buying a car online

Ebe_Scrooge

Out of curiosity, I've just had a look at that site.  The home page by itself is enough to put me off straight away - underneath each car is a button called "Inquire us".  And a cursory scan of the FAQ pages shows a mastery of grammar that would shame a primary school child.  I reckon Biggus_Dickus has hit the nail on the head with his assessment :-)

AdrianC

Mutton_Geoff said:

billfinger said:

a person called holie

Are you sure it wasn't Holie Molie?

Was the car cheaper than anything else you've seen?

Looking at their site, their cars are FAR cheaper than you'd expect. That alone should ring alarm bells.

Stubod

There is a barge pole floating around this site somewhere, I would ask whoever has got it at the moment if you could borrow it....

billfinger

Too cheap, half price even, someone might even fall for it 

macman

Ebe_Scrooge said:

Out of curiosity, I've just had a look at that site.  The home page by itself is enough to put me off straight away - underneath each car is a button called "Inquire us".  And a cursory scan of the FAQ pages shows a mastery of grammar that would shame a primary school child.  I reckon Biggus_Dickus has hit the nail on the head with his assessment :-)

Sadly, that's a feature of a great many legit sites too. I think we need a UK Digital Grammar Tsar . Lynne Truss?

Biggus_Dickus

billfinger said:

Too cheap, half price even, someone might even fall for it 

What a Doubting Thomas you are!

I’m about to make a purchase;...I was a little concerned at first but this has definitely put my mind at rest:

                                                                                                                         

 

parking_question_chap

There is a 2018 BMW i8 on there for £38k which is about £20k less that it should be. Do people really fall for scams like this?

facade

parking_question_chap said:

There is a 2018 BMW i8 on there for £38k which is about £20k less that it should be. Do people really fall for scams like this?

All the time. I did wonder why they don't price them better, 90% of retail maybe, so they don't stand out as an obvious scam, but the business model is to offer a "too good to be true" price so that people will fall over each other to snap up the "bargain" before someone else does.

AdrianC

facade said:

parking_question_chap said:

There is a 2018 BMW i8 on there for £38k which is about £20k less that it should be. Do people really fall for scams like this?

All the time. I did wonder why they don't price them better, 90% of retail maybe, so they don't stand out as an obvious scam, but the business model is to offer a "too good to be true" price so that people will fall over each other to snap up the "bargain" before someone else does.

Indeed. It's the same logic as the bad spelling in 419 emails etc. It weeds out all those who are likely to sniff something wrong, so prevents the scammers wasting their time on any but the greedy and gullible.

Biggus_Dickus

parking_question_chap said:

There is a 2018 BMW i8 on there for £38k which is about £20k less that it should be. Do people really fall for scams like this?

Would anyone be taken in by an unsophisticated and obvious scam website such as the one being discussed on this thread?...who knows.

But sadly some people do get taken in by ‘used car’ scammers.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8663493/Dont-let-car-sale-scammers-drive-cash.html