Noticed quite a few of these scammers with no feedback selling ridiculously cheap cars and motor homes, photographed on different driveways. Also watch out for those who have feedback, but only as a buyer.
So many of these scams on eBay currently, almost So many of these scams on eBay motors currently. Ebay, if your listening, you need to act fast because if you don’t I suspect that few people will trust your motor sales ever again. It is so blindingly obvious when cars are offered for sale at half their market value but you need to step up and protect your customers from this nonsense. Act now!
Hi I’ve had experience with this dodgy dealer and, when they send you the confirmation email they expect you to transfer the funds and then you get rinsed, but you don’t find out until 10 days later when your vehicle doesn’t arrive, in my case it was a VW Transporter fortunately I asked a few more questions about the van before the transaction was completed and they didn’t respond therefore I didn’t transfer the money, as you say it was a deal that was just too good to be true, glad you can get the message out there and avoid people getting ripped off, Thanks!
Have noticed a large increase in Facebook and Ebay scams over the last few months I have even seen Ebay sellers with zero feedback using a reputable motor traders complete stock, ( with traders original photos) but at a far cheaper price than the main dealers site. The best thing i do is ask for a facetime or whatsapp video call to view the car , and get no response . (because they do not have the car to do the video call with ). so be very careful when buying
FB Marketplace is awash with these, reported over 100 in last few weeks, then went on again last night looks like its getting worse. One car listed with 5 sellers in Antrim NI and all over GB. All reported but never hear results.
Absolutely 100% a great video. So, I was looking on Facebay (don't judge me) for a Toyota Camry, wanted to see how much they go for. Loads around £18,000 - £22,000 and then I saw one £8,995 and then another around £9,999 and so on and so on. The scammers have literally used the SAME photo and registration as one from Auto Trader. I literally contacted Facebook and Auto Trader to report the scams. I doubt they did anything, in fact I know they didn't because the same car has appeared again and again. If this happens to a Toyota Camry (not popular) how many popular cars are scams? As you say Jim, too good to be true? It almost definitely is. Get it from a reputable garage and, oh I don't know, drive the damn thing before you buy it. 😁
Thanks for taking the time to highlight these scams, wish EBay would do more to clean up their act. I've sent you an EMail via your website with more details on what I've discovered about these crooks & their methods.
seen same myself BMW X3 £10k lower than similar cars, got same E mails , you pay we deliver, said I lived 2 miles from postcode, same transport mail again, called them out as scammers, no reply, the named persong was fotm Bulgaria so stayed away
I heard a story recently about a dealer who saw a motorhome he owned for sale on Facebook marketplace. He contacted the seller to confront him and his response was "I've taken 12 deposits on it already"!!!!
Also worth sellers having a look online at image usage, had some back and forth with a seller as the vehicle was on a modification site but listed as standard. The mod site had 'stolen' the image from a previous sale ad. and it was standard in the end.
I was looking to purchase a Porsche Cayenne in Feb this year and came across the same scam. The price was way too cheap for the car and it was delivered from Ireland once the full payment was cleared. Ran away from that one!
We had court papers for a local business who sold 2nd hand (many hand?) older model 4x4s, advertised online, these cars allegedly "didn't meet user expectations", hence the court paperwork. The seller apparently bought MOT failure and scraped 4x4s. Seller had a place of business so it was strange that the vehicles would be dropped of at random locations for purchaser, not even at the buyers home address!!!!
I have seen couple of ads in marketplace. When I enquired its the the same story. I tried to observe the trend . The user posting looks like Normal person with family pictures etc.. when I enquired one of the person about it. He said, some one told they can earn by posting ads on Facebook under their name. If sale happens then they will get 2-3% commission for it. Unless Facebook reigns on these people. There is no chance
You can imagine a car been.a few grand cheaper for a quick sale but.not under half its value. For this reason alone I would never ever buy a car from eBay I've heard too many bad experiences. At 53 including cars I've bought for myself and wife I've bought at least 30 every car unless it's come from a friend every car I've got through Autotrader. Use to love Thursdays getting the new weekly copy.
We're the same age mate and I agree that any car that is half its value isn't worth considering; prob a Cat S or scam. However, the last 2 cars I've bought have both been from private sellers on Ebay. After physically inspecting them, I did a car history check and both had no warnings. The 1st, a Mini Cooper S, I had for 4 years, sold it a month ago. The 2nd, an Audi TT, also seems pretty good. Not everyone is a crook, but the scammers give everyone else a bad rep.
