Whats the scam - underpriced cars

[philcray]

Does anybody knwo what is going on here? See first 2 cars on the list

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_search.j...

Clearly massivley underpriced - the same thing happens for most searhces on autotrader these days - there will be a small number of seemimgly genuine looking private cars but priced at least £10k below everyone else.

Not been interested enough to actually ring them up but wondered if anyone else had or had a nidea of why they do it???

[cptsideways]

First on the list, partly caused by AT itself & people leaving sold cars on for weeks months. If your genuinely interested in buying a car AT is pretty crap these days IMHO. Its cheeky & sneaky to do it but it obviously works for some.

[philcray]

Cheers. i can see a logic if you put your car on at £299,995 to get at the top of the list or even £295 for the other end as you might conceivably say it is a typo - but advertising at a price like this would surely make people (like me!) suspicious that something a bit dodgy is afoot? Equally the photos for some of these cars look like they are cut and pastes, often off dealer sites...

Maybe i am just getting paranoid in my old age - in my yuonger days i would just have seen a potential bargain!

[motormad]

philcray said:

Does anybody knwo what is going on here? See first 2 cars on the list

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www/cars_search.j...

Clearly massivley underpriced - the same thing happens for most searhces on autotrader these days - there will be a small number of seemimgly genuine looking private cars but priced at least £10k below everyone else.

Not been interested enough to actually ring them up but wondered if anyone else had or had an idea of why they do it???

Obviously been sold or removed... all about the same price now... (Wed 27th)

[tommimak]

hi lads - the scam is the car is not the bloke whos advertis3ed it - the pics are copy and pasted - they will ask for a western money gram money transfer - and they will offer to ship the car over to you.
once paid - thev hit a jackpot -there on ebay aswell
i know a few people that have lost £5000 - £10000
just be carefull

[philcray]

hi, as always if it looks too good to be true it probably is... i looked at an M3 advert the other day and i am sure the pictures were cut & paste from a BMW main dealers website - the scammers usually leave the number plate visible so a quick check will show that the car exists and is genuine.... Now i think about it, before i was aware of the widespread nature of this scam i rang about a CLK which was very cheap. The chap said the car was in Spain held in a secure compound, i would pay the money direct to the company - not to him so all genuine and i could phone them up if i wanted to - and they would ship to the UK... i am suspicious by nature and always expect the worst so walked away but the person was british and seemed genuine on the phone (as i guess sucessful conmen do...) My thought then was, if it was genuine, surely a dealer would by it for the price - about £14k compared to around £24k for a similar cars on the forecourt.