too good too be true ??

Mercdriver

Why put full stops in between every word?

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Arklight

Mercdriver wrote: »

Why put full stops in between every word?

after all:

You can use Bold;

Bold Italic;

Bold Italic Undderline

Change the colour

to make emphasis on what you say.

I am not taking grammar advice from someone who in the past has freely admitted to being an amber gambler.

Philjoe0195

Glad I saw this same person selling a caravan exactly the same text word for word on ebay

ronniemc

I have just become another victim of this scammer and being refused any help off ebay ,paypal my bank, his bank ,action for fraud ,and Merseyside police id like to ask can anybody who has been a victim of this man please get in touch with me I am trying to compile a list of his victims because 5 days after he cleaned me out he put the same vehicle up for sale again ,to other victims if you get in touch I feel we could all help each other get our moneys back I will share any information ive compiled with you, thankyou for reading this

ronniemc

that's easy to say but to us older people who are not computer savvy its very easy to be confused by it all ,as far as I was concerned I was covered by ebay and palpal and didn't know that ebay and paypal invoices etc can easily be forged ,and if ebay and paypal are being used to con people then why are they not putting warning out, each time someone is scammed the first thing they would do is contact ebay /paypal so if the same scammer is using ebay/paypal as regular as this scumbag then both ebay and paypal,s fraud teams should be aware of him and should have taken some sort of action but instead they quickly check that the victim has got something wrong so they just drop you like a lead brick likewise his bank who are processing our moneys into his account they must know ,you may think its my own fault and that I must be stupid but as smart as you think you are in being able to spot a fraud like this I wonder if your granddad or grandmother was scammed then youd probally think arh the poor old things haven't got a clue with the computer technology

bertiewhite

I still can't see how anybody, old or young would be happy to hand over 000's to someone they haven't met for something they haven't seen in the metal.

In the good old days, would you phone up a classified paper ad and do the same?

suki1964

bertiewhite wrote: »

I still can't see how anybody, old or young would be happy to hand over 000's to someone they haven't met for something they haven't seen in the metal.

In the good old days, would you phone up a classified paper ad and do the same?

Ive said it before in this thread, and Ill say again, we buy cars we have never seen and we have not been bitten yet

Latest is a 19 year old Audi Quattro TT, left in a field for years, the moss on the car was actually growing lol.We paid 500, have spent £350 and we will no doubt get at least £3k when we sell her on

But then we do know what we are doing

DUTR

ronniemc wrote: »

that's easy to say but to us older people who are not computer savvy its very easy to be confused by it all ,as far as I was concerned I was covered by ebay and palpal and didn't know that ebay and paypal invoices etc can easily be forged ,and if ebay and paypal are being used to con people then why are they not putting warning out, each time someone is scammed the first thing they would do is contact ebay /paypal so if the same scammer is using ebay/paypal as regular as this scumbag then both ebay and paypal,s fraud teams should be aware of him and should have taken some sort of action but instead they quickly check that the victim has got something wrong so they just drop you like a lead brick likewise his bank who are processing our moneys into his account they must know ,you may think its my own fault and that I must be stupid but as smart as you think you are in being able to spot a fraud like this I wonder if your granddad or grandmother was scammed then youd probally think arh the poor old things haven't got a clue with the computer technology

With age comes wisdom, your post doesn't sound like coming from someone who has plenty life experience.

Mercdriver

ronniemc wrote: »

that's easy to say but to us older people who are not computer savvy its very easy to be confused by it all ,as far as I was concerned I was covered by ebay and palpal and didn't know that ebay and paypal invoices etc can easily be forged ,and if ebay and paypal are being used to con people then why are they not putting warning out, each time someone is scammed the first thing they would do is contact ebay /paypal so if the same scammer is using ebay/paypal as regular as this scumbag then both ebay and paypal,s fraud teams should be aware of him and should have taken some sort of action but instead they quickly check that the victim has got something wrong so they just drop you like a lead brick likewise his bank who are processing our moneys into his account they must know ,you may think its my own fault and that I must be stupid but as smart as you think you are in being able to spot a fraud like this I wonder if your granddad or grandmother was scammed then youd probally think arh the poor old things haven't got a clue with the computer technology

Did you do your research to find out whether the price was a realistic one, or did you go ahead because it seemed like a good deal?

The phrase "If it seems too good to be true..." has been widely used on BBC's Watchdog and other consumer programmes. You have to do due diligence. It's not got a lot to do with being computer savvy. If something is much cheaper than other equivalents then you should be asking questions why.

The fear comes when the scammers charge similar prices to genuine sales and take even more people to the cleaners.

Could Ebay etc do more? Sure they could. But you have a responsibility to yourself to check and double check. David Rose is seemingly clever. Get his name around facebook on your friends list and get them to do the same. Share the way he works too, as I doubt that is his real name and he likely has many aliases.

bertiewhite

suki1964 wrote: »

Ive said it before in this thread, and Ill say again, we buy cars we have never seen and we have not been bitten yet

Latest is a 19 year old Audi Quattro TT, left in a field for years, the moss on the car was actually growing lol.We paid 500, have spent £350 and we will no doubt get at least £3k when we sell her on

But then we do know what we are doing

I mentioned thousands - you're talking about hundreds