topic Caravan going for a song..?? in Selling

Caravan going for a song..??

chasebroda — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:02:55 GMT

Someone has listed a Jayco 2007 caravan on my local buy, swap, sell. I contacted the person as it is so cheap - really too cheap. She emailed with a story, which may be genuine, saying husband tragically killed. She left for Alice Springs with new travel job. She said I would have to give name and address and eBay will arrange delivery with 5 days to view and decide. Has anyone heard of EBay doing these kind of deals/services?

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davewil1964 — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:45:47 GMT

Buy, sell, swap is a Facebook thing. Nothing to do with eBay.

Scam!

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:56:23 GMT

scam

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go-tazz — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:08:29 GMT

@chasebroda wrote:
Someone has listed a Jayco 2007 caravan on my local buy, swap, sell. I contacted the person as it is so cheap - really too cheap. She emailed with a story, which may be genuine, saying husband tragically killed. She left for Alice Springs with new travel job. She said I would have to give name and address and eBay will arrange delivery with 5 days to view and decide. Has anyone heard of EBay doing these kind of deals/services?

eBay are only a site to buy and sell they have nothing to do with the delivery of any item anywhere.

That scam has been going for a long time and it keeps getting used because there are still gullible people

that get caught out.

As you''ve said cheap,too cheap and that always means scam.

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1781anna — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:09:53 GMT

SCAM - came across similar thing. Was looking for a car (not on ebay) for my elderly father. found a 2015 Mazda CX3 for $8000 - too good to be true. Contacted seller who said he was advertising it for his sister as her house had burnt down in the bushfires and she needed money urgently. The car was supposedly at the ebay warehouse in a Melbourne suburb and if I gave them my details they would deliver the car to my address upon payment. Even received a nice email from Alex P the ebay Financial department manager. LOL Have reported to spoof@ebay.com.au Beware there is a lot of scumbags operating out there

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collect247 — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:24:22 GMT

These scammers must have heard how gullible some ebay buyers are and hope that one might bite.

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south.coffee — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:59:38 GMT

What is really interesting about the OP, is how stupid and gullible people still are, and when you see the stories on TV and online about people being fleeced out of their life savings I just laugh now.... a sucker is born every minute.

Enjoy your 'trip'.

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springyzone — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:34:02 GMT

@chasebroda wrote:
Someone has listed a Jayco 2007 caravan on my local buy, swap, sell. I contacted the person as it is so cheap - really too cheap. She emailed with a story, which may be genuine, saying husband tragically killed. She left for Alice Springs with new travel job. She said I would have to give name and address and eBay will arrange delivery with 5 days to view and decide. Has anyone heard of EBay doing these kind of deals/services?

I read quite a while back that something like 30% or so of all car ads are scams at the moment. That isn't just on ebay. That's on carsales, newspaper ads etc

The give away is the car is always 'interstate' when you enquire, or somehow not available to view, but can be delivered after payment.

The scammers just use photos from real ads but have nothing to sell.

I imagine that is true of caravans too.

So don't just be sceptical about this ad, be very careful across the board. Don't buy unless you can see the actual goods and paperwork.

The other giveaway this is a scam is the fact they said ebay will arrange delivery.

Plenty of people advertise in more than one place. So someone could put an ad on Facebook plus an ad in ebay. But in that case they would just write 'advertised elesewhere' and you would be able to see the ad on ebay too. How on earth could an item be 'delivered by ebay' if not even sold by ebay? Ebay doesn't deliver in any case. Australia Post does, or couriers do. Or people pick up items. Ebay is just a website where people advertise.

You sound as if you sort of know this is probably a scam but you're also sort of hoping this 'may be genuine'. Resist temptation.

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south.coffee — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:41:20 GMT

Carsales.com.au shows 199,222 cars for sale in Australia today - I think the 30% needs a FACTCHECK.

60,000 fraudulent car sales on that website and the Federal Police would be arresting every single staff member.

I could believe 3% though, but even that still seems a lot.

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*tippy*toes* — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 01:47:46 GMT

I'm going to bet that despite the replies here, the OP will go ahead and send money, then wait for the item to be delivered from the eBay warehouse.........

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springyzone — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:32:08 GMT

The 30% was definitely what i read as i recall being shocked at the time (a few years back).

How accurate it is, I have no way of knowing. It was an article in the Herald Sun, which is a daily newspaper here.

From memory, it didn't say every one of the ads was a scam as such (though it implied scams were common), it was saying that a lot of the ads, especially in newspapers, were found to be misleading and often that car was not available for some reason-maybe a scam, maybe already sold etc, but there to hook interest.

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brerrabbit585 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 06:58:36 GMT

The 30% could easily have been average, with only 5% on carsales but 55% on some other site. It wouldn't have been exactly 30% on every site.

I'd imagine that's one thing the Chinese don't list on ebay AU. Or do they???

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springyzone — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:24:46 GMT

I imagine it was a rough average. No idea how they came at it. Maybe they contacted sellers down a list to find out how many actually welcomed inspection and how many deflected them. I think the article said newspapers were the worst.

I also read a while back (same newspaper) that Caribbean Market, which is not far from me, was known as one of the worst in the world (which is what got my attention-not worst in Aust-worst in the world) as far as pirated movies, DVDs, that sort of stuff was concerned. Apparently just about every stall with them was selling fakes.

Now you'd think it would be an easy thing to have police swoop in etc and put a stop to it, but for some reason that was never successful. I'd say the report was probably true because a friend of mine bought some movies there for her husband and I recall she was surprised to find them on sale, had not realised they had been released.

Turns out they hadn't been.

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sa323226 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:10:26 GMT

did you get yr money back

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padi*0409 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:15:20 GMT

@sa323226 wrote:

did you get yr money back

Since the person you are repying to realised it was a scam, then there was no money to get back...........DUH

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designers*n*more — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:36:53 GMT

There's so many of them on FB selling cars too cheap,

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springyzone — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:55:28 GMT

And elsewhere. I think the key thing with cars. caravans, jetskis etc is you need to be able to see them in person and pick them up. If it is some car etc that is amazingly cheap and you're going to have to pay for it then have 'delivered' at a later date, steer clear. Scam.

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south.coffee — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 05:23:17 GMT

The scammers had a couple more out back...

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jadednoveau — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:19:24 GMT

This happened to me two days ago too, person selling a 2010 Daintree caravan for very cheap, claiming it was cheap to offload assets due to divorce, trying to gain trust by saying she worked away in the airforce. I’ve used eBay many years and they don’t have the capacity to “arrange” a long distance sale, there will be an eBay listing if being sold thru eBay. Steer very clear, don’t give out any information, and if it seems to good to be true it probably is.

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sandypebbles — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:26:34 GMT

It is a well know scam that has been around for at least 12 years

Hundreds of posts about it on the forum

110% scam

It is nothing to do with eBay in any way

Just part of the scammer's story

and amazing how many time what kind of 'car' they have changes