Autotrader Scam?

[Cheggers]

Hi All,

 

I'm trying to sell the 159, and have it advertised on Autotrader for £3650. I've just received a text saying the following:

 

"Alfa Rome...still for sale? We offer £3500 GUARANTEED cash and will collect today! Visit www.sales-autotrader.com enter PURCHASE ID xxxxxxxxxx"

 

OK, I get it's a scam of some kind, but has anyone heard of these guys and know what they're up to? - I'm guessing they'll either ask for my bank details and clear me out, or turn up and offer waaaaay less than the £3500 in the text.

 

I love selling cars

[cort16]

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Obviously autotrader has felt their bums

 

 

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[Matt]

I put a car up on Auto Trader once and got a load of scam emails and texts, they make you pay for the pleasure of receiving them too. I won't be putting cars on there in the future, it's not worth it.

[brickwall]

Sound like they are trying to steal your details for future fraud.

[overrun]

DO NOT CONTACT US DIRECTLY SELLING ON BEHALF OF CUSTOMER

Use his personal e-mail address!!

 

Auotrader is a joke, for scams and hacked accounts.

[EssDeeWon]

Used autotrader a few times and never had any issues, cars all sold within a few days. I didnt enter my email address and I used their protected phone number.

[HillmanImp]

Auotrader Sellling cars on the internet is a joke, for scams and hacked accounts.

 

FTFY

[bub2006]

I put metro on Gumtree and within one hour I had two text messages. Instead of a number thougGh one said Richard and another Thomas

[Bren]

For me, the scam is as follows -

 

These people charge you for the privilege of advertising your vehicle with them.

 

You are at the mercy of the great unwashed, who will make you truly derisory offers, unless you are giving the bastard thing away anyway.

 

When they enquire as to if you sold it, and you reply in the negative, you are advised to be more realistic with the price.

 

This is what happened to me - I took great joy in pointing out that if they did'nt advertise so many bastard cars I may have stood a chance of selling mine.

 

Then ebay came along - same mouthbreathers, but poorer spelling.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Tell them to meet you under the arches at 3am with 3.5 grand and turn up with an Alsatian and a length of lead pipe.

[brickwall]

...and your mate hiding in the shadow.

[In The Pit]

You didn't have all this hacking and scamming with the print edition just lots of little black and white pictures, for anyone who wants to see 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' I recommend Auto Trader North West edition 18-25 July 1991.

[Sudsprint]

Oh for the good old days of Exchange & Mart

[Twiggy]

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What he said.

[Andrew353w]

Oh for the good old days of Exchange & Mart

[Rose coloured spectacles ON]

HAPPY DAYS!!! Buy a copy of E & M, sit yourself in a café on a Saturday morning with a mug of coffee (none of that latte/mocha/espresso-just Nescafé, milk & white sugar in a mug) get your pencil (wooden, not a bloody propelling one!) circle the ad you fancied and, using a stack of 2 & 10p pieces, ring the number from the payphone in the café. The sellers always answered & you popped round to see the motor that afternoon! [Rose coloured spectacles OFF!] 

 

This is my 666th posting.... Oops!

[JohnK]

As a kid (I'm talking back when I was 8, so well before being able to drive), all of my mate wanted comics or football sticker albums. My mam used to buy me the weekly copy of 'Auto Trader' mag and I used to flick through it with total excitement. I miss those days!

[quicksilver]

As a kid (I'm talking back when I was 8, so well before being able to drive), all of my mate wanted comics or football sticker albums. My mam used to buy me the weekly copy of 'Auto Trader' mag and I used to flick through it with total excitement. I miss those days!

You are me AICMFP. I used to read the Auto Trader at the age of 5-6 and never had any interest in kids' magazines.

[willswitchengage]

Yes it's a scam, any talk of the 'agent' coming to pick up your car. I can't remember the exact details of how it works but I remember being bombarded with such emails when I sold a normal car for about £3k once via autotrader.

[brownnova]

We used to have a small ads paper called 'Why' when I was a kid, I used to spend quite some time perusing the ads for sub £500 cars, or interesting motors...

 

Now I have EBay for that!!

[lisbon_road]

Last time I advertised a car on gumtree, I got more than one response from someone on a ship.  Said they wanted to buy it for a relative but could not come and see it.  Pay full asking price.  I just had to send this deposit or something.

 

Some poor soul somewhere must be gullible enough to fall for this stuff.  Trouble is you could do hundreds a day.

 

I sold it in the end though, happy with the price, you just have to hang in there.

[Partridge]

Autotrader is a bit hit and miss. I tried to sell a Ford Orion for a friend on there ages ago (before I was on here) and it sold three days later with no hassle at all. Miss Partridge tried selling her Saxo on there for £450 and was bombarded with scams texts, Mongs and WUD U GET MOT ON CAR GET 2NITE OK? In the end it got weighed in. Has to be better than Scumtree, but it's the sellers trying to rip you off/scam you you need to worry about on there.