Scam or not?
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DKL

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251 months

Friday 3rd December 2021
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This came up on my ebay search list today, I've vaguely looking at a rapide.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224721943486?mkevt=1&am...

looks ok but really cheap (£29.5k) and inevitably vanished. 77k is quite high so for a private sale maybe not that cheap but still the least I've seen. There is one in Bournemouth that has been around for ages but even that is 10k more. There was one a while back at 2 that looked ok.
I'll be looking at the bottom of the market but there's bottom and there's bottom..
The usual adage applies and it did seem too good.

MarkwG

5,926 posts

218 months

Friday 3rd December 2021
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DKL said:
This came up on my ebay search list today, I've vaguely looking at a rapide.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224721943486?mkevt=1&am...

looks ok but really cheap (£29.5k) and inevitably vanished. 77k is quite high so for a private sale maybe not that cheap but still the least I've seen. There is one in Bournemouth that has been around for ages but even that is 10k more. There was one a while back at 2 that looked ok.
I'll be looking at the bottom of the market but there's bottom and there's bottom..
The usual adage applies and it did seem too good.
I, too, skulk around in the flea-pit end of the market, looking for an excuse to squander the kids inheritance biggrin : that one was listed a while back, can't recall the exact number but it didn't trigger my bullst-ometer then, so I suspect this add was a scam.
As to the Bournemouth one, that has been around a while, I suspect the spec is holding it back: the interior mainly. It's not far from me, but the dealer is also a bit "generic", so I've not sauntered over for a squint. I suspect that maybe my Spidey sense telling me it may not be worth the effort...

DKL

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Friday 3rd December 2021
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First entry should have read £32 for the other one, was in Henley as I recall. That looked ok.
The Charminster one is as you say. I quite like the interior but not the exterior but it looks a bit scruffy!
Really another £10k is needed as per the thread here - how is that going? Chap in Cheltenham?

MarkwG

5,926 posts

218 months

Friday 3rd December 2021
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DKL said:
First entry should have read £32 for the other one, was in Henley as I recall. That looked ok.
The Charminster one is as you say. I quite like the interior but not the exterior but it looks a bit scruffy!
Really another £10k is needed as per the thread here - how is that going? Chap in Cheltenham?
Strange thing with the Charminster one - I like the exterior, not sure about the interior biggrin - in saying that I need another car slightly less than I need a divorce, so it's all theoretical for now. I'm sure there's some diamonds glinting in the coal, though, good luck with the hunt!