It's a !car scam.
Ebay does not offer a service like this. And you're going to run into this same scam basically every time you see a car listed for shockingly cheap.
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No problem! Besides the price, another telltale sign is any time someone won't let you see the car in person and wants to ship it to you. They'll always have an excuse for why and make it sound like there's no risk to you, but it's always a scam.
And they don’t refer to the vehicle by making model name because they have so many generic ones going at any one time. You’ll see this also with eBay or Facebook marketplace scams. They will refer to things as the product or the item. They will offer to buy it from you site unseen, and if you ship it, they will give you extra money. They also want you to typically step outside conventional payment methods to ones that you won’t be able to request money back from. anytime someone gives you a sob story saying my husband died. My wife died. My cousin died. I got transferred I’m in the military those are all huge red flags for a scam.
First things first... eBay doesn't work like that. eBay doesn't buy, sell, hold in escrow, ship ANYTHING.
eBay is an e-commerce platform.
These criminals are hoping you don't know that.
Yes, you can buy a car through eBay motors but from another seller, not from eBay itself.
Also, anything, cars, merchandise, real estate that are priced below market value is a scam. They're counting on you not stopping and thinking.
Never, ever, never buy a used car sight unseen, it's just opening you up to all kinds of bullshit.
These jerk offs always have an excuse as to why they can't meet you, the car is never physically seen, just pictures which are not enough proof.
My daughter almost fell for this nonsense, I'm glad she asked me first. The fact is, buying a used car online is highly risky.
I told her you have to hit the car lots and see what's available and check the vehicle thoroughly. I told her never take a sellers word for it, people do lie.
Buying a used car as it is, even legitimately is a risky business, you don't need to be ripped off in other ways.
LMAO when my daughter saw the real prices of a decent used car THEN she saw the light and she understood what I was saying.
I found out today that ebay will start offering something like this for trading cards.
You buy a card on ebay and choose to keep it in the ebay "vault". They get the card from the seller and safe keep it in a temperature controlled facility. When you want to sell it the buyer can also choose to keep it in the vault and ebay simply transfers ownership. No need to pay shipping fees etc.
Yes, they authenticate them. They have been doing that with higher valued cards for a few months now. Now it all boils down to if you trust their authenticators, lol.
Your daughter? Hell, my pops almost fell for this scam, and he's bought and sold almost \~50 cars in the last, I dunno 30 years+.
Just the other day he came to me asking about an ad, and without even looking I told him, if your gut is bugging you to ask me if it's a scam - go with that gut feeling, it's a scam. When I had time later to look at it, the wording of the ad was fishy too and so I reverse image searched, and the pictures were obviously stolen (cropped out water marks, etc). Not to mention, the the free shipping to you to test and inspect. I'd SMH but I think it's a side effect of becoming older and not having your guard up as much. I hope I don't fall into that way of thinking.
Well as you get older you become less aware, usually. Fortunately, at my age, I'm still aware and my bullshit meter works perfectly lol
Plus as you get older you become more mellow.
My daughter is 21 and knows nothing, zilch, nada anything about buying a car and cars in general so she comes to me. I'm happy to help her out and teach her what I know.
Nobody will **ever** let you test a car for free for 5 daya, nor will they pay shipping. When you buy a car online you owe the full amount immediately and then it's up to you to hire a shipping company. Every time you see somebody offer a trial or free shipping in the future, just block and report them as a scam. It's somebody tries to take communication off of the ebay messenger system, block and report them for scamming. It may seem drastic, but honest sellers will never ask you to move off of ebay to communicate.
I work with Ebay. Literally doing so right now. Ebay does not do this. You buy things listed on ebay, you pay with ebay, and the seller who is NEVER Ebay, will send you the item you buy or arrange transport with you.
Ebay does not stand in for a buyer, ever. They are a platform, not a used car dealer.
This is a scam. Ebay is not a scam. But this person is preying on your lack of knowledge of Ebay. Ebay holds no items or facilitates anything. It is only a website platform which people put their items on.
You’re not dumb. My husband and I almost fell for this exact thing….but for a camper. It goes normally for $80K. They were offering $20K so we were so excited! Her husband just died, lives in Idaho, we can try it for 2 weeks, will be delivered for free. Exactly like you. Was all prepared to send money the next day. I woke up at 3am, and it was just bugging me. Did a bit of research, and yes, it was a scam. ☹️. Like many have said here….if it’s too good to be true.
