was 4 years ago..had no problems and definately the easiest sale i'd made on a car as long as its real cash i cannot see what the issue is?

hcb42

get about five of these kinds of emails every day at work email account - all wanting to pay a deposit up front.....known quite a few in my industry who have actually fallen for them...

Keith

cwoolhouse wrote: »

Additional question about the V5. Assuming that this guy is legit, presumably I just complete the transfer of ownership in the normal way? I have no interest in getting involved in any export conversations etc, so it would be up to him to complete the permanent export section once he received his V5 wouldn't it?

No, you give him the V5c and send off the slip as detailed on the back of the V5c.

I phoned Swansea to check when I sold my motorbike and this is the correct way as he's not a keeper of the vehicle but an exporter.

cwoolhouse_2

He rang just now and is coming at 10am, so plenty of time to get to the bank.

Keith, do you mean that I fill in the 'Notification of Permanent Export' and give him the rest of the V5c? Will he still be OK to drive it in this country before he exports it (as I assume he's not going to do it instantly)?