briancol 3 Report post Posted December 1, 2010 As most of you know, I am selling my vintage Daimler and have it advertised on Trade Me and eBay UK along with my email addy. I have so far received 3 different emails from prospective buyers from overseas. They are all out of their resident countries at the moment for various reasons, but want to buy the car at the asking price and have arranged an agent to pick up the car and export it overseas. They all want me to open a paypal account so that they can pay me. Personally I don't want to do this and have given them a seldom used bank account I have and asked them to deposit the money into it, but they refused and insist on using paypal only. I smelt a scam and googled paypal scams and found this. http://www.suite101.com/content/car-buying...-paypal-a215956 It seems that this is a scam and is quite prolific. They pay the money into your paypal account with a credit card, pick the vehicle up straight away then cancel the payment with the credit card company, so you have no car and no money. So beware. It seems that these people target sellers of cars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hybrid 1043 Report post Posted December 1, 2010 I would use a proper agency service brian .. it will cost you in fees but you can bypass the twats. That or look at maybe advertising it on classic car forums around the states etc etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5amchris 45 Report post Posted December 2, 2010 If they send the payment as a "GIFT" and then open a clam then remove the clam they cant get the money back but i still wouldn't trust it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deeveus 81 Report post Posted December 2, 2010 Kick them to touch, I get this all the time with selling especially higher end cars on TM. If they're serious parties, why can't they just use a bank account number??? <----< I think that just answered my own question. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
