Key Post Scams when selling or buying cars

[Brendan Burgess]

Any volunteers to summarise these threads to tell car sellers and buyers what to look out for?
Or would anyone write a short piece of dos and don'ts when buying or selling a car?

Selling your car

Offer to buy without seeing the car
ditto - but he will wait for the draft to clear, so it can't be scam, can it?

ExpressMatch.eu and other services which will find you a buyer


Buying a car

Check if there is finance outstanding on a car before you buy it
or you may have to pay off the loan
Another example

Car for sale but not available for viewing
ditto

Unbelievably cheap car for sale...in Liverpool
Unbelievably cheap car for sale



One owner not true if it's an imported car

43 pages of threads on scams on boards.ie