yeah, i'd be interested to see how he reacts....I bet he'd make up a reason why you can't see it

seriously, you should call and say you're coming to see / drive it

 

I could easily make up a story about visiting a relative down there and coming to check out the car in person. I'll keep you guys posted.

 

Yeah do it. If he acts Like it's cool, then maybe he really is serious, but more then likely, he'll freak out, and run. lol

 

Another option would be for one of you guys to send him an e-mail expressing interest in the car as well, and see if he says that there's someone looking at it, or gives you another story.

 

hey, that is a good idea. Any takers? if not, i'll do it.

 

Ok....here's the skinny on how one scam works. Or at least one of the scams people are using.

The want to buy your car and pay MORE than you are asking for your car. Why would they do this you say ? They supposedly have a friend who owes them money and in exchange for you being the middle man they will give you MORE than you are asking.
So if you are asking 10K they offer you 11K because their "friend" owes them 12K. So do the math.

12K - 10K - 1K= 1K left over that they want you to WIRE to them. Now here comes the fun part....

They say they will send you a cashiers check for the your amount + XYZ. They want you to WIRE them the difference.
The banks will deposit your check but the term "clear" is deceiving because banks HAVE to give you access to any check you cash within 5 days of depositing it and most banks don't even wait that long. So you go 5 days and you don't hear anything from your bank you have access to the funds and you think it's all great.

Then a few more days go by and you hear from the bank that the check didn't clear. Checks are still paper dude and any number of things can be done to slow down their processing including using ink to fill in the numbers on the bottom of the check. That totally screws with the computer that reads the check. Then the check has to be manually processed in some cases further delaying you finding out it's no good.
At this point you are out of any money you wire them plus whatever fake money you spent + bank fees.

 

I emailed him and asked him if the car could be shipped to Italy.

 

rollin66, that is a popular scam method, but doesn't really apply to this particular situation, since I'm the one supposed to be buying the car, and since it's through an escrow service.

 

SCAM, run don't walk, run man run!!

 

all this talk about bogus deals on mustangs is distracting me from filing with the foreign agent who wants my bank info so i can split the 160 million drcma ($1.82 usd) with the widow of the primeministers 3rd cousin on his neighbors side who was mysterously killed while sky diveing out a 49 chev convert to float away to cuba

brianj (tncruiser)