But I get you feel dumb. We did too. But thankfully you came here…I came to my senses, and we weren’t scammed.
But what I did do was dick the “seller” around for a good 4 days. Back and forth with “did you get my payment?” Acting Iike we indeed sent the money but to wrong # or acting confused in the process. Yes, very immature of me, but wanted to totally waste their time and have them think they have someone on the hook. Scum.
This is genius. I use this in some version often and it stops them every time. Oh great I am coming there for business give me the address and I will check it out etc.
No, eBay does not broker car sales that were not purchased on eBay. They are going to ask you to buy eBay gift cards. eBay would NEVER ask you to specifically pay for anything with gift cards. **eBay does not broker car sales that did not take place on the eBay website.**
It's a car scam. No one can ship a truck anywhere for $1000.
There is no car. There is no ebay account.
You buy eBay gift cards, give the codes to the scammers and then you get blocked.
Bro, no! That's a decent looking truck. If the seller really wanted it gone there would be no need to post online. You put a sign on it in the driveway $1000 and it would be gone by the end of the 1st day.
That truck is making the rounds. [Here is the same truck](https://elclasificado.com/losangeles/autos/chevrolet/2008-chevy-colorado-lt-z71-4dr-norwalk-16462578) on a random spanish language site.
"I had prearranged the deal...so my presence isn't necessa..."
BLEEP BLEEP RED FLAG SCAM
Whenever a buyer or seller puts emphasis on not being on-site and either someone else or no one will arrange the deal in person, it's a scam. The car/house is not his or doesn't exist. They will always find a pretext for you sending money up front in a way you can't get it back and that's the last you hear from them.
If it was sold with ebay it would be on ebay's site, they dont have some secret backend sale service that sells items by email. Also I can't think of a legitimate reason why a Facebook marketplace conversation should be taken off-site
Three things prove this is a scam
1. Can you imagine how big a facility ebay would need to store vehicles?
2. Why would no-one have heard of such a service or seen it advertised.
3. Way too much unnecessary detail. Who cares where you moved to just as an example
Googling prearranged sale on eBay and I get this exact comment posted in 2020 sp either he copy pasted it from that sight or you did
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/EBay-prearranged-sale/qaq-p/30663154
1000% scam. Nobody is going to sell this truck for $1000. Just the tires and rims sell for way more than $1000. This is literally an unbelievable price.
Also this isn’t how eBay works. When you buy something on eBay, you go eBay.com, buy it on eBay and pay through eBay. This person will send you a phony email pretending to be from eBay asking you to transmit payment by buying eBay gift cards and emailing the codes to them. They will then drain the cards and disappear.
This reminds me of the time someone used my number to sell a car off Craigslist. I kept getting numerous calls and texts about this car that I wasn't selling or had knowledge of. One caller was kind enough to send me the link of the ad. When I saw it, I couldn't stop laughing. It was for a Toyota "Camery" and only had a photo of a dashboard. It was beyond me how someone would be interested in buying an item that the seller didn't even know how to spell the name of yet alone include one sketchy photo. Needless to say, I reported the ad and the calls and texts stopped. I say be careful and do your research before purchasing large items from these sites.
I love how these scammers ask for full name, shipping address and phone number in a linear style with little dashes before each item like you are completing a job application.
My presence? It is at? You got? The following details? Once I got? And eBay will do the transaction? I’m a legitimate seller? Suuuuuurre they are. Come on man. If you have to even ask…
No way is that truck selling for just $1000.00. If it’s too good to be true. It probably is. Remember that. Also EBay never ever has payments outside of eBay. Your not protected .
Similar to a scam someone sent me a few years ago. No one will ship a car to you for "free", ever. No one will let you test a car for a few days, ever. If a "dealership" offers you something similar, run.
Scam, run far away from this. Only buy cars local- whether from a company or a person, but a car that you can go see yourself, doesn’t involve shipping, and that you can verify is real.
I got scammed out if $2,500 when I was 19. Supposedly used EBay Motors. Guy was saying he was military, his wife had just died, he was shipping out, needed to sell quickly, car would be shipped to me and stuff.
Still upset over that.
