Great used cars Ltd

lostelephant

It is a scam. The photos are stolen from sites such as Cargiant, I've put an example below of a Hyundai Tuscon for £12,799 on Cargiant being advertised as £7,700 on Great Used Cars.

Cargiant -  https://www.cargiant.co.uk/car/hyundai/tucson/WN65KYX


Great Used Cars Ltd - https://used-cars-great.com/vehicle/2015-hyundai-tucson-20-crdi-se-5-door_UCS6127


After a bit of digging it seems that these sites have been going on for over a decade, each time they have bad reviews or the host takes the website down, they just reopen with a different name. If you search parts of the website (e.g. the vehicle code) it will likely bring up other sites they've been scamming under.


I've put together a list below of all the one's I've been able to find, most have been closed down but if you search the names with quotation marks around it in Google you should be able to see the scam warnings, and sadly people saying they have lost 000's.

a5carsireland.com
aam-cars-public.com
approved-used-cars.com
auto-mall-inc.com
autoparks.co.uk
autousedcar.co.uk
bestautodeals.co.uk
car-unlimited.com
cars-for-ultd.com
cars-salesLTD.com
cars-direct-inc.com
carsof-today.com
great-cars-used.com
great-used-cars.com
ioofmausedcar.com
iomusedcars.com
kikimotorsinc.com
limitedcars-sales-direct.com
limitedcarssl.com
matthews-motor.com
new-used-cars-ltd.com
newusedcarltd.com
private-used-car.com
privatebestcars4you.com
stars-automart.com
top-vehicles.com (active)
tractors-and-diggers.com (active)
ukrepossessedvehicles.com
ukusedcarsltd.com
unlimited-carsltd.com
used-cars-great.com (active)
used-carslancs.co.uk

Here are some reviews for the other domains -
https://scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=385091
https://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13849
https://www.facebook.com/oneeyed.jack.1291/posts/scam-elite-cars-unlimited-fraudhttpsunlimited-carsltdcom-1287-non-existent-vehic/2335625366686335/
https://www.facebook.com/oneeyed.jack.1291/posts/scam-approved-used-cars-limited-fraudhttpsapproved-used-carscomwwwapproved-used-/2349687155280156/
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/autoparks.co.uk
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4158135/buying-a-repossessed-car/p1
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/newusedcarltd.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/car-unlimited.com

noclaf

This thread perfectly illustrates why I will only buy from main/franchised dealers and car supermarkets or genuine private sellers for bangers/cheap cars. They aren't perfect or 100% foolproof...nothing ever is and you still have to do your due diligence but so many cowboys operating as 'car dealers' or claiming to be private sellers when they clearly aren't. Be careful people! If it's too good to be true...it probably is!

AdrianC

noclaf said:

This thread perfectly illustrates why I will only buy from main/franchised dealers and car supermarkets or genuine private sellers for bangers/cheap cars. They aren't perfect or 100% foolproof...nothing ever is and you still have to do your due diligence but so many cowboys operating as 'car dealers' or claiming to be private sellers when they clearly aren't. Be careful people! If it's too good to be true...it probably is!

The only way you're going to be scammed by these "virtual operations" is if you're daft enough to buy the car sight-unseen. It obviously has to be unseen, since they simply don't have the car... And why would anybody even contemplate doing that? Simples. Because it's far cheaper than it should be, and because they think they're getting one over a daft seller...

Basic psychology, and SO easy to avoid.

It's not the first time these outfits have been discussed and debunked here.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6043621/is-this-used-car-company-legit-or-too-good-to-be-true/p1
And on page 3, "PrivateBestCars4U.com" gets defended by one of the pop-up astroturfers - and that's a name in the list that @lostelephant posted just up a few posts in this thread.

And, yup, that same nicked image of the sales team is on the GUC site's "about" page. They can't even be bothered to put any effort into their scam, even when they know they've been rumbled... It's barely a step up from a 419 scam.