Thanks Jim for highlighting this scam for us you really are the motorists friend would the car check company you use(v check?) Also be able to help with this type of scam? Thanks again
Yes that scam has been around for year's. Another when someone wants to buy your car send you payment up front always to much the want you to use the space money to pay for shipping. Lots versions all of which you end up with no money and sometimes no car.
It looks like 30% of cars advertised on UK Facebook Marketplace are scams. Sellers posting tens of dirt cheap cars in pristine condition... All they ask is to send the deposit to secure the car. You know rest of the story..
Many people sell MOT failure cars to people for cash, seller stupidly hands over V5 as buyer said they will scrap the vehicle but then the seller starts to get lots of parking and bus lane letters in the post as they're still the Registered Keeper. The new owner gets a car they can park anywhere as no fines will ever come back to them. DVLA don't want to know and reluctant to take vehicle out of Registered Keeper's name. Police often come calling as other dodgy stuff comes up regarding the vehicle especially if it's a van and the van is believed to be involved in crime
Looking for a car on e bay I found a cat s car at a good price and sent some questions; whilst waiting for a response I carried on searching and found another different model cat car at a good price but the settings for the images reminded me of the first one. The cars were listed by different sellers, one in the midlands the other in Yorkshire and yet they were both parked outside the same house in a country lane in identical settings. If I was the suspicious sort I might suspect that someone had used a traders earlier photos to perpetrate a scam. The guy did eventually respond with a curt reply to my questions but then the listing was pulled ( I suspect by e bay).
With the prices of used cars right now why would someone sell a car at a rock bottom price unless there is something not quite right? Let the buyer beware! and all that.
Just enquired about a car and the owner starts saying, I had to leave for Scotland and can have the car delivered to you...............................................................hhhhmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
On facebook i think they contact buyers and request deposits from them all and give a false address for collection then the poor person at that address gets bombarded by irrate customers demanding their car
I have no association with this company but out of interest I searched for "Sheetrim Transport Scam". Not all bad on the surface it would appear but who knows?
aswell as diffrent photos ie country lane drive ,I have seen some cars for sale with a cgi bavkground of a car park and fake aparememts from a few sellers no real background pics , sounds really stechy to me .
parkers valuation is between £13000 to £15000 so unless its a cat car it is a very good price, but having checked the DVLA website the last V5 was issued on 23 June 2023, has tax and MOT from early june and is showing as insured on MID. on the plus side the transport company seems legit, but who will deliver the car
Transport company has very dodgy reviews, price is ludicrous (as our their other cars), phone number is unanswered, reverse image searches show these cars listed elsewhere with bona fide dealers at proper prices, photos are all over the place. Take the risk if you fancy it but I certainly wouldn’t.
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Noticed quite a few of these scammers with no feedback selling ridiculously cheap cars and motor homes, photographed on different driveways. Also watch out for those who have feedback, but only as a buyer.
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So many of these scams on eBay currently, almost
So many of these scams on eBay motors currently. Ebay, if your listening, you need to act fast because if you don’t I suspect that few people will trust your motor sales ever again. It is so blindingly obvious when cars are offered for sale at half their market value but you need to step up and protect your customers from this nonsense. Act now!
Well done Steve, and considerate of you to warn others 👍👏
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Nice one Jim I go on the pretence of if the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Well summed up. You don’t get a £19-21k car for £9k
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Spot on! So many ways to part people with their hard earned using technology.
Even when selling a car it’s a minefield.
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yes, many people sell MOT failure cars to people for cash and had over the V5 for buyer to fill out....... :-(
Hi I’ve had experience with this dodgy dealer and, when they send you the confirmation email they expect you to transfer the funds and then you get rinsed, but you don’t find out until 10 days later when your vehicle doesn’t arrive, in my case it was a VW Transporter fortunately I asked a few more questions about the van before the transaction was completed and they didn’t respond therefore I didn’t transfer the money, as you say it was a deal that was just too good to be true, glad you can get the message out there and avoid people getting ripped off, Thanks!
Thanks for sharing
Jim, well done for highlighting the scam artists..👍
Thanks
Very similar scam doing the rounds on Facebook. I messaged a seller about a van I was interested in & received the same scenario. I'm not that daft 😉
Yes, Gumtree too. Utter scum. An old guy contacted me that actually fell for one of these and lost £7k.
Have noticed a large increase in Facebook and Ebay scams over the last few months I have even seen Ebay sellers with zero feedback using a reputable motor traders complete stock, ( with traders original photos) but at a far cheaper price than the main dealers site.
