why you don't reply me ????

[yellowvette]

hello everybody !!
I'am french and want to buy a car on pistonheads adverts !
it's not my first car that I buy on PH, I'am a serious buyier (it's my 5th or 6th)
but this time I have NO reply...I send 40 mails and have no reply !!
why ?? it's because I'am french or ther eis another reason ?? it's the holiday ?? the new year ??
my mail is [e-mail] there is a problem on this mail on PH ??
thanks for your answer and excuse me for my bad english

[yellowvette]

kambites said:

I think there has been a significant number of people posing as foreigners from other parts of Western Europe trying to scam people who are selling cars recently, I suspect that most people find it easier to write off any foreigner as a scam, than actually spend time trying to work out the difference.

maybe because for the last car I never had this problems and I don't pay with western union or other, I will go to england to see the car and paid with £££ in cash

[yellowvette]

Shaw Tarse said:

Your email sounds like those used by scammers

in france this is a standard mail, the scammers use gmail.com

[yellowvette]

UnluckyTimmeh said:

There is a chance the advert is a scam?
If it seems to good to be true it usually is....
The other possibilty is the person you are emailing may not be recieving your emails. I.e. If because it is coming from a .fr email address it may be getting put straight into junk.
If they are a registered user on here maybe email one of the PH mods, Garlick, Riggers etc and they might be able to get word to the seller you are trying to contact them.

Hope this helps.

Tim.

P.s. Very jealous as I would love to be based in Rouen. Fantastic driving roads

yes I love the road near rouen with my noble m12

[yellowvette]

Urban Sports said:

If this jolly turns out not to be a troll, I'll eat a snail baguette!

I'am not a troll..you can eat a snail baguette
I buy a lot of car in UK, I registred them in france and sell them in france, it's my business
My english isn't very good so with the phone I have a lot of difficulties, I tried with a mail adress hotmail.co.uk
I see if it's better

[yellowvette]

Mattt said:

I don't know why people are surprised these days - Sterling is weak, cars in the UK are much cheaper than cars in Europe - a fair bit of money to be made in taking them over there.

yes in france take the jap' cars in example! for an evo 8 the less price than I find is 19000€
and generally cars are 2x or 3x more expensive than in the UK

[yellowvette]

Max_Torque said:

Isn't the steering wheel kinda on the wrong side for France??

no it's not a problem on the jap' car because the people who buy me cars is young so when you have the same car but 40% less than the french price even if the steering wheel is on the wrong side you sold the car !!
but I have a jaguar XJR and this one don't interest french people even if it's 40% cheaper

[yellowvette]

UnluckyTimmeh said:

If they're 3x more expensive over there I guess you could have them converted and still make money...

no I sold car in right hand drive but not at 3x the UK price !!
french people never buy a car which is converted, they don't trust in the transformation (I'am not sure if you understand what I mean)

[yellowvette]

mybrainhurts said:

You need to wave a white flag to get attention....

maybe but it's strange because I use the same "method" for my last 5 cars and it's already sucess but this time it's harder to have a reply, maybe it's christmas and the happy new year

[yellowvette]

waremark said:

yellowvette said:

yes I love the road near rouen with my noble m12

How do you manage not to get your car confiscated by the police? How fast can you go in France before there is a risk of the car being confiscated? (I was fined 750 euros last year for allegedly 155 kph on a single carriageway road in France. It was a profitable day for the local police benevolent fund - I was following a friend, and we were both escorted to a local cash card machine before we were allowed on our way).

I already have with me a big file with all the paper of the car and I give to the policeman when I'am arrested and they just check my driver license and check if I don't steal the car !!
and I drive carefully