Am I missing something? Used Car low price.

mattmc

Hey all,

So me and my partner have been looking at buy an Audi A3. What we wanted was:
- under 60k miles
- 2013 reg or newer
- Black / White

Looking around at Autotrader and various local used car dealerships we were looking at paying between £8.5-11k. But I've come across this website that is selling for more like £6.5-7.5k, which is very different! But it seems the cars are the same just much much cheaper.

These cars are repossessed however they say in their FAQs that all the financing is paid on them. We're not sure what to make of it, is it a scam? Or am I missing something?

EDIT: REMOVED LINK AS PROBABLY SCAM SITE.
^ For some reason clicking the link doesn't work you have to copy paste it lol.

TadleyBaggie

Clicking on that link throws up scam warnings on my MacBook.

Mistral001

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Clicking on that link throws up scam warnings on my MacBook.

Ditto with Windows 10 PC. I have reported it to MSE.

AdrianC

If something's too good to be true...

OK, so ignoring the ludicrous pricing... The site claims to be this company...
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07237487/
...which files dormant accounts. They aren't trading (or they're lying about it).

On the "about us" page, they have an image of "their team", 40-odd people lined up. Large, for a dormant company. Then you do a reverse image search on it...
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/blrbi_02111524
(It's also used by a couple of other dealers, on very similar-looking pages...)
https://carsof-today.com/about - look familiar?
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05511659/filing-history - dissolved in 2016.

mattmc

Brilliant, thanks for the info. I will definitely be not buying from here!

I did reply to my partner after she linked it saying it was too good to be true as well.

Also, removed link from OP as probably scam.