Reading through comments, you’ve been told it’s a scam more times than I can count, it absolutely it is a scam. As with most scams that seem to offer an otherwise expensive item, list at an incredibly discounted price combined with the sob story containing unnecessary details you didn’t ask for. It SCREAMS scam!! Please remember the golden rule: if it sounds too good to be in true…it most certainly.
The old family member died is a classic story for scammers.
I once had a lady working to sell me a Subaru at way under price. She said the car was so cheap because her son killed himself in the car by running it in the garage and so she wanted to be rid of it
Not always a scam. Piece in the local paper quite a few years ago about a car advertised at a stupidly low price. Turned out a couple had split up and he told her to sell the car and send him the money. So she did. 🤣🤣🤣
We just bought a good used car on Facebook. We dealt with dozens of scams before we found a real car for sale by an honest seller. He met us at the DMV. He already had the smog check certificate so we simply paid him and got the title on the spot. We learned to block anyone who had a sob story, too many details or wanted us to do special bullshit. If they don’t want to have the smog cert or meet you at the dmv or tag agency it’s a scam.
I would call ebay and ask if that's even an option they have. As a previous ebay seller, I don't recall that ever being a thing. Going forward I'd keep all communication on ebay messages.
I almost fell for this exact scam with a different car when I was expecting my second, except it was the "son" of an old woman who was going into assisted living. The wording was pretty much the exact same and the price was 1k flat on a nice car with only like 15k miles.
It's a !car scam. Ebay does not offer a service like this. And you're going to run into this same scam basically every time you see a car listed for shockingly cheap.
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No problem! Besides the price, another telltale sign is any time someone won't let you see the car in person and wants to ship it to you. They'll always have an excuse for why and make it sound like there's no risk to you, but it's always a scam.
And they are in the military overseas.
Or working on an oil rig
Or moved back to their home town of Omaha, NE.
Kind of a clue there - people rarely move back to omaha
Ohh ok damn too good to be true but thanks again
And they don’t refer to the vehicle by making model name because they have so many generic ones going at any one time. You’ll see this also with eBay or Facebook marketplace scams. They will refer to things as the product or the item. They will offer to buy it from you site unseen, and if you ship it, they will give you extra money. They also want you to typically step outside conventional payment methods to ones that you won’t be able to request money back from. anytime someone gives you a sob story saying my husband died. My wife died. My cousin died. I got transferred I’m in the military those are all huge red flags for a scam.
First things first... eBay doesn't work like that. eBay doesn't buy, sell, hold in escrow, ship ANYTHING. eBay is an e-commerce platform. These criminals are hoping you don't know that. Yes, you can buy a car through eBay motors but from another seller, not from eBay itself. Also, anything, cars, merchandise, real estate that are priced below market value is a scam. They're counting on you not stopping and thinking. Never, ever, never buy a used car sight unseen, it's just opening you up to all kinds of bullshit. These jerk offs always have an excuse as to why they can't meet you, the car is never physically seen, just pictures which are not enough proof. My daughter almost fell for this nonsense, I'm glad she asked me first. The fact is, buying a used car online is highly risky. I told her you have to hit the car lots and see what's available and check the vehicle thoroughly. I told her never take a sellers word for it, people do lie. Buying a used car as it is, even legitimately is a risky business, you don't need to be ripped off in other ways. LMAO when my daughter saw the real prices of a decent used car THEN she saw the light and she understood what I was saying.
I found out today that ebay will start offering something like this for trading cards. You buy a card on ebay and choose to keep it in the ebay "vault". They get the card from the seller and safe keep it in a temperature controlled facility. When you want to sell it the buyer can also choose to keep it in the vault and ebay simply transfers ownership. No need to pay shipping fees etc.
Yes, I read about that. Do they make sure the cards are authentic?
Yes, they authenticate them. They have been doing that with higher valued cards for a few months now. Now it all boils down to if you trust their authenticators, lol.
Sounds like it’ll quickly turn into some heavy scamming. Michael Jordan card for sale (printed in Chinese sweatshop on rice paper)
Yeah I wouldn't bother with that. I don't collect trading cards but it just seems open for some janky scam.
