Selling a car to an Italian

[bonesX]

An Italian gent has agreed to buy my car (advertised on PH) and I would like to run things past you guys to make sure everything is on the level. So what do you reckon, and TIA

Here is a copy of his email request:

"OK, we can proceed with the deal @ 9k gbp

If you can send me copy of the documents of the car, a bill of sale with your bank details (IBAN and BIC/SWIFT) and your phone number, my friend will pay the car via bank transfer this week and i will send the transporter (that is a friend of mine) the week later (for sure after you will receive the money in your bank account!)"

[deveng]

I hope you're being sarcastic.

[clarkmagpie]

Please say you're joking??

[yellowbentines]

I'll resist the temptation to be rude - he's not agreed to buy your car, he's sucked you in. It's a scam as old as the hills that has been mentioned hundreds of times on here and elsewhere, ignore this 'buyer', find someone who is prepared to buy your car in a less complicated way, if it seems fishy, it probably is.

[ccr32]

[bonesX]

Oh dear

Oh and er, thanks. Think I'll go to bed and have a lie down now

Edited by bonesX on Monday 16th May 23:25

[C2james]

bonesX said:

Oh dear

As long as you haven't sent him any information you should be fine just ignoring him.

[TheMoron]

TM

[Rovinghawk]

bonesX said:

So what do you reckon, and TIA

Is he an oceanographer or merchant sailor, perchance?

RH

[LuS1fer]

You'd be safer selling a dodgy car to the head of the Mafia. If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish and flaps like a fish, it is a fish.

That's not to say you can't have some fun. tell him it is traditional to send you details of his parents and their daye of birth and then provide fictitious bank details and send him to collect at an address in Nigeria pointing out that the car is in Nigeria because you are an oceanographer.

Edited by LuS1fer on Tuesday 17th May 13:17

[Hudson]

Couldnt be any more of a scam if his name was Scammioza Scammy scam scam the third.

send him a matchbox toy instead.

[Mafioso]

Can't believe you had to fking ask...

[soad]

LuS1fer said:

That's not to say you can't have some fun. tell him it is traditional to send you details of his parents and their daye of birth and then provide fictitious bank details and send him to collect at an address in Nigeria pointing out that the car is in Nigeria because you are an oceanographer.

Those oceanographers sure do get around

[bigandclever]

soad said:

LuS1fer said:

That's not to say you can't have some fun. tell him it is traditional to send you details of his parents and their daye of birth and then provide fictitious bank details and send him to collect at an address in Nigeria pointing out that the car is in Nigeria because you are an oceanographer.

Those oceanographers sure do get around

No wonder, no bugger will sell them a car

[Crusoe]

Watch out for the pasta sauce spilled everywhere, the syncros on the gearbox being wrecked by full power upshifts racing round Rome and the interior lights and mirrors being worn out due to excessive use....


sorry misread the title ;-)

[Garlick]

soad said:

Those oceanographers sure do get around

They certainly do, one recently wanted to buy my Merc.

[Rovinghawk]

You're small-time; I had two oceanographers, one naval officer & an oil rig worker offer to buy my SLK.

RH

[bobr]

I'd have thought it would be a pizza cake

[Diablos-666]

...how many more times.

If you have to question whether it's a scam then 99/100 times it is a scam. Move on...

HTH

[killsta]

Rovinghawk said:

You're small-time; I had two oceanographers, one naval officer & an oil rig worker offer to buy my SLK.

RH

I hope you played them off against each other and got the best price.