Is this Autotrader advert weird?

[Ari]

Is it me or is there something really weird about this advert?

For a start, the car is cheap to the point of bizarre, with that many miles on you'd expect it to be nearer to £15K, examples of this age with close to 100K miles ask more than this.

But the description is sketchy (ok so that doesn't prove anything) and the photos are just, well, odd aren't they?

Interested to see if it's just me...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

[Diabolik]

[jimmy156]

Ari said:

Is it me or is there something really weird about this advert?

For a start, the car is cheap to the point of bizarre, with that many miles on you'd expect it to be nearer to £15K, examples of this age with close to 100K miles ask more than this.

But the description is sketchy (ok so that doesn't prove anything) and the photos are just, well, odd aren't they?

Interested to see if it's just me...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

The photo's are extremely bad photo shops, the car doesn't exist and its a scam. A very bad one!

ETA: in fact its so bad I'm starting to think I might have missed a PH joke

[iOversteer]

I don't think he has a permit to be parked in a park. Won't someone think of the children

[renrut]

The pictures are weird photo shops and make the car look like it isn't even real. That rings alarm bells straight off as it could be anywhere.

Other than that it just reads like someone who doesn't know how to sell a car or doesn't want to give the game away.

[MikePlum]

Needs some photoshopping lessons!

Don't understand why anybody would expect a buyer to be interested in a car with that shoddy advertising! Ok for a £100 Shed... but for a £10k+ Merc? Don't think so!

[MikePlum]

jimmy156 said:

ETA: in fact its so bad I'm starting to think I might have missed a PH joke

hmmm... got me thinking now as well!!

[Shaw Tarse]

Looks fine to me! Ring them up & tell us how you get on

[buster1984]

yep im afraid i agree with Jimmy here. it looks like a stone cold scammer. you get them a lot on these websites. thieving s. you should report the add to auto trader and it will be removed

[Sam1990]

Seems legit

Look out for the small print "Buyer collects from Uganda".

[angusc43]

Looks like something you might see in Sniff Petrol. Or Viz.

[The fatboy]

easy to sense that. weird pic meanwhile without registration plate as well.

[DanB7290]

That's not a Photoshop job.............

...more like MS Paint

[Presuming Ed]

Is that Regents Park? Brilliant, somebody please follow this up.

[Ari]

So how does the scam work?

Punter rings up: "hi, I'm interested in car, can I come and see it?"

Bloke with no car and dodgy advert: "Err..."

[jimmy156]

Ari said:

So how does the scam work?

Punter rings up: "hi, I'm interested in car, can I come and see it?"

Bloke with no car and dodgy advert: "Err..."

Bloke with dodgy car will be "oversea's" as will the car. You will need to pay the money via some third party website, or some other obscure way of paying and that will be the last you'll see of it.

[Ari]

Ah, ok.

And people fall for that?

[Chrisw666]

Ari said:

Ah, ok.

And people fall for that?

Google '419 scams'.

In fact don't bother clicky

[Ari]

That's remarkable!

[ChipsAndCheese]

worst photoshop attempt ever.