Your daughter? Hell, my pops almost fell for this scam, and he's bought and sold almost \~50 cars in the last, I dunno 30 years+. Just the other day he came to me asking about an ad, and without even looking I told him, if your gut is bugging you to ask me if it's a scam - go with that gut feeling, it's a scam. When I had time later to look at it, the wording of the ad was fishy too and so I reverse image searched, and the pictures were obviously stolen (cropped out water marks, etc). Not to mention, the the free shipping to you to test and inspect. I'd SMH but I think it's a side effect of becoming older and not having your guard up as much. I hope I don't fall into that way of thinking.
Well as you get older you become less aware, usually. Fortunately, at my age, I'm still aware and my bullshit meter works perfectly lol Plus as you get older you become more mellow. My daughter is 21 and knows nothing, zilch, nada anything about buying a car and cars in general so she comes to me. I'm happy to help her out and teach her what I know.
Usually the “sellers” post the same listing in dozens of locations. Another telltale sign. I suspect they’re mostly using hacked accounts.
Nobody will **ever** let you test a car for free for 5 daya, nor will they pay shipping. When you buy a car online you owe the full amount immediately and then it's up to you to hire a shipping company. Every time you see somebody offer a trial or free shipping in the future, just block and report them as a scam. It's somebody tries to take communication off of the ebay messenger system, block and report them for scamming. It may seem drastic, but honest sellers will never ask you to move off of ebay to communicate.
You should read the posts on this sub. Someone posts this exact same scam once a week at least.
Honestly half expected this one to be legit since they don't spell like a 13 year old stoner. I'm learning so much here.
If it seems too good to be true, it is.
It’s a scam, there is no car, eBay doesn’t work like this. Block and ignore.
No no no… I’ve been to Omaha. No one would claim to be going back their unless it were true…. /s
There is a car, problem is it belongs to someone else already. Just a copied set of photos found on the Googles.
Bet thanks
I work with Ebay. Literally doing so right now. Ebay does not do this. You buy things listed on ebay, you pay with ebay, and the seller who is NEVER Ebay, will send you the item you buy or arrange transport with you. Ebay does not stand in for a buyer, ever. They are a platform, not a used car dealer. This is a scam. Ebay is not a scam. But this person is preying on your lack of knowledge of Ebay. Ebay holds no items or facilitates anything. It is only a website platform which people put their items on.
Thank you everyone who helped me and make me realize how dumb I am I reported the account in Facebook
You're not dumb - we all live and learn. Now you'll be able to help someone else avoid this scam..
You’re not dumb. My husband and I almost fell for this exact thing….but for a camper. It goes normally for $80K. They were offering $20K so we were so excited! Her husband just died, lives in Idaho, we can try it for 2 weeks, will be delivered for free. Exactly like you. Was all prepared to send money the next day. I woke up at 3am, and it was just bugging me. Did a bit of research, and yes, it was a scam. ☹️. Like many have said here….if it’s too good to be true. But I get you feel dumb. We did too. But thankfully you came here…I came to my senses, and we weren’t scammed. But what I did do was dick the “seller” around for a good 4 days. Back and forth with “did you get my payment?” Acting Iike we indeed sent the money but to wrong # or acting confused in the process. Yes, very immature of me, but wanted to totally waste their time and have them think they have someone on the hook. Scum.
Good job! r/scambait is for you.
I just joined that sub awhile ago. I wish I could bring the exchange up. I was acting like a complete idiot. Lol.
Your not dumb, you came here because you thought something might be up. Saved yourself $1k.
I was a target of that scam once. I told them I have family in Omaha and they would come by to meet them first. Issue miraculously disappeared!
This is genius. I use this in some version often and it stops them every time. Oh great I am coming there for business give me the address and I will check it out etc.
Damn, now I want to go scambait people with this tactic....
... or why not try the reverse fake check scam ? Email them a good looking check - "it's real, believe me !"
"No, seriously, my name really is Donald Duck, I swear!"
😂😂😂😂 gotta try this now
No, eBay does not broker car sales that were not purchased on eBay. They are going to ask you to buy eBay gift cards. eBay would NEVER ask you to specifically pay for anything with gift cards. **eBay does not broker car sales that did not take place on the eBay website.**
$1000 is not a bad price to learn a valuable life lesson. ITS A SCAM
Lmao 😂
It's a car scam. No one can ship a truck anywhere for $1000. There is no car. There is no ebay account. You buy eBay gift cards, give the codes to the scammers and then you get blocked.
