Does anyone smell a rat with this website selling repo cars?

[xtruss]

A friend contacted them, and they did reply saying you can't view the cars as they are in secure storage, so it's delivery only on a car, and upon delivery, if your not happy then they will refund. It all smells a bit to me.
https://ukrepossessedvehicles.com
Domain is only 4 weeks old and registered abroad.
Has any one got any dealings with this company.

[sunbeam alpine]

Their suggested way of doing business seems to have a lot in common with the scammers, so even if they're not scammers, they may not be very successful.

Then again, if it walks like a duck.......

[dudleybloke]

£10k for this!

https://ukrepossessedvehicles.com/?product=2017-ja...

Do they take magic beans as payment?

[vikingaero]

UK Registered Company, husband and wife directors, flatbed parked outside the house on Streetview! What's not to like?!

No viewing/delivery only/new site/strange 01162 number should normally be for Leeds and not Manc. Maybe their yard is in Leeds? Pictures of cars not in one location. Seem to be jumble from everywhere or stolen car pictures and details.

[Pistonheader101]

very much a fraudulent setup

[Vaud]

vikingaero said:

UK Registered Company, husband and wife directors, flatbed parked outside the house on Streetview! What's not to like?!

No viewing/delivery only/new site/strange 01162 number should normally be for Leeds and not Manc. Maybe their yard is in Leeds? Pictures of cars not in one location. Seem to be jumble from everywhere or stolen car pictures and details.

0116 is Leicester?

[xtruss]

This is the address from the email reply, correct in the domain name format, but the other name is from a disolved company.
I'm going for the if it smells like a tur d option.

Edited by xtruss on Tuesday 3rd April 17:48

[vikingaero]

Vaud said:

vikingaero said:

UK Registered Company, husband and wife directors, flatbed parked outside the house on Streetview! What's not to like?!

No viewing/delivery only/new site/strange 01162 number should normally be for Leeds and not Manc. Maybe their yard is in Leeds? Pictures of cars not in one location. Seem to be jumble from everywhere or stolen car pictures and details.

0116 is Leicester?

I meant Leicester. Not sure why brain thought Leeds

[clayts450]

[J4CKO]

That website has the air of "My mates kid does a bit of web design"

Nobody sells anything at less than half its market value if its any good, Repossessions can offer a saving but not like 2014 Jags for 7 grand.

[Mercky]

J4CKO said:

That website has the air of "My mates kid does a bit of web design"

Nobody sells anything at less than half its market value if its any good, Repossessions can offer a saving but not like 2014 Jags for 7 grand.

They've repeated the first 'paragraph' twice on the about us page. Definitely a bunch of con men.

[Ron99]

It's a scam. I've seen variants of this scam pop up every few months for the last few years.

Often the scammers use a company name that's similar to an existing trustworthry company.

Sometimes the papers run a story about people who got sucked in.

A number of the 3+ year old cars listed have advertised mileage that's considerably less than what was recorded at the last MoT.
Check for yourself on the .gov MoT database:
https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

[TonyRPH]

The website is hosted in Malaysia - not that unusual to host stuff offshore though I suppose.

The domain registration seems a bit odd too.

I seem to recall something like this cropping up a couple of years ago - I suspect that "D Autos LTD" probably don't even know this website exists.

[Butter Face]

Yes, complete scam. All of the pictures are farmed from dealer sites etc. You just need to search the registrations on Cazana to see cars they have advertised for much much more money.

Avoid like the plague.

[TonyRPH]

They have a Merc listed here

If you look at the URL it implies it's an estate (but the advertised car isn't...)

And then I found an exact image match (alas, car is sold on genuine site)



Image as grabbed from the fake site:

[xtruss]

Fantastic response from PH members, and thanks.
Now I'm thinking tin of custard.

[rix]

They’ve also nicked the text from...

https://www.repossessions-uk.com/

I always find that scammers are too lazy to come up with their own words so can often google a sentence/paragraph to show as such!

[Midds58]

REPOCARS
WE DROVE TO DARLINGTON AND POST CODE LEAD US TO A PUB THE PERSON AT PUB SAID THIS WEBSITE IS USING THEIR ADDRESS AND ITS A COMPLETE CON. THEY DO NOT EXIST. THANK GOD WE DID NOT PART WITH ANY MONEY

[J4CKO]

Midds58 said:

REPOCARS
WE DROVE TO DARLINGTON AND POST CODE LEAD US TO A PUB THE PERSON AT PUB SAID THIS WEBSITE IS USING THEIR ADDRESS AND ITS A COMPLETE CON. THEY DO NOT EXIST. THANK GOD WE DID NOT PART WITH ANY MONEY

If they cant scam someone who cant operate the Caps Lock key, no hope for them.

Sorry, glad you didnt get scammed though

[S11Steve]

I know the thread is a bit old now, but virtually all the repos from finance companies are sold via the usual auction sites into trade buyers.

Bailiff repo cars to settle a debt will usually be sold through the nearest auction site to the collection location.
POCA seizures will either be scrapped or sold at dedicated sites like http://www.charlestaylor.co.uk/

Given that the original website is defunct already, scam is likely confirmed. Take a few dozen deposits for non-existent cars, and disappear.