Anybody heard this scam yet?

[ARedetzke]

I'm trying to sell my Jeep using an online classified and got this reply to the ad today:



Are you Firm on that 9k? I'm really interested in Jeeps like yours

I have to shuffle money around to keep my ex out of my pockets.

I have a great job and I can make an offer of 7500-8K

I am in New hampshire so I would have to set-up shipping etc.

I can give you 4K cash nearly immediately. Then I can give you the remainder at 400. 00 weekly for the next 10 weeks.

I simply ask that you drive it to a shipping hub nearby ( I would set it up)

I'll sign any purchase and sales agreement you need. The jeep would ship after you get the 4K.

I think its an attractive offer, hopefully you'll find some value in it also. It's a good looking Jeep. Bummer you have to sell it.

Let me know what you think or maybe you have some tweeks to the deal.

Thanks

Chuck





I told him I'd be happy to take $500 for a deposit, and hold the jeep for 10 weeks until he gets the remainder of the cash. He said he'd get back to me. 2 things strike me as odd about this:

1. If you have a very good job, and can afford to part with $400 a week for 10 weeks, don't you think you'd be able to afford a $9000 Jeep? If this was me trying to sell some schmuck on this payment plan, I wouldn't try to haggle first.

2. He never asked me a single question about the Jeep.



Also his initial ad reply was blank. Almost like he was looking at every ad and just punching in his email address. I emailed him back asking if he had forgotten to type in a message, and he emailed me back almost immediatly, like he was just looking for someone desperate to sell. It's a g-mail address too, which isn't exactly hard to get.

Opinions?

AJ

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Run away!



Jim

 

[ARedetzke]

I notified admin on the site. They said he appeared to be legit, as he hadn't been "mass replying" to ads. However they did say to proceed with caution. I don't expect to hear from him again.

 

[Woodenhead]

... I have a great job and I can make an offer of 7500-8K...

Well chuck..... which is it 7500 or 8k anyone making an offer on a vehicle doesn't offer a price range, they offer a number they're willing to pay. What's he think, your going to say OK 7500 is fine when he already let you know 8 grand was on the table. Hmmmmmmmm

 

[crobertson1]

I had one like that when I was selling my '01. 5. He wanted to send me part of the money and hold it for like 2 months, while I was trying to buy my '04. 5. I said no thanks, but said I'd hold it for as long as he wanted if he sent all the money. Neither of us wanted to proceed any further.

 

[JPope]

I thought the way you handled a deal like this, if you were the buyer, would be to say, you are asking $9k, I have $8K in my pocket right now, can we say sold?, then you have some incentive to dicker?

 

[JoshPeters]

Be VERY CAREFUL! I was selling my sled last winter and ran into this scam... but worse... Here's what I found out... They will make out a FAKE cashiers check for you. Anything over $4,000 I was told can and would be a federal offense. Below that... you have nothing. You loose your vehilce to the "shipping company" and you don't get your money. Run. Run fast. Tell him to come get it himself, you won't ship it, and you wont' take more than full price in CASH. No checks or cashiers checks.



Josh

 

[MMeier]

Go through this occasionally on the trailers I sell. I just simply tell the loser to call me when you get all the CASH. If someone can't afford $2500-$4000 for a trailer, ain't my problem. Tell "CHUCK" to go "*uck" himself!!!!

 

[Holysmokes]

Seems to me my buddy Partsman(TDR) just had the same thing happen to him. Might want to pm him and get the info. He has pretty good details on it. He did some checking out of the shipping company and I guess there is no such company.