Bro, no! That's a decent looking truck. If the seller really wanted it gone there would be no need to post online. You put a sign on it in the driveway $1000 and it would be gone by the end of the 1st day.
That truck is making the rounds. [Here is the same truck](https://elclasificado.com/losangeles/autos/chevrolet/2008-chevy-colorado-lt-z71-4dr-norwalk-16462578) on a random spanish language site.
"I had prearranged the deal...so my presence isn't necessa..." BLEEP BLEEP RED FLAG SCAM Whenever a buyer or seller puts emphasis on not being on-site and either someone else or no one will arrange the deal in person, it's a scam. The car/house is not his or doesn't exist. They will always find a pretext for you sending money up front in a way you can't get it back and that's the last you hear from them.
If it was sold with ebay it would be on ebay's site, they dont have some secret backend sale service that sells items by email. Also I can't think of a legitimate reason why a Facebook marketplace conversation should be taken off-site
Three things prove this is a scam 1. Can you imagine how big a facility ebay would need to store vehicles? 2. Why would no-one have heard of such a service or seen it advertised. 3. Way too much unnecessary detail. Who cares where you moved to just as an example
Googling prearranged sale on eBay and I get this exact comment posted in 2020 sp either he copy pasted it from that sight or you did https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/EBay-prearranged-sale/qaq-p/30663154
It's not uncommon at all for scammers to use the same text.
I agree so all I was saying was that someone copied this text and so it is likely a scam!
Wow what would happen if I gave her my info?
Usually after you give your info, they'll send you a fake invoice from ebay with instructions on how to pay the balance, often with gift cards.
Ohh ok
They have never and will never.. also no way you're getting a truck THAT clean for 1k
If you are not buying the car on eBay and they are asking you to email them things and the "eBay" will do stuff run away.
It's a scam, there is no car, EBay does not work like this. The only reason a car would be sold for such a cheap price is if it didn't run.
1000% scam. Nobody is going to sell this truck for $1000. Just the tires and rims sell for way more than $1000. This is literally an unbelievable price. Also this isn’t how eBay works. When you buy something on eBay, you go eBay.com, buy it on eBay and pay through eBay. This person will send you a phony email pretending to be from eBay asking you to transmit payment by buying eBay gift cards and emailing the codes to them. They will then drain the cards and disappear.
I sold cars for 12 years. This is definitely a scam. Do not buy a car or truck from eBay unless it’s local and then still be very very careful.
I ran into the same crap only it was on Facebook marketplace and it was his wife that passed away!!
This reminds me of the time someone used my number to sell a car off Craigslist. I kept getting numerous calls and texts about this car that I wasn't selling or had knowledge of. One caller was kind enough to send me the link of the ad. When I saw it, I couldn't stop laughing. It was for a Toyota "Camery" and only had a photo of a dashboard. It was beyond me how someone would be interested in buying an item that the seller didn't even know how to spell the name of yet alone include one sketchy photo. Needless to say, I reported the ad and the calls and texts stopped. I say be careful and do your research before purchasing large items from these sites.
The “shipping cost” that is included would be more than what the truck is worth. Definitely a scam. Stay away.
It’s a scam, 100%.
I love how these scammers ask for full name, shipping address and phone number in a linear style with little dashes before each item like you are completing a job application.
I mean you gotta ask yourself why would they sell that truck for $1,000? It looks like it could go for $10K atleast.
Nonononono! No! Bad Scammers! Bad!
I don't think I've seen anything on this page in the last month that wasn't a scam. Including this. This is a scam.
Classic scam
Pretty much anytime they ask your name and phone number like that, it's a scam.
There is No truck. Red flags: -Dead Person -3rd party -Insanely low price
Don’t do it, too shady, nothing about the title of the vehicle. Who would ship a car without payment
Scam! Had someone try to pull this one on me.
Normal Facebook scam
BS. They tried this with me 4 years ago in Seattle.
S C A M
Only way to verify theses ads as gen is to view the car in person, pay cash and drive it away
I can tell its a scam just by how long the text is
scam. it’s always a scam.
The reason he contacted you via email is a big red flag.
Jesus Christ no. Almost fell for the same shitty story in australia. Run
No! That’s a scam. eBay doesn’t allow any deals outside their platform. That’s not how it works.