The best thing i do is ask for a facetime or whatsapp video call to view the car , and get no response . (because they do not have the car to do the video call with ). so be very careful when buying
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ALSO why the fcuk was this recently sold for 20k. Crazy. 9k might be cheap but DAMN 20k really
Yep
These same guys tried this with my wife and we turned them down. We smelt a rat very quickly.
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FB Marketplace is awash with these, reported over 100 in last few weeks, then went on again last night looks like its getting worse.
One car listed with 5 sellers in Antrim NI and all over GB.
All reported but never hear results.
Awful mate
thanks for the info Jim spotted the different locations didn't know the other stuff and thanks Ste as well .
No problem 👍
Absolutely 100% a great video. So, I was looking on Facebay (don't judge me) for a Toyota Camry, wanted to see how much they go for. Loads around £18,000 - £22,000 and then I saw one £8,995 and then another around £9,999 and so on and so on. The scammers have literally used the SAME photo and registration as one from Auto Trader. I literally contacted Facebook and Auto Trader to report the scams. I doubt they did anything, in fact I know they didn't because the same car has appeared again and again. If this happens to a Toyota Camry (not popular) how many popular cars are scams? As you say Jim, too good to be true? It almost definitely is. Get it from a reputable garage and, oh I don't know, drive the damn thing before you buy it. 😁
It seems that those collecting revenue from the classified ads seem the least likely to do anything about it. Shockingly bad show from them.
Thanks for taking the time to highlight these scams, wish EBay would do more to clean up their act. I've sent you an EMail via your website with more details on what I've discovered about these crooks & their methods.
I will check it out
eBay is full of scammers at the moment and Facebook and even Auto Trader, it’s getting a big problem.
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seen same myself BMW X3 £10k lower than similar cars, got same E mails , you pay we deliver, said I lived 2 miles from postcode, same transport mail again, called them out as scammers, no reply, the named persong was fotm Bulgaria so stayed away
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I heard a story recently about a dealer who saw a motorhome he owned for sale on Facebook marketplace. He contacted the seller to confront him and his response was "I've taken 12 deposits on it already"!!!!
What a scumbag
Also worth sellers having a look online at image usage, had some back and forth with a seller as the vehicle was on a modification site but listed as standard. The mod site had 'stolen' the image from a previous sale ad. and it was standard in the end.
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I was looking to purchase a Porsche Cayenne in Feb this year and came across the same scam. The price was way too cheap for the car and it was delivered from Ireland once the full payment was cleared. Ran away from that one!
Well done; I’ve seen loads of these but lucky to have a viewer send me so much detail for this one so I could share it.
We had court papers for a local business who sold 2nd hand (many hand?) older model 4x4s, advertised online, these cars allegedly "didn't meet user expectations", hence the court paperwork. The seller apparently bought MOT failure and scraped 4x4s. Seller had a place of business so it was strange that the vehicles would be dropped of at random locations for purchaser, not even at the buyers home address!!!!
Very dodgy!
I have seen couple of ads in marketplace. When I enquired its the the same story. I tried to observe the trend . The user posting looks like Normal person with family pictures etc.. when I enquired one of the person about it. He said, some one told they can earn by posting ads on Facebook under their name. If sale happens then they will get 2-3% commission for it. Unless Facebook reigns on these people. There is no chance
100%, what kind of a-hole does that for commission too by the way…
Great vid we need to get this game stopped
👍 all it needs is eBay to act instead of blindly taking the ad revenue.
You can imagine a car been.a few grand cheaper for a quick sale but.not under half its value. For this reason alone I would never ever buy a car from eBay I've heard too many bad experiences. At 53 including cars I've bought for myself and wife I've bought at least 30 every car unless it's come from a friend every car I've got through Autotrader. Use to love Thursdays getting the new weekly copy.
We're the same age mate and I agree that any car that is half its value isn't worth considering; prob a Cat S or scam.
However, the last 2 cars I've bought have both been from private sellers on Ebay. After physically inspecting them, I did a car history check and both had no warnings. The 1st, a Mini Cooper S, I had for 4 years, sold it a month ago. The 2nd, an Audi TT, also seems pretty good.
Not everyone is a crook, but the scammers give everyone else a bad rep.
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Thanks Jim for highlighting this scam for us you really are the motorists friend would the car check company you use(v check?) Also be able to help with this type of scam? Thanks again
They can’t really, you can check the history of the car but not details of the owner etc due to data protections laws.
Yes that scam has been around for year's. Another when someone wants to buy your car send you payment up front always to much the want you to use the space money to pay for shipping. Lots versions all of which you end up with no money and sometimes no car.
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If it looks too good to be true its 99% sure not to be true
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It looks like 30% of cars advertised on UK Facebook Marketplace are scams. Sellers posting tens of dirt cheap cars in pristine condition... All they ask is to send the deposit to secure the car. You know rest of the story..
That’s probably an underestimate- sad isn’t it.
Many people sell MOT failure cars to people for cash, seller stupidly hands over V5 as buyer said they will scrap the vehicle but then the seller starts to get lots of parking and bus lane letters in the post as they're still the Registered Keeper. The new owner gets a car they can park anywhere as no fines will ever come back to them. DVLA don't want to know and reluctant to take vehicle out of Registered Keeper's name. Police often come calling as other dodgy stuff comes up regarding the vehicle especially if it's a van and the van is believed to be involved in crime
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We are in a terrible position now, you cannot trust anyone.
You can trust me Baz 👍
Well Done Jim 👍
Thanks 🙏
Looking for a car on e bay I found a cat s car at a good price and sent some questions; whilst waiting for a response I carried on searching and found another different model cat car at a good price but the settings for the images reminded me of the first one. The cars were listed by different sellers, one in the midlands the other in Yorkshire and yet they were both parked outside the same house in a country lane in identical settings. If I was the suspicious sort I might suspect that someone had used a traders earlier photos to perpetrate a scam. The guy did eventually respond with a curt reply to my questions but then the listing was pulled ( I suspect by e bay).
It’s rife I’m afraid mate. I had a quick look yesterday and found plenty of other suspicious cars on eBay in less than 15 mins.
I see these Adds all the time. I always report them as a scam...
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Some real business are getting cars on eBay and when you phone them up they have no idea how or who listed the car and they don’t have it.
Yep, it’s shocking mate
Thank you very much. Most useful video!
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With the prices of used cars right now why would someone sell a car at a rock bottom price unless there is something not quite right? Let the buyer beware! and all that.
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Just enquired about a car and the owner starts saying, I had to leave for Scotland and can have the car delivered to you...............................................................hhhhmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
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On facebook i think they contact buyers and request deposits from them all and give a false address for collection then the poor person at that address gets bombarded by irrate customers demanding their car
Yes
So what happens if you try and buy a car from them. You just send the money and get nothing?
Yup
i nearly bought this car from them
Oh no!
I have no association with this company but out of interest I searched for "Sheetrim Transport Scam". Not all bad on the surface it would appear but who knows?
Who’s to say they even know anything about this ad? A few of the reviews seem a bit sus.
You can't say he's doing something fraudulent, I'm going to say it, Dodgy AF. Report to eBay
👍it's been reported, he's paying them for classifieds ads...nuff said I guess.
Great advice Jim
Thank you 🙏
Auto Trader too Iv nearly been scammed a few times.
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👍👍👍.Thank you Jim
Very welcome 🙏
aswell as diffrent photos ie country lane drive ,I have seen some cars for sale with a cgi bavkground of a car park and fake aparememts from a few sellers no real background pics , sounds really stechy to me .
Yes, lots of those around
Gud lad. Keep up the good work 😎👍
Much appreciated
Exactly the same on Facebook market place.
Yep
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Old adage: if it seems too good to be true probably isn't true
Yep
E,bay do not seem to care. They are getting the advertising money.
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parkers valuation is between £13000 to £15000 so unless its a cat car it is a very good price, but having checked the DVLA website the last V5 was issued on 23 June 2023, has tax and MOT from early june and is showing as insured on MID. on the plus side the transport company seems legit, but who will deliver the car
Transport company has very dodgy reviews, price is ludicrous (as our their other cars), phone number is unanswered, reverse image searches show these cars listed elsewhere with bona fide dealers at proper prices, photos are all over the place. Take the risk if you fancy it but I certainly wouldn’t.
Same scam all over FB Marketplace.
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Nobody knows if the mileage is right
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Just makes you want to give up don’t it ?
Always room for the good guys like you Mark 👍
@@DefinitelyNotAGuru cheers Jim - ditto
I think i need to review what I am doing, need to find something different to all the rest out there
A load of nonsense from the "Seller" he was in the process ..........
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They are using AI background now you can hardly tell.
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Good one jim .many thanks ❤
Thanks mate
If it looks too good a deal, then it's probably not!
Exactly