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sgilmour

Member Since: 21 Jul 2015
Location: Essex
Posts: 232

TD5 Bargain or too good to be true...

Found this on Piston Heads this morning. Looks to be an absolute bargain if it is genuine. Thoughts...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...on/4600449

20th Aug 2015 10:33am

Martin
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Member Since: 02 Apr 2007
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 6482

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Surely a "1" missing in front of the price

1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top

2015 D90 XS SW

20th Aug 2015 10:49am

sgilmour

Member Since: 21 Jul 2015
Location: Essex
Posts: 232

I have come across one like this before on PistonHeads. Genuine CSW (same colour and almost price in fact) and the seller had just been divorced, needed surgery and the truck had to go to free up some quick cash. He had also moved from London to Plymouth since posting the ad (ad was 3 days old).

Was told he was working out on the oil rigs near Plymouth when I asked if I could view it and his friend would organise transporting the car to my address for me to view. Sounds great but the "catch" was that I'd have to put that money into a PayPal "holding account" which wouldn't get released until I said to PayPal that I wanted to keep the car.

Eventually got through to a PayPal person and not a machine and was told that they do not offer a service like that and any motor sold via PayPal is not covered under their payment protection.

May not be a scam and could quite possibly be the biggest bargain I'll ever see but I decided not to take the risk. Shame because it's a lovely looking truck

20th Aug 2015 10:56am

jonny2tanx

Member Since: 06 Jul 2014
Location: Harpenden, Herts
Posts: 156

2005 Defender 110 Td5 XS CSW Alveston Red

Looks like it was on Ebay and identified as a scam too. It was in the West Midlands then though, although the background is the same

http://busterjack.blogspot.com/2015/06/eba...scams.html

20th Aug 2015 11:17am

Disco_Mikey

Member Since: 16 Nov 2014
Location: Dundee
Posts: 531

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Keswick Green

You would pay more than that for one in need of a chassis

If it is too good to be true and all...

20th Aug 2015 11:20am

sgilmour

Member Since: 21 Jul 2015
Location: Essex
Posts: 232

Definitely leave this one alone then. Fingers crossed nobody falls into these

's trap

20th Aug 2015 11:26am

Orchard

Member Since: 07 May 2015
Location: Usually walking the dog
Posts: 258

Don't touch at all, this is a known scam method. Probably operating overseas somewhere. I nearly got pinged with a very similar story a few years ago selling a car.
You will not see the money again or a car - which probably doesn't exist anyway.

This happens with boat adds all the time, can't see the boat, working on an oil rig or overseas, not back for two weeks etc, send the money to a mate as it's a bargain plus shipping costs. Bye bye.

If it's good to be true - guess what

don't get caught

2015 90 XS SW Bowler
1998 TD5 CSW

20th Aug 2015 11:57am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 16879

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

PistonHeads has now pulled the ad as a scam.

20th Aug 2015 3:10pm

GREENI

Member Since: 22 Aug 2010
Location: staffs
Posts: 10360

I had a V6 Clio for sale and the advert got cloned, word for word, for a fraction of the price...same scam as this.

Chancers, though I'm sure they get away with it and make lots !

20th Aug 2015 3:22pm

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