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.

 

 

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???

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.

 

 

did you get yr money back

 

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@sa323226 wrote:

did you get yr money back

 

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

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

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.

The scammers had a couple more out back...

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