car sale scam? - seems odd

iluvmylexus

very common at the moment for irish to buy cars over here dont be too concerned

waster_2

If you trawl back through the past 3 or 4 months threads there is one where someone was in exactly the same position as you are.

From memory it all went OK. And as posted by others this is now common for the Irish to come and buy their second hand motors on the “mainland” due to pricing differntials.

Only concern would be as with any cash sale that the notes are kosher. Do the deal Saturday morning and then go with him to a bank. Get him to change the notes at the bank and then take the notes that he receives from the bank as payment, not his original notes. It may cost a transaction fee but I'd rather pay say a fiver and be safe than sorry. In any case try and get him to apy any fee first and if not pay 50/50. Should be no problem if he's genuine.

aurora_borealis_2

... I wish I'd been more accommodating now

Haven't heard from him again, as yet.

merlinormartin

the most likely "scam" would be ... half of the notes real half counterfeit ... after he has viewed the car .. arrange to ... exchange the money/keys at the local bank or borrow a uv light and check each note ..

DKLS

Dont worry to much, Once helped a mate deliver a posh caravan, to an address which was a Layby off the A1 near Newark, Was met and invited into another van, where my mate asked for the money, and a guy came in with a bin liner full of 50 pound notes. At this point I was bricking it, Thinking my corpse would be found in a ditch. But the "!!!!!!" were a pleasure, gave us Tea and cake as we counted 24K in real notes. With the guy muttering about Evil Banks.
I was given some great boxing videos, Not the Mike Tyson stuff.
Whole thing was quite an experience, but I must confess, that I thought we would be robbed on the way back up the A1, hence we headed for the first bank we could find, fear and paranoia is a funny thing, and unjustified in my case.

aurora_borealis_2

Well he rang again.

He says flight tickets are mad because of the football final and he'll be here next week instead.

I have also listed it on Ebay (free listings this weekend )

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david29dpo

This happened to me about two years ago. At the station (where i met him) he looked round the car and complained it was not as described on the phone. He got nasty and said he would sue for his traveling costs. Having two big irish men going mad was not pleasant. I was hounded with Emails and phone calls for 3 months before the police got involved. Never again.

darich

Andy_L wrote: »

N. Ireland uses sterling, their own notes though, so it's the same deal as scotish banknotes: you don't have to accept them.

The republic uses euros but you've advertised the car as £x so you can tell him to poke off & come back with sterling

Why wouldn't you accept sterling since it's your currency?
Is English sterling better than Scottish or Irish Sterling?
Poke off and come back with Sterling? but NI is sterling and you advise to reject it????

Makes no sense.

d1sco_queen

My aunt and uncle flew over here to buy a Range Rover as all 4x4 are dear in ireland apparently? When they took it back they had to pay a massive tax on it anyway so kind of defeated the object. Although they did save still! I guess its more common there to go far for your car?

Scary comment from above though!!