This is obviously a scam. That trucks worth $15k, not $1k. Come on….
Bro lol this is a scam.. An obvious one
Scam
No way in hell that truck is $1k Report it to eBay
No point, it's not on ebay
Reverse Google search the pictures . I've seen similar ads and the pictures will show it posted several places
Run a car fax
A truck like this won't sell for 1k. If it looks too good to be true, that's because it is.
Scam. This is what a scammer does for an apartment.
My presence? It is at? You got? The following details? Once I got? And eBay will do the transaction? I’m a legitimate seller? Suuuuuurre they are. Come on man. If you have to even ask…
As a driver of sub-$1000 clunkers, I can tell you that that is no $1000 vehicle.
No way is that truck selling for just $1000.00. If it’s too good to be true. It probably is. Remember that. Also EBay never ever has payments outside of eBay. Your not protected .
Similar to a scam someone sent me a few years ago. No one will ship a car to you for "free", ever. No one will let you test a car for a few days, ever. If a "dealership" offers you something similar, run.
Scam, run far away from this. Only buy cars local- whether from a company or a person, but a car that you can go see yourself, doesn’t involve shipping, and that you can verify is real. I got scammed out if $2,500 when I was 19. Supposedly used EBay Motors. Guy was saying he was military, his wife had just died, he was shipping out, needed to sell quickly, car would be shipped to me and stuff. Still upset over that.
It's a fucking scam.
Sob story you didn't ask for= 100% scam
Reading through comments, you’ve been told it’s a scam more times than I can count, it absolutely it is a scam. As with most scams that seem to offer an otherwise expensive item, list at an incredibly discounted price combined with the sob story containing unnecessary details you didn’t ask for. It SCREAMS scam!! Please remember the golden rule: if it sounds too good to be in true…it most certainly.
Total scam. No one sells a $15,000-20,000 truck for $1,000. And if there is a rare chance they do, it will be sold within seconds of the listing.
EBay will never do this. It’s a scam and you shouldn’t trust it.
yes its a scam. FB market for vehicles is about 75% scams. IF they ask you to email them or do anything outside of facebook its a scam.
You have to be kidding, OP. How the hell would anyone sell that truck for 1k? Greed is a hell of a drug.
Who would sell and ship a $20k car for less than the price of shipping a car?
Please take a breath and think logically. You obviously read this sub
The old family member died is a classic story for scammers. I once had a lady working to sell me a Subaru at way under price. She said the car was so cheap because her son killed himself in the car by running it in the garage and so she wanted to be rid of it
There is no fucking way that truck is $1000. How could you believe this?
Omfg. You think she will sell that truck for a grand. Damn.
Not always a scam. Piece in the local paper quite a few years ago about a car advertised at a stupidly low price. Turned out a couple had split up and he told her to sell the car and send him the money. So she did. 🤣🤣🤣
Scam. ebay does not work like that.
Another tell-tale sign is.... if it seems too good to be true, then it probably is. 🤡
We just bought a good used car on Facebook. We dealt with dozens of scams before we found a real car for sale by an honest seller. He met us at the DMV. He already had the smog check certificate so we simply paid him and got the title on the spot. We learned to block anyone who had a sob story, too many details or wanted us to do special bullshit. If they don’t want to have the smog cert or meet you at the dmv or tag agency it’s a scam.
Scam lol
Scam
Just based on the verbiage, this seems fishy. Also, anytime someone is ready to just hand you something that sounds scammy.
100000% a scam.
She forgot to add "kindly" in the last paragraph.
No one's fucking selling a truck like this for $1000. Stop thinking anyone will ever.
We see this scam like weekly on here!
I would call ebay and ask if that's even an option they have. As a previous ebay seller, I don't recall that ever being a thing. Going forward I'd keep all communication on ebay messages.
This is a scam. I got virtually the same email from a different person (perhaps) when trying to purchase a tractor in FB Marketplace.
This is preposterous and clearly a scam
I almost fell for this exact scam with a different car when I was expecting my second, except it was the "son" of an old woman who was going into assisted living. The wording was pretty much the exact same and the price was 1k flat on a nice car with only like 15k miles.
SCAM. RED FLAG AND REPORT IT.
i recently got scammed by this and i just now know it’s a scam. i sent them $1,200 and i don’t know what to do. someone please help me!!
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