Does Pistonheads manage classified sales?

[Tyler Durden]

The person selling this car tells me they do.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2495529.htm

Is it a scam?

[davepoth]

What have they said? The way it works is like a classified ad in the paper, PH takes no part in the transaction.

[Kinky]

Suggest you read this - which you should have done already.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/fraudwarnings.asp

[RB26DETT]

NO!

Adds ending in the below usually shout scam!

!!!Best e-mail me directly at [e-mail] because I am having problems receiving your messages through PistonHeads system.Thank you!!!


Run for the hills or take the piss for a while your choice.

[RemainAllHoof]

And here's the original/legit ad:
http://www.pistonheads.com/SALes/2382918.htm

And here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RENAULT-CLIO-SPORT-182-CUP-M...
(Possibly, repost on ebay and the seller would go with the first offer?)

[pozi]

Yes it is a scam.

The other strange thing is if you do some homework you will find the phone number was used in another ad on here for a Citroen Xantia from a guy called Matt based in Devon.

Although the Xantia ad looks a lot more genuine so I would guess at a copy and paste of the number, and probably a similar job on the Clio photos and text from a different advert.

[pozi]

RemainAllHoof said:

And here's the original/legit ad:
http://www.pistonheads.com/SALes/2382918.htm

And here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RENAULT-CLIO-SPORT-182-CUP-M...
(Possibly, repost on ebay and the seller would go with the first offer?)

You beat me to it !!

[tim2100]

pozi said:

Yes it is a scam.

The other strange thing is if you do some homework you will find the phone number was used in another ad on here for a Citroen Xantia from a guy called Matt based in Devon.

Although the Xantia ad looks a lot more genuine so I would guess at a copy and paste of the number, and probably a similar job on the Clio photos and text from a different advert.

If its a Phone safe number I believe they are recycled after the advert dies.

[Hugo a Gogo]

does anyone genuine actually have "Vaguely plausible sounding name followed by random number" @ hotmail address?

[RemainAllHoof]

Hugo a Gogo said:

does anyone genuine actually have "Vaguely plausible sounding name followed by random number" @ hotmail address?

Depends; might be the person's age if there are lots of them. Some people put the birth year.

Off-topic: I wonder how much the original "shadowninja" hotmail address is worth (yes, I nabbed it just after hotmail launched back in the day when the interweb was black and white).

[Hugo a Gogo]

can't imagine there are lots of Rosslyn Lambies all trying to get the same email address

[PetrolTed]

http://sheffield.gumtree.com/sheffield/35/73768035...