Buying a car beware..........

[cossy400]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7930931/B...




Ive read the article and its full of holes which i know the PH massive will see.

Feel for them though, must of been traumatic.

[J4CKO]

Half price Merc from Oldham, seems legit....

Feel sorry for them, absolutely dreadful but you dont get any kind of 18 plate GLA for 9 grand, if it seems to good to be true and all that.

My grandparents were from Failsworth near Oldham, saw quite a bit of it and lot of it is a bit ropey.

[Butter Face]

Yes the £9000 price tag should have been enough to make people think twice. Not a pleasant experience to have to go through that!

[ATM]

Is it just me thinking he is 48 and she is maybe half his age?

[cossy400]

Yea thats the sticking point for me too, and even the Wail say its a 20 grand car....

Sad all round and will take a long while to heal there wounds after that.

[anonymous-user]

Scumbags.

Seems an odd couple though, he is 48 and She barely looks out of her teens.

[WonkeyDonkey]

ATM said:

Is it just me thinking he is 48 and she is maybe half his age?

How on earth do you pronounce the name of the company that have copyrighted that photo lol.

Either that or the mail have just pulled the pic straight from facebook and used the filename as copyright. Muppets.

[anonymous-user]

Who uses £9k cash to buy a car?

[Butter Face]

jsf said:

Who uses £9k cash to buy a car?

People who are so blinded by getting a great 'deal' who ignore the risks of a seller saying they will only take cash.

They're lucky they didn't get killed for it TBH.

[Thankyou4calling]

A not dissimilar thing happened to me.

Brother won a car on EBay, I went to collect it with the cash.

There was no car just a Lithuanian gang.

Despite being powerfully built ( in fact the cops said BECAUSE I was powerfully built) I was attacked and left for dead.

Spent 3 days on life support, 4 weeks in intensive care. Fractured skull, lost an eye, jaw broken in 3 places, broken leg, ear torn off, multiple wounds over 40% of my bod.

It was recreated for crimewatch and in the Nationals.

But I live to tell the tale.

[Not-The-Messiah]

I wonder if there would be any way of claiming something back from eBay in a situation like this? In away they have helped in a robbery. OK they wouldn't have been able to know but I would at least expect them to do everything they can to help the authorities track the sods down.

I will say though like others have said if something looks to good to be true and all that.

[Oakey]

Thankyou4calling said:

A not dissimilar thing happened to me.

Brother won a car on EBay, I went to collect it with the cash.

There was no car just a Lithuanian gang.

Despite being powerfully built ( in fact the cops said BECAUSE I was powerfully built) I was attacked and left for dead.

Spent 3 days on life support, 4 weeks in intensive care. Fractured skull, lost an eye, jaw broken in 3 places, broken leg, ear torn off, multiple wounds over 40% of my bod.

It was recreated for crimewatch and in the Nationals.

But I live to tell the tale.

This didn't happen did it?

[ATM]

Oakey said:

Thankyou4calling said:

A not dissimilar thing happened to me.

Brother won a car on EBay, I went to collect it with the cash.

There was no car just a Lithuanian gang.

Despite being powerfully built ( in fact the cops said BECAUSE I was powerfully built) I was attacked and left for dead.

Spent 3 days on life support, 4 weeks in intensive care. Fractured skull, lost an eye, jaw broken in 3 places, broken leg, ear torn off, multiple wounds over 40% of my bod.

It was recreated for crimewatch and in the Nationals.

But I live to tell the tale.

This didn't happen did it?

Why would he make it up?

[Sophisticated Sarah]

ATM said:

Is it just me thinking he is 48 and she is maybe half his age?

Is it one of those silly selfie photos that uses beautify to smooth the wrinkles?

[AJB88]

Oakey said:

This didn't happen did it?

Nah he dominated the stairs.

[Oakey]

ATM said:

Why would he make it up?

Thankyou4calling's 'schtick' is to read a news article and cynically claim "This never happened". That post reads like he's getting in on the make believe story action

[Earthdweller]

In all seriousness there have been a spate of violent robberies of car buyers in Manchester recently

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-512...

[anonymous-user]

Earthdweller said:

In all seriousness there have been a spate of violent robberies of car buyers in Manchester recently

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...

There are clearly a lot of stupid people out there to exploit.

[Algarve]

Article said:

Georgina's family have set up a GoFundMe page to try and re-coup the money stolen.

They're partly to blame for these crimes in the first place. I'd rather set £20 on fire than donate it towards paying back the losses of those greedy idiots.

[Thankyou4calling]

ATM said:

Why would he make it up?

It happened 100%

Police thought it was modelled on a similar scam featured a couple of weeks previously on